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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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... grace under pressure." He is implacable and confident. He gazes the valley with an Arctic stare. While leading the people down the hill, glints of victory besparkle the eyes of those who are marching. How strange! They march for war, but bear no arms. What nerve! They are going to battle, but have no armor! No chariots, no horses, no instruments of war! With joy songs in their hearts and trumpets resting on the shoulders of the clergy, they are walking to the tunes and shouts of a spiritual victory. "Joshua ...
77. Hostage Crisis
1 Kings 19:1-8
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... of God are taken prisoner by evil and spiritual decadence, where souls have sold out to Satan; where the spiritually anointed are held captive by their own vices, devices, and perverse longings. It is a crisis of flesh and blood, of fear and trembling; a failure of nerve; where the things of God that are good are warring to prevent the things that are of Satan from taking over their minds and souls. The hostage crisis we face today is far greater than any political act of terrorism, for it is a crisis which ...
78. The Interview
Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42
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Larry Goodpaster
... as captive. Now, because of the traffic, and because that driver had not known which building was hers, she was late for her appointment. She would be forced to wait until she could be “worked in” as the receptionist put it. She kept trying to calm her nerves with the thought that none of this was her fault really. The flight from her home that morning had gone without a hitch: left on time, smooth flight, and arrived on time. It was that van and its overweight, non-stop-talking driver! Even though it ...
79. Saved By Grace
Exodus 32:1-33:6
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Walter Kimbrough
... that sin will someday just go away. The church has to aggressively do battle with sin. The first family, Adam and Eve, got caught in the sin trap. The outward appearance of sin is not ugly, but rather is very beautiful. It is easy on the optic nerve. The salivary glands are stimulated and the desire of the heart is intensified. Sin gets your attention and causes you to want the very thing that will destroy you. Obviously, the time in the center of the garden was fabulous to the eye and Satan took advantage ...
80. The Dreamer Within You
Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32
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Richard Hasler
... the story of a Hebrew scholar and teacher who is conscious that the work he does is difficult. It is not painless to motivate students to engage in a disciplined study of the Scriptures. Furthermore, the kind of teaching he does touches the raw nerves of faith and sometimes visibly shakes the students to their core. Consequently, he tells his students: “All beginnings are hard… Especially a beginning that you make by yourself. That’s the hardest beginning of all.”1 When my wife and I arrived on the ...
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Robert Beringer
... before Christmas and during the holidays really serves to keep us apart rather than truly bringing us together. Perhaps you recall that one home where on a hectic night-before-Christmas the father was busy with bundles and chores and upset over the bills. Mother's nerves were frayed. The litte daughter was constantly in the way, no matter what she did. Finally she was sent off to bed with some harsh words and a hasty "Good Night." As she prayed the Lord's Prayer alone before going to sleep, the high-pitched ...
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John Jamison
... . Besides, the rest is a haze anyway. He went on talking about somebody coming after him, or following him, or something or other, but I guess I quit listening. I edged my way to the rear of the crowd and started walking up the road. I didn't have the nerve to put on the jacket that hung around my waist, somehow it felt too much like a long, purple robe. And I would eat when I reached the privacy of my own house. No, some follower wasn't on my mind during that trip home, and not even now that ...
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Theodore F. Schneider
... are not always offered to God: Jesus makes an interesting observation. "The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself." While I do not believe or intend to suggest that this is a major point of the parable, it does touch upon a sensitive nerve for this pastor. More than once I have wondered whether our public prayers are summaries of the morning sermon or lectures to the conscience of the worshiping community rather than intercessions to our Father. Wilham Barclay quotes an account of a Boston newspaper ...
84. Wounded Glory
John 20:24-31
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Erskine White
... with saw and hammer. There were the hands of Christ the healer, radiating sensitivity and compassion." "Then there were His crucified hands. It hurts me to think about the soldiers driving nails through His hands because I know what would happen to the nerves and tendons. His healing hands became crippled and gnarled, twisted shut on the cross." "Finally," the doctor continued, "there were His resurrected hands. You and I think of Paradise as a place of perfection, but when Jesus was raised up from the dead ...
Drama
Edward Long
... and despair of that couple. They hit on the idea because as children both of them had wanted simple gifts they never got: Mrs. McKenzie, a flute to play at church; Mr. McKenzie, a wind-up train with cars and a circle of track. You don't know how much nerve it took for the old man to come here ... but I hope you feel their love at this holy season. Be glad, Laura, be glad for this gift of love ... LAURA: I, I don't know what to say. I didn't know ... RAG DOLL #1: Of course you didn ...
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Johnny Dean
... the Pharisees loved and tried to protect. What started out as the body of Christ has quite contentedly taken on the form of a political body, with power structures and, sadly, power struggles no different from the world in which it lives. And we still have the nerve to say, "Let’s keep politics out of the church?" The truth is that after almost 2,000 years we still just don’t get it! Like the Pharisees, we’re still convinced that Jesus had some kind of hidden agenda, and if we can just figure ...
Drama
William Grimbol
... clean dishes. JULIE: Are you saying that my father isn't a good person? PETER: No. I'm saying that is what he meant. JULIE: He even attacked father for choosing the chief seats in the synagogue. JENA: A seat he earned. JULIE: He certainly did. JENA: The nerve. PETER: My father says that the reason why he is so against the Pharisees is because they don't do anything for anyone but themselves. CHRIS: My parents both feel that way. Last night I heard them say at dinner that the Pharisees do nothing for the ...
88. Giving Away the Store
Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17
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Carl Jech
... and self-esteem. In his famous classic, The Golden Bough, Sir James G. Frazer suggests that religion itself originated from some primitive notion that the gods must be appeased. Frazer's idea is that religion in most of its forms represents a failure of nerve on humankind's part. Originally, primitive peoples tried to manipulate the gods, "the powers that be," to do their bidding through magical rituals that were designed to force the gods to give them what they wanted. When the magic failed to work, people ...
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James Angell
... is neutral. We are waiting for Godot, but not sure we would recognize him if he appeared. Yet we remain sure of this: That if our will fails, if our imagination remains impoverished, if we cannot find ways to stop ourselves from killing each other and get our moral nerve back, a basic dream may die. And where we are trying to get back to is to being a people who are not intimidated by our times, and who would not trade places with any other people or time in history. So we pray: God breathe upon us once ...
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Dr. John Thompson Peters
... is too often represented as regarding money as "evil" but necessary. The church apologizes for her need for money and again and again compromises the truth by making ridiculous statements about her need for money under a meretricious spiritual facade. Modern man's most sensitive nerve is his pocketbook and it is quite clear that the church has failed him in not having given more direct teaching in this area where he lives most of the time. If these things be true, the time is over-ripe for a factual and ...
Drama
Robert A. Lehmann
... , if you can't pay the money, I will put you in prison till you can. That money is mine and you will repay me. Solo 3: That scoundrel! Solo 4: What's 10,000 talents ($10,000,000) compared to 100 denarii ($2,000)? Solo 3: Of all the nerve. Solo 4: He forgot, maybe? Solo 3: How could he? Solo 4: What a schnook! Narrator: When the other servants saw all that had happened, they were greatly distressed and they went and reported to their lord all that had taken place. Solo 4: He deserves to be punished! Solo ...
92. Museum or Mission?
Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , we all became noticeably hesitant as the process moved toward a decision point. Suddenly, we discovered all sorts of denominational heritage and history that seemed threatened, wondered how our particular styles of polity might fare in a united church, and generally lost nerve in the face of growing resistance toward mission over museum at the grass-roots level. In the same city where can be found the church, with whose story we began, there is another church that made the opposite choice. It didn’t ...
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... or Get Rehabilitated?" It was a rather familiar story about a drunken driver who smashed into another car, hospitalizing a pregnant woman who, six hours after the accident, gave birth to a stillborn child. The woman also suffered a broken arm, a broken right leg, nerve damage to her left leg and a pelvis broken in four places. The twenty-two-year-old driver of the car that hit her was subsequently convicted of his second offense of drunken driving and "driving while his license was suspended." He had also ...
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... and faith. She had come to him and had done what she did simply because she wanted to get rid of her past and begin a new life. When Heywood Broun, the newsman, was asked why he had joined the church - was it out of intellectual inquiry or failure of nerve? - he said, "I wanted to get rid of my sins." The weeping woman knew that she needed God’s forgiveness for the way that she had been living if the rest of her life was to have any meaning. Repentance is always turning one’s back on the past as ...
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... t seem to understand or care. He had no conscience for justice. But the widow kept on coming in the hope that by persistence she could wear him down, and he would have to settle the affair to get her off his neck. Finally, when she had made his nerves raw with her pest-like pleading, he yielded, settled in her favor, vindicated her. Is God like that? And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I ...
96. The Yoke of Christ
Matthew 11:25-30
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... to live. But so often we make even the simplest and most beautiful things of life a burden - things like marriage and sexual love and the family and working with others. We often end up with a yoke that doesn't fit very well. It rubs at the neck. The nerves become sensitive, the skin grows raw. The picture of history has often been one of a bleeding humanity. And all the time an easier way is waiting for us. A gracious Lord is offering us a lighter load. So courage to all of us today as we dare to take ...
97. Angry Hands
Psalm 26:1-12
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... rises up in you, take just one moment to ask yourself the question, "Why am I angry? What is it that is making me so mad? Is it the fact that I'm embarrassed by the situation? Is it that I'm tired and my children are getting on my nerves? Is it that I'm threatened by a situation in my life that I'm afraid? Is anger serving as a way for me to cover over my fear? Or, is it that I see a sign with which I am unhappy and displeased and therefore rightly angered? Why am ...
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Joe Pennel
... years of danger and effort. If I had not come here this might never have happened. I might still be sitting in another hobo jungle. A tuning fork (usad by the physician) whose vibrations not even the bone would pick up had clarified this. My God, the nerve must be gone. ‘Face it, face it, face it. You’re never going to hear again.’ The tortured, straining features of my mother came back to me. How long before I turned paranoid, before ..."48 Sooner or later, most of us have good reasons, from our ...
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... very long with the lepers there before he began to realize that the prevailing ideas about the nature of the disease called leprosy were just wrong. Perhaps his most important discovery was that since lepers could not feel pain because the disease had killed their nerve endings, they were destroying their fingers, toes and arms because they were not warned by sensations of pain when they smashed or burned their hands or feet. He began to look at the total problem of leprosy, how it affected the body and the ...
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Harold Warlick
One of the most nerve-wracking experiences in life is finding a place to live. It's as true for college students as it is for older adults. Everyone at some time or another has to house hunt, roommate hunt, room hunt or apartment hunt. In fact, one of the biggest changes in life occurs ...
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