Sentences with phrase «to accept something at face value»

When you see something like this, don't just accept it at face value.

The modern reader accepts it all at face value without understanding this.

The rights will expire before I could even get a chance to begin delving into German security regulations, so I just might as well accept it all at face value.

While trying to take the «pro-life» claim seriously, I have not accepted it at face value, but rather have conducted research to find evidence.

It's equally foolish to accept it at face value and underestimate the great achievements of liberty and law that we as Americans rightly take pride in and must work to protect.

As such I must reflect on these principles further rather than accept them at face value.

I don't quite know what to think of their stories, but am inclined to accept them at face value, and find their explanations a «mystery».

It makes me sad that some parents today, still don't have the ability to look at their parent / child relationship, and accept it at face value.

Nestlé knows its response is inadequate, but it hopes that non-experts will accept it at face value, particularly those who want to be convinced that it is fine to invest in Nestlé, work with it or take its sponsorship.

Especially in a movie all about being clever — unless the fact that it's so stupid that only a backwards idiot would accept it at face value is its clever poke.

Everything he says is hard to believe, but he's so matter of fact about the film's bizarre upcoming events that you have no choice but to accept it at face value.

Power phrases were brief sentences that, on the surface, just seemed to make so much sense that a potential life insurance buyer would accept it at face value.

We often subconsciously notice changes, but if we don't stop to really be aware, we tend to accept them at face value and not question what they mean in the bigger picture.

He has also been known to defended Senran Kagura from those who only want to accept it at face value.

So if you are reading blogs like this, and especially if you are following discussions on LinkedIn groups where there are way too many posters who are as phony as a $ 7 bill, you need to investigate who is offering the advice before you accept it at face value.

It makes me sad that some parents today, still don't have the ability to look at their parent / child relationship, and accept it at face value.