Sentences with phrase «readers took them at face value»

If it's not already evident, they were completely fabricated, and played for laughs, although there was always the suspicion that some readers took them at face value.

Not exact matches

In that book he repeatedly cautions the reader not to take Whitehead's language at face value, since Leclerc is sure that Whitehead could not mean what the language says.

The struggle that people within the industry face as we try to pitch your book to everyone else in the value chain — sales teams, marketers, booksellers, and ultimately readers — is why the gatekeepers at the very beginning of the chain (the literary agents) have to be so very selective about the authors we take on.

What I didn't want was for the reader to take things at face value.

If Moneyweek readers all through 2013 and 2014 took everything that Bonner and / or Moneyweek wrote at face value, they have missed out on record breaking highs on simple indices like the S&P 500.

Employers are not expected to be mind - readers and are entitled to take what they are told by employees at face value — useful guidance where employees are often reluctant to admit they are not coping.

Your average tabloid reader wants to read something lightweight that he or she can take at face value and does not require much mental acuity, whereas a Times or Journal reader requires facts and substance.