Sentences with phrase «try taking it at face value»

So, the next time a close friend or a romantic partner tells you something complimentary, try taking it at face value.

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They take it at face value and do not try to sugar coat what it says or explain it away.

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.

I do not think it is a case of being «unwilling» to wait, I think if we take it at face value, they're trying to be pro-active.

However, perhaps it is worth taking at face value the claim by Peter Mandelson in his plea for «no more Falkirks» that he is «trying to defend the rights of grassroots members of the -LSB-...]

«For centuries philosophers have taken intuitions at face value and tried to find theories that conformed to those intuitions,» Greene says.

If you take any information from this website or any website at face value and go try it without medical or professional supervision, you can and very well might get what is coming to you, including death, injury, disability, loss of your birthday, or being sent out to sea.

It'll be uncomfortable at first but try to stay in the moment and take the date at face value.

However, taking things at face value, this is still a nicely performed and thought out film that actually has some integrity and intelligence — remarkable for a follow - up that is obviously an attempt by the movie studio to try to capitalize.

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.

Don't just take how much you pay for each bill at face value - you can try and reduce these spends by haggling.

MARK LECKEY — Yes, but the trouble is that in art, if you try to make something quite direct, people aren't going to take that directness at face value.

An article with a distorted quote from a climate report published in 2008 and with an alleged quote by Phil Jones in the third person about himself coming from second or third hand, a crowd of «skeptics» in the comment section, including you, who are taking all of this at face value without doing any fact checking and who see themselves confirmed in their preconceived views by this, and you are trying to sell this to me now as «common knowledge».