Sentences with phrase «who takes him at face value»

We may read it, in the light of a long - established allegorical tradition, as a parable of deeper truths; but to the Jews of the fifth century BC, who took it at its face value, the Hebrew story, though not grotesque like the Babylonian, was too ingenuous and childlike to command the «reverence and godly fear» which belongs to all high religion.

While the data from Steam Spy was helpful to those who know how to crunch their numbers, it was misleading to those who took it at face value.

James Delingpole, who might perhaps best be described as a professional climate change denial journalist, published a rant on April 7, 2013, that combines inflammatory language, falsehood, and disingenuous «explanation'that, well, he doesn't really mean what he says and anyone who takes him at face value is either «dim» or a «professional offense - taker»:

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Bitcoin is an electronic currency, so merchants who receive it cash it in at its face value to pay salaries, bills or just take it home as profit.

To all of you who keep claiming this was about «not wanting to lose to a girl»: Why can't we simply take what this kid said at face value?

There's a lot of gross misinformation, and outright propaganda put out there by creationists aimed at just reassuring the opponents, who they count on to take what they say on face value.

There might be a Buddhist monk who has been in solitary meditation for 30 years who might know but nobody that takes religious texts at literal face value has any idea.

Taking at face value the unproven preached out by people who sell the word of God as their day job.

I'd say he got it right even if his wit is lost on some who would take his comments at face value.

If the Bible taken at face value can not be trusted, then Christianity is only for the elites who can nuance it just so.

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

If you don't take the Bible at face value, then look to men like Polycarp, Clement, and Ignatius who were taught by the Apostles, and read as much as you can about these men as well as what they themselves wrote.

In the same way, the words of the Mosaic Law, like those of all laws, are to be taken at face value by anyone who reads them.

He behaved like his forefather Adam who took the advice of his wife Eve at face value ignoring what God had told him.

It's pretty much only the Hasidim and select idiot Baptists who take the OT at face value.

As a food service supervisor you are able to see more of what goes on than most people who comment on these articles so I think comments coming from people who are on the front lines should be heard and taken at face value!

I am taking the word at face value... if there is some specialized definition that is more applicable, maybe somebody here who is qualified to comment can do so.

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.

Finally, the fact that 38 % of young people said they did not believe in a God or greater spiritual power, compared with 44 % who did, should not be taken at face value.

«If we take David Nicholson's almost unbelievable claim that he knew nothing about these major reports at face value, he has directed our attention to others to find out who buried these potent reports, putting Labour's political health above patient safety.»

Bloomberg's Edwin Chen, who heads the correspondents» association, responded by e-mail: «Taken at face value, Robert's high - minded offer went nowhere and is unworkable because the press is not monolithic — thank goodness.

And those like Edward, who don't just take a newspaper editorial at face value but are willing to expend the effort to seek out better information, are the rare exception.

Don't read between the lines, never play games and take everything at face value: Tracey Cox on the signs that say he really IS interested in you To answer the famous question: «Is he interested «a big plus for you would be learning how to spot the signs he's interested more easily, as it significantly escalates your opportunities of receiving dates, helps you avoid time wasting men who aren't really into you, and also helps you avoid being rejected.

Emmett is a lovable, ordinary construction worker Lego man who takes everything at face value.

Or, to take the whole enterprise at face value, is she a perfect narrative muse of a lingerie model who seductively chants Sigur Ros tunes to the ocean's depths as Colin Farrel is consigned to channeling profound sympathy with his eyebrows alone?

Not everything you read should be taken at face value, and there will be surprises in store, no matter who you believe.

In Anne Dodge's case, Falchuk immediately recalled how he had taken at face value the statements of the patient at NIH who was secretly using laxatives.

But instead of taking that at face value — despite the fact that Amazon has built itself into one of the most customer - centric entities in the retail space — those who hate the empire that it has become are determined that there is an ulterior motive, that the retailer is just throwing its weight around and outlining terms that will be adhered to at all costs.

Second, I have learned that people who love dogs are the people who can love all humans because they understand to look inside as opposed to taking someone at face value.

Thorp, who grew up with a house full of pets, said she's always loved animals because they take a person at face value and have unending, unconditional love.

I def see someone who lacks clear logical thinking and jumps on a conclusion without even fully understanding what he is saying... Guessing you just take things at face value and never delve deeper into the actual causes / effects of things.

Nonetheless, there are artists who still take the self - portrait at face value.

People hear from the people who are fully vested in the position of making a bundle off of this fear based Global Warming Situation and they take it at face value that what has been presented is paramount to anything else heard from anyone else closing themselves off to any other logical point of view.

So you haven't studied the evidence, but you take it at face value that someone who practices «normative science» is correct when he states that the case for atmospheric being a «boon» to calcifying marine life is equal if not more persuasive than the case that it will be harmful?

I'm very much the kind of person who wants to prove something for themselves rather than taking statements at face value.

Anyone who takes at face - value the advice to go for a walk and achieve «balance» with nature, won't be engaged in any serious attempt to either improve their own life or challenge problems in the real world, as much as they will be wishing them to just go away.

«People like Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt who sit up at the top of the climate food chain and take data from these weather stations at face value»...

People like Jim Hansen and Gavin Schmidt who sit up at the top of the climate food chain and take data from these weather stations at face value and then use it to extrapolate to nearby grid cells because there are no other nearby stations in the Arctic really need to get out more and see what the measuring environment is like.

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».

Only credulous, unquestioning, mouth breathing followers who believe everything Mann says in his own book would take it at face value.

Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value.

George can make all the appeals to scientific, institutional authority he pleases — the IPCC, scientific academies, peer - reviewed journals — but it makes no difference to people who lack the confidence in those institutions necessary to take their statements at face value.

Who could not form the impression that fat people were more responsible than the rest of us for the demise of the polar bear, if they took the magazine at face value?

The relationship between the ultimate cause (CO2) and ultimate effect (150,000 deaths from disease)-- which we have to take at face value, because the WHO have decided not to tell us how it was established — is contingent: things could have happened otherwise.

Somebody who does not engage with or challenge the debate but takes at face value the terms presented by politicians, the media, and instructions to recycle, etc..

We need people speaking from knowledge and expertise to begin to shift that big portion of the public who take denialist arguments at face value.

So you did see the claim in the IPCC report, and yet you, a science journalist, and someone who had spent 15 years researching water security, didn't think to investigate where the claim — that you had previously regarded as dubious, and controversial — had been substantiated, but decided to take at face value?

I realize that if you are facing imminent starvation and value your time at only $ 60 per hour, you are probably taking any client who will put an X on your retainer agreement, but those clients are also the least likely to pay you, so you need to get their money up front.

If we're to take their welcoming speech (August 2009) at face value, that audience is made up of people who are unable to process more than «one thought per sentence.»

Students in New York Law School's Program in Law and Journalism look at legal stories in the mainstream news media, evaluate the reporting, and probe further, questioning facts and statements in the coverage that someone who hasn't studied law might take at face value.