Dictionary: Face
Synonyms: countenance, physiognomy, profile, features, expression, facial expression, look, appearance, air, manner, bearing, guise, cast, aspect, impression, grimace, scowl, wry face, wince, frown, glower, smirk, pout, moue, side, flank, vertical, surface, plane, facet, wall, elevation, dial, display, (outward) appearance, nature, image, front, show, act, false front, facade, exterior, mask, masquerade, pretence, charade, pose, illusion, smokescreen, veneer, camouflage, respect, honour, esteem, regard, admiration, approbation, acclaim, approval, favour, appreciation, popularity, estimation, veneration, awe, reverence, deference, recognition, prestige, standing, status, dignity, glory, kudos, cachet, effrontery, audacity, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, look out on, front on to, look towards, be facing, have/afford/command a view of, look over/across, open out over, look on to, overlook, give on to, give over, be opposite (to), accept, come to accept, become reconciled to, reconcile oneself to, reach an acceptance (of), get used to, become accustomed to, adjust to, accommodate oneself to, acclimatize oneself to, be confronted by, be faced with, encounter, experience, come into contact with, run into, come across, meet, come up against, be forced to contend with, beset, worry, distress, cause trouble to, trouble, bother, confront, burden, brave, face up to, meet head-on, dare, defy, oppose, resist, withstand, cover, clad, skin, overlay, dress, pave, put a facing on, laminate, inlay, plate, coat, line
Antonyms: dodge, fear, back, give way, back down, dodge, avoid, throw in the towel, withdraw, cave in, retreat, succumb to, lay down one's arms, throw in the sponge, defer, submit, escape, bashfulness, shun, evade, elude
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
Camille Paglia
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.
Charles Stanley
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
David Wilkerson
Oh! Much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay And much may be gained by relying On "Where there's a Will There's a Way."
Eliza Cook
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.
Mme. Jeanne Roland
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
Nadine Gordimer
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire
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Albert G. Butzer III
... program can be a huge help. Now if only we could persuade the participants to wear numbers on the backs of their dresses and tuxedos! Something like a wedding program would help us understand today’s scripture from Matthew. Jesus’ story is a parable that defies easy explanation. In fact, it is what scholars call “an allegorical parable,” which means that things in the story actually stand for other things. It’s hard enough to make sense of the plain meaning of the story; it’s even more so when ...
441. Are you a G.O.A.T.?
Matthew 25:31-46
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Lori Wagner
... and sweet-tempered animals, goats are characterized as arrogant, mercurial, independent, strong-willed, destructive, and self-serving creatures. While sheep recognize a Shepherd’s voice and will submit to direction and caring, goats on the other hand, will often defy the shepherd’s guidance, kick, go rogue, and frequently jump the fence. While Israeli goats and sheep look surprisingly similar and dwell in the same flocks, their personalities and behavior define them as radically different animals. These ...
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King Duncan
... 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four American jets with passengers aboard and crashed them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The terrorists also intended to crash a plane into the U.S. Capitol, but passengers on board that flight defied the hijackers and the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania instead. That morning, as reports of the devastating attacks came into the Federal Aviation Commission’s offices, their National Operations Manager, Ben Sliney, made a critical decision. The ...
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Timothy W. Ayers
... after it, struck it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it, and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine” (I Samuel 17:34-37). A good shepherd protects his sheep. The disciples were well acquainted with ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... wage raucous war against each other, those of us who see no conflict between faith and science are as ones crying in the wilderness that there is another way, a viable and rational way of interpreting these texts from our scriptures, a way that does not defy reason or scientific observation. When we take all 72 of the New Testament texts together, as a whole, we see that the kingdom of God is not necessarily a physical place, neither is it solely a reality that comes to us only after we die. The kingdom ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... part, ignored by the church. We Christians have been taught, and we have passed on the erroneous lesson, that faith has to do with believing things that are hard to believe, things for which there is no physical evidence, things that seem to defy objective, scientific explanation. We have equated faith with belief. Unfaith, we have said, is the refusal to believe a thing that “should” be believed, as though we can force ourselves to believe things that, for all the world, seem to us unbelievable. This ...
446. God Think
Mark 8:27-38
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Lori Wagner
... they knew. Peter was sure he knew. When Jesus explained that the Human One would suffer and be rejected, then be killed, and then rise from the dead, Peter not only opposed Jesus, but he grabbed him, he began talking him down, arguing and defying him, trying to correct him. “How can you say something like that!” Peter may have said. “We are not going to let that happen!” most likely said the defensive and protective Peter. “Stop talking nonsense,” he may have exclaimed. “This is not what we ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... that we are redeemable. Jesus’ companions were the ordinary people of society. The ultimate radical idea of Jesus versus the cultural and religious society of the day was that of compassion and love for others. He calls us to live with the adventurous faith that defies the world. It means follow-the-leader of purity and heart holiness, not the cadence of the culture of leadership of today’s society. It is an abandonment of lifeless mundane living to a life of reckless joy that comes as Jesus breaks the ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... person must be protected, but not to the point of abolishing the distinctions between his divine and human natures. So it is with God’s presence: We need the “golden” mean here too. We need to find a way to affirm both the spirituality of (defying his absolute identification with anything that is institutional and physical) and also the incarnational nature of our Lord. We want to affirm his presence in Christ, in the church, in the Bible, in preaching, and in worship. But we also want to affirm with ...
449. The Howling
Acts 2:1-21 · John 14:8-17, 25-27
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Lori Wagner
... a tale about noises in the night or a peculiarly powerful storm. It’s a ghost story. A true story. A relaying of unexpected events within a room full, no a town full, of people with a boatload of witnesses, an experience that defied all reality, a recorded testimony about an unexplained, uncanny manifestation of a Spirit that not only spooked those present but changed their lives completely thereafter. A phenomenon so weird that it startled an entire city and started an entire movement. Are you spooked ...
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Lori Wagner
... the bone do so because they are so entirely devoid of empathy, compassion, human connection, or conscience.Evil issues in attributes opposite of those we attribute to God. True evil exists both in the opposition and absence of God. Evil is surreptitious. It defies God by being sneaky and preying on the helpless. It threatens God’s creation. And yet it is subordinate to God. Here is what we see Jesus showing us in no uncertain terms in today’s scripture. That no matter how perverse, damaging, insidious ...
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