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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... came out this calf!" (If you can believe that, I've got a piece of beach-front property in Idaho that I'll sell you real cheap!) The bull calf they danced around was a blatant disobedience. You can never truly worship God and flagrantly defy his commandments. If you broke one of the Ten Commandments last night, or last week, you cannot truly worship God without having first genuinely repented. Flagrant disobedience calls for earnest sorrow for sin. That's why we have a confession of sins in the worship ...
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D. Wayne Burkette
... blow it! Enjoying, taking care of, and working in the vineyard are not enough. The tenants want more. They want to own it. Their desire runs through stages of increasing greed. They kill the servants whom the householder sends to collect the rent. They defy the householder at every turn, until finally, no alternative is left to the householder except to send the son. "My son," thinks the householder, "will command their respect; they will listen to him." But they don’t. Instead, they kill the son as they ...
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Harold Warlick
... a great amount of power. I mean, if we don't all get together we might have to rely on some power greater than our own, and then where would we be? If we don't all join hands and create a community so strong, unified and secure as to defy trouble, who is the god who can deliver us? Nebuchadnezzar's question leaps over the chasm of time and space to demand an answer: "What god can deliver you?" Jesus made it plain to us. When he knelt in prayer for the last time with his little handful of friends ...
129. Epiphany 6
Deuteronomy 30:11-20
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... his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances." They know the "joy of the Lord" and what the "good life" is all about. 2. Disobedience is destructive of any right and lasting relationship with God, and also of any real quality of life. The disobedient not only defy God by the way they live, but they destroy themselves in the process. Seeking out the "good life," as the world defines it, is a way of losing the really "good life." 3. Jesus lived the "good life" - perfectly; He is the only person to do ...
Drama
... took corn and bread and cheese to his brothers. And as he talked with his brothers, up came the champion of the Philistines, Goliath. And all the men of Israel, when they saw this giant of a man, fled. David, angry, said, "Who is this Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" And despite the scorn of his brothers, David determined to fight Goliath. He said, "The Lord who, on the hills of Bethlehem, delivered me out of the paw of the lion and the bear will deliver me out of the hand of ...
131. Easter 7
John 17:1-5
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... our planet and the death of its inhabitants. We fill its air with pollutants and its waters with waste; we deplete the earth's resources, and even turn some of these into weapons of hideous destruction. Forgive us our death-dealing ways, O God, and sensitize us to the death-defying nature of your will and your Word. Help us to follow the example of Jesus in sowing life instead of death, and in bringing life out of death. In his name we pray. Amen
132. Proper 9
Exodus 1:1-22
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... in the face of abused political authority. The omitted verses here (15-21) tell of first the Jewish midwives who refuse to cooperate. Then Moses' mother and sister conspire successfully to save him. Even Pharoah's daughter, out of sheer human compassion, knowingly defies her father's cruel orders. Call to Worship Leader: If God had not been on Israel's side, People: THEIR ENEMIES WOULD HAVE SWALLOWED THEM UP ALIVE! Leader: If God likewise were not our strength, People: THEN THE FLOODS OF LIFE WOULD WASH ...
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Charles Curley
... belief withers, confidence in our own ability to cope evaporates, hopes for peace, health and happiness fade away before the harsh realities of life. Look around you, the evidence is there before your eyes that Lazarus is dead in our world as well: problems which defy solution ... emptiness and loneliness and violence. Our Lazarus is dead and Jesus weeps for us, every one of us. Then Jesus did one of the strangest things he would ever do. Even as he was weeping for his lost friend, against all the evidence ...
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... that the ecumenical movement goes forward, agonizing over our separation in the understanding and partaking of the Eucharist and, in the same moment, enjoying the unity we already have with the promise of more - much more. AS CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A GIFT which defies measurement; it is called a security that is deeply personal. We have been living in the King’s castle all along, at times insensitive to our privileged place. Christian unity views that castle much as Thomas Ryan in Tales of Christian Unity ...
135. You Figure It Out
Matthew 22:15-22
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... of our rationality. We come to know and trust God in spite of our "better judgment." His ways are not our ways in part because we are rational, calculating beings; love and the miraculous, mystery and eternal hope do not fall into rational categories: they seem to defy reason. Still, we affirm them because our experience and the promises of God insist we must. Yet such a God of mystery gives us our minds and bids us use them. He says to us, "Nobody said it would be easy coping with the choices facing you ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... our knees in shame and defeat. Maybe God was teaching us a lesson in humility. One thing is sure. Sin always brings judgment. It may come through another nation or it may come in other ways within a nation. In the sixties and seventies, we Americans defied all authority and threw away traditional values and morals that made America great. It was the period of the hippie and the radical. We got rid of our sexual mores, and we went in for premarital and extra-marital sex with complete abandon. Recently, God ...
137. As Good As God
Leviticus 19:1-37
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John R. Brokhoff
... . Is it just for a millionaire to use tax loopholes and tax shelters to the point that a minimum amount of taxes is paid? Indeed, our society is infiltrated with injustice. This is contrary to God’s nature and wishes for his people. As long as we persist in defying God in not extending justice, we will be subject to God’s wrath. As long as we fail to execute justice, we will never have the security of peace, for peace is a byproduct of righteousness. I Am Love "I am the Lord" - I am the Lord of love ...
138. Father Damien
Luke 17:11-19
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Carroll Gunkel
... earlier noted, the missionary bombarded the Board of Health with importunings for "more" more of everything for his lepers. When his pleas received no response, he sent demands. When his demands fell on deaf ears, he zealously - some might even say angrily - defied the Board of Health, left the colony, and presented his demands in person. Threatened with punishment if he did not return to Molokai and remain there, he did return, not because of the threatened punishment, but because he had accomplished what ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... might have been? Am I the husband or wife I might have been? Am I the daughter or son I might have been? Are we the nation we might have been? Is it too late to become, by the grace of Christ? Let’s get it straight: sin is not defying social custom; sin is doing violence to our highest nature. It is tearing down something essential at the center of life; it is breaking with the purpose of the universe. Sin is violating eternal truth. Sin is rebellion against God; and it breaks the heart of God. Sin is sin ...
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Hubert Beck
... encountered. Sometimes the remedy is proposed as a religious one, sometimes as a psychological one, sometimes in still other terms. The number of people who have answers for the problems of the world is truly astounding, and the disguises under which they work defy imagination! Were one to attempt to catalogue the available saviors, one would be hard pressed to name them at any one time, for they tend to come and go like the wind. Some are faddish nonsense and others are continuing refinements of methods ...
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Raymond Gibson
... were more interested in their paychecks than they were in people. The church had become the possession of the state instead of its conscience. Then a man named John Wesley, whose heart had first been warmed and then set or fire by God’s Word, defied that deformed institution and declared, "The whole world is my parish!" He rode the length and breadth of England for more than forty years, preaching the love of God to people of all classes, and saved England from revolution and the church from permanent ...
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Bill Bouknight
... spikes flashing in the sunlight. Behind him, officers in polished armor display the banners captured from vanquished armies. At the rear comes the ragtag procession of prisoners in chains, hanging their heads in humiliation, living proof of what happens to those who defy Rome. "But look at this ragtag parade in Jerusalem: the lame, blind, the children, the peasants from Galilee. And who is the hero of the parade---some forlorn figure, riding on no stallion or chariot, but mounted on a little donkey, with ...
143. Our Three-Faced God
Matthew 28:16-20
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John R. Brokhoff
... . Jesus stands as our Advocate when we appear for judgment. Jesus makes all things right between God and man. Jesus serves as our redeemer. He makes sinners acceptable to God the Father. God is not only love but also justice. When God’s laws and will are defied, there is a price to be paid. Justice must be satisfied. In our time we have forgotten there is such a thing as the wrath of God. The wrath of God is the justice of God being applied to sinful man. The very integrity of God forces satisfaction ...
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Leonard Mann
... pressed and made ready. He had taken over from there. So when she opened the door, there he stood, the carefully pressed shirt now rumpled, his combed hair still dripping, the tie in a knot previously unknown to men, and his shoe strings knotted in a manner to defy all the most patient efforts of men! As she opened the door, there he stood, and said, "Surprise, Mother!" Well, she was surprised all right. And by every law she could look upon that small boy and say, "Son, you’re a mess!" For he was! But do ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... said: ‘My treasure is in heaven, and my heart is there.’ Finally the emperor said he would take away his friends. To this the Christian said: ‘That thou canst not, for I have a friend in heaven from whom thou canst not separate me. I defy thee; there is nothing thou canst do to hurt me.’ " "They may kill me if they please," said Savonarola, "but they will never, never, never tear the living Christ from my heart!" Threats against the faith are also indicated as something that will happen to ...
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Kent Moorehead
... a war to make the world a decent place in which to live; we fought and won a war to make the world safe for democracy. And what happened? We lost far more than we dreamed possible. We gained virtually nothing. And the defeated of yesterday defies the world today. In the third place, the pacifist believes that war is suicidal. Sooner or later it destroys those who resort to it. Hence, nothing could be worse than modern war, for it has within itself the essence of all other evils - hatred, vengeance, murder ...
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Kent Moorehead
... subversive to express such sentiments? Won’t it weaken morale, slow up production, and cause disunity? Granted war is evil. Whether we will or no, we are all involved. We might as well make the best of it. And what is to be gained by defying the will of the majority? We shall only get ourselves soundly disliked, and the result will be such loss of influence as will destroy our effectiveness altogether. I frankly confess that I feel the appeal of this argument. It is an altogether legitimate, normal, and ...
Drama
Robert Clausen
ACT THREE EPISODE 7: MAUNDY THURSDAY BISHOP JESUS FIRST CLERGYMAN SECOND CLERGYMAN SOLDIER PETER CAPTAIN GOVERNOR BISHOP MAN [JESUS stands before the BISHOP and the FIRST and SECOND CLERGYMEN.] BISHOP: Do you still defy us? JESUS: If I have done something wrong, tell me what it Is. BISHOP: You can answer that yourself. What are you trying to teach? JESUS: You could have come to hear me. FIRST CLERGYMAN: Mind your tongue. SECOND CLERGYMAN: That’s no way to talk to the Bishop. BISHOP: ...
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Bill Bouknight
... High. This is the pursuit of pleasure, the surge of adrenalin, the big thrill. It can be sought down lots of streets: drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, or risk-taking. Some people get their fix from movies with extreme violence or bungee towers with death-defying risks. They live to get high. I heard an expert on compulsive gambling claim that many of the late night accidents which happen on Highway 61 between Tunica and Memphis are really suicide attempts. He said that when a gambling addict loses big, the ...
150. Chapter X
Exodus 20:1-21
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Frank H. Seilhamer
... same! They were all given by God to set us on the road to living life as it should be lived. If these guides were followed they would bring wholeness to humanity and to the earth. They would make the life of each man more meaningful. But, because they are defied, trampled on, or ignored, we suffer at the hands of one another and bring pain to ourselves, as well as to our fellows. One of the keys to understanding why we do this is found in the last Commandment. While it may seem to be a rather innocuous way ...
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