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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Louis H. Valbracht
... and powerful, and the average went up to 142 pounds. They were stronger than they even knew they were consciously. The confident, courageous self can take us a lot farther than we ever dreamed. Again and again I see people rally in emergencies, when love demands it, and display almost superhuman strength. I can remember one of our lieutenants on Iwo Jima who was first of all hit in the shoulder by a bullet. He ignored that, led his men on the assault. Then he stepped on a land mine. It blew both of his legs ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... arrive on the scene, you remember the rebuke of Mary and Martha: "If you had been here, our brother would not have died. But you didn’t LISTEN to our prayer." They didn’t realize that God, through Christ, had passed the miracle of healing to display the greater miracle of resurrection from the dead. Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine, prayed earnestly that her son would remain in Carthage. She didn’t want him to go to Rome lest he fall into wicked ways and never become a Christian. But Monica didn ...
503. The Forgotten
Matthew 1:18-25
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Theodore L. Yewey
... the traditional rituals we all share in is the decorating of the various rooms with things that have special sentimental significance for us all. Over the years we have accumulated a number of unique scenes of the Nativity. We generally try to have several of these displayed in various places to remind us not only of the beautiful story of the birth of Jesus, but also to call our attention to the wide variety of ways Ihis story is told by various artists. One of our favorite nativity scenes is a large white ...
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Theodore L. Yewey
... Perhaps! An exclusive interview with a publisher? Maybe! But back to their ordinary life? Unbelievable! Yet this is exactly what the story says. And moreover they returned glorifying and praising God. There is that within me that really wants to conclude this sermon with an urging to display this same attitude as we leave Christmas this year. But I cannot and still be true to the story. For there is in this story no final urging to be good no saying to go an do likewise. There is no call to change the ways ...
505. Extended Light
1 Corinthians 7:29-31
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William F. Dunkle
... this man was the son of God!" War began to go out of business in that very moment. Oh yes, nations still have vast armaments to be sure. But go to Whitehall in London and visit the museum where all the uniforms of British troops are displayed. Scarlet and gold braid have gone away. All that’s left for soldiers to wear is olive drab or snake-like camouflage. The glory and glamor of war has passed away. Everybody everywhere hates it! The form of the world is changing. Jesus came. That changed everything ...
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George Bass
... so loudly an usher threatened to order us out of the theatre." He adds, "On the face of it, that is the kind of emotional reaction to this scene one would expect - pity, sobbing pity for Jesus, the innocent Victim, helplessly nailed to a cross, his body displayed in full view of every profane eye, a hideous burlesque ... and the cross on which he hung only the Supreme unveiling of human injustice."8 But, of course, God was there and, indeed, there was more to it than that which meets the eye and assaults ...
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Larry Powell
... Spirit, the forward march of the church, the eventual compiling of the scriptures, and the Spirit of God moving powerfully, even yet, upon the lives of those who have embraced the signs, received the Spirit, and endorsed the covenant. We speak now not of an ancient display of color in the sky, long since faded from the horizon, nor of the symbol of a Cross which, fad-like, appeared briefly in the distant mists of the past, but of living, dynamic signs. The bow is still in the clouds. The Cross still hangs ...
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Larry Powell
... unthinkable infractions. Ovid, an ancient poet, tells of a gifted young sculptor of Cyprus named Pygmalion. Pygmalion despised women and resolved never to marry. Ironically, he set about with hammer and chisel to produce the statue of a woman in order to display it as a mockery. For many days, and frequently well into the night, he chiseled. A form began to emerge which arrested him. The blows from the hammer became softer now. Finesse and devotion occupied his every movement. Beneath his skillful fingers ...
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Richard L. Eslinger
... we all know that our culture has been celebrating their "Christmas" for a long time now. K-Mart has been playing Christmas carol music for weeks, and the blue light moved to the Christmas ornament aisle after it had been converted from the Halloween display. For months now, it seems that our culture has been pouring sentimental Christmas syrup over us. Now we know [tonight, today] that all that stuff wasn’t really Christmas - some ad agency’s version, maybe; but it wasn’t Christmas - because there was ...
510. Come Home!
Isaiah 60:1-22
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Richard L. Eslinger
... have bulged this week too, overfilled with boxes and paper, waiting to be taken away. Christmas trees are lying down, out in the yard, still streaked with some tinsel. The Advent wreathes are packed away with the tree lights, and the remaining Christmas displays seem oddly present. We are returning to "the real world": business, and war, as usual; a world of darkness, and not light. Isaiah was right in his prophecy. Whatever else, darkness has come over the earth. There is a "thick darkness" which covers ...
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Richard L. Eslinger
... hear the argument of Job’s friends and we accept it. We don’t particularly like the way their computer print-out reads, but we accept it as gospel truth anyway. So whenever suffering is encountered, it is a sure thing that God’s wrath is being displayed right in front of us. But we’re not so different than most everybody when it comes to this solidarity with Job’s friends. It’s rare when some other explanation of suffering is given! A mother looks down at her child lying sick in bed. The fever ...
512. A Grief Observed
2 Samuel 18:19--19:8
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Roger Prescott
... and merriment may be gone too. But sorrow becomes more like a minor chord in a symphony which, with the jubilant majors, combines to make a rich melody. We do not belabor Paul’s memory, nor avoid it. I occasionally wear his sweaters. We keep his pictures on display. Even his oar is resting against our bookcase, the oar he used in the Henley Regatta in the summer of 1960. It is at Christmas time that we miss him most. There are no presents for him or from him, nor his Christmas letter. We speak of what ...
513. Paul of Tarsus
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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Michael L. Sherer
... commitment than the Christian congregation he belonged to. Of course, he might not have been paying much attention to what the congregation was really saying - or was really all about - but if he was right, his congregation had forgotten the sort of commitment that was displayed by the daredevil who wrote half the books in the New Testament. ANTAGONIST: Another thing - why couldn’t Paul have lived and let live? I mean, there’s room for all sorts of folks in this big world of ours. What business did he ...
514. Memories
Luke 2:21-40
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Daniel G. Mueller
... all the other photos of baby’s first haircut, first birthday, first bike ride, and the like, there’s also that one picture, that infamous photo showing off baby’s buns. Parents love to have at least one such photo; but the individual whose anatomy is so displayed grows up living in fearful dread that one day his girlfriend or her boyfriend will actually see that awful picture. It’s fun to look through a box of old pictures and to relive all those memories. There’s a picture of Mom and Dad when ...
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Alton F. Wedel
... ! The gospel is a call to faith. It is an affirmation in the face of everything that seems to contradict it that "the Lord has saved his people." It needs no support or proof in giant social action programs, ecumenical alliances, or ecclesiastical displays. It needs nothing but the Promise. The seed grows secretly. The still, small voice still speaks. The Promise doesn’t say that God’s saved people would return like conquering heroes, but like bedraggled exiles, common folk in all the circumstances of ...
516. The Flow of Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
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Gregory J. Johanson
... of them; but every river is narrow in some places and wide in others; here swift and there sluggish, here clear and there turbid; cold in winter and warm in summer. The same may be said of men. Every man bears within himself the germs of every human quality, displaying all in turn; and a man can often seem unlike himself - yet he still remains the same man.1 That seems to be the way it is with all of us. Things are generally in motion, whether we recognize it or not. It often surprises me to discover that ...
517. The Vulnerable Christ
Philippians 2:1-11
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Gregory J. Johanson
... is one by the magnificent conception in Saint Peter’s or Saint Patrick’s replica in Manhattan. The one in Rome was ironically broken and defaced by vandals several years ago, but since, its wounds have been repaired by expert craftspeople and it is on display again. What I want to say can be put in a proposition: The healer is not above being hurt any more than Jesus was spared the cross; the conception, birth, death, and resurrection of our Lord prefigure our natural death and provide the means of ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... writers in the world were to shovel sand nonstop they couldn't shovel a million billion billion grains of sand in a lifetime, says Timothy Ferris in his book, The Mind's Sky. Add to that the fact that the universe of today is displayed across ten billion trillion trillion cubic light years of space after expanding from a hot little spark smaller than an atom -- or so say some astrophysicists (Ferris, p. 84). Yes, Christmas Eve does draw us outward and upward toward the vast, the infinite, the external ...
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Harold Warlick
... they began to feed little Paul a good diet, he became friendlier. The Adams family members became hopeful. But as the weeks passed, their hopes disappeared.4 As Paul learned the language, he began to lie incessantly. He began to steal. He displayed no affection toward either Mr. or Mrs. Adams. He was totally indifferent toward the mother and father. However, he did develop a deep friendship with little Sammy Adams. One day, in direct violation of instruction, Paul Piotrastanalsis went swimming in a polluted ...
520. Old Favorite
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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Harold Warlick
... no sense of worthiness, he went to live in a foreign country. But he found no love there, either. He married a girl, who had herself been an illegitimate child, and brought her back to America. She developed the same contempt for him that everyone else had displayed. She demanded more than he could provide and became his most vicious opponent. Finally, she forced him to leave. He tried to make it on his own, but he was terribly lonely. He went home and begged her to take him back. He crawled. He came back ...
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John W. Wurster
... God loves us, we can love one another. Because God is committed to us, we can commit ourselves to one another, to spouses and friends and family, commit ourselves to our vocations, to our church, to God. In fact, only because God is faithful to us are we able to display faithfulness in our own lives. That struck me as something very important, very exciting at the time. I guess it still does. Oh for a god who didn’t care, a god who didn’t get involved, a god who would just leave us alone. Oh for a god ...
522. True or False?
Isaiah 1:1-31
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John W. Wurster
... as long as it feels good? Have you been to Sodom lately? I wonder if you’d recognize it. People spend lots of time and even more money pursuing pleasure. Sex has become a social craze. The most intimate of actions are widely displayed and intensely viewed. The society seems to demand a constant supply of bodies to watch and pursue. Voyeurism is rampant. Lust is a commodity. Sex pervades the marketplace, the politics, the entertainments of a culture whose indiscretions have no boundaries. That’s what ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... the author reveals a studied approach to the faith that reveals his struggles with the great questions that can trouble us all. Obviously quite satisfied with the strength that he gains from his faith, Mr. Buckley has refrained from making a public display of religious language in the public debates he enjoys immensely. When Buckley was asked by his publisher to write about his faith, his publisher suggested the title, “Why I am Still a Catholic.” Buckley flinched at that, because that suggests there is ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... a silver spoon in his mouth. Joseph was especially favored by his wealthy sheik father, because he was the firstborn by Rachel, who was Jacob’s first love and favorite wife. Jacob did nothing to hide his preference for his son Joseph and blatantly displayed his favor by giving Joseph the famous coat of many colors. Joseph may have been unaware that this special treatment was odious to his brothers. Or it could be that he paraded his father’s partiality for him with some abandon. The brothers accused ...
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James W. Moore
... have it. It’s my way of saying, ‘Thanks.’” The doctor took the teddy bear and shook the little boy’s hand and wished him well. For a long time after that… on the 10th floor of the White Building of Massachusetts General Hospital, there was on display… a teddy bear, bursting at the seams with a chewed-off ear and one eye. And there was a sign under it written in the hand of that surgeon. It read: “This is the highest fee I have ever received for professional services rendered.” (Thanks to ...
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