Sentences with phrase «complicated than its face value»

In «The Glass Castle,» the conflict is multi-layered and a lot more complicated than its face value.

Not exact matches

I know CR7 is a far more important player to them than Santi is to us, but finding his replacement would be a very difficult task, I just don't understand the need for us to complicate our transfer window because we're getting # 5 - 10m extra than his face value (according to you anyway).

At face value, the phrase compensating factor seems to have a common sense meaning (an element of a credit application that is so strong that it offsets something weaker in the application) but it's more complicated than that.