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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Humor
Erma Bombeck said, you want to know how crazy all this communication technology has become? A woman in Idaho needed to call her daughter, so she switched off her TV to mute and dialed her number. Nothing. She was annoyed. She knew her daughter was home. Why was she not answering her phone? As she was dialing again, she noted her TV set going nuts. "Now," she thought, "I need a TV repairman to boot." She slammed down the instrument and was hit with the realization that she couldn't get her daughter on the ...
2. Dial-A-Tale
Illustration
Don Baker
Pastor Don Baker relates a story of Rev. Tom Erickson: There's a public Library has a system called "Dial-A-Tale." Anytime a young child wants to hear a fairy tale, he can call the number and a voice comes on reading a short fairy tale to the listening young ear. However, the number is only one digit different from Rev. Tom Erickson. Because the small fingers often make ...
3. Dial-A-Tale
Illustration
The Public Library has a system called "Dial-A-Tale." Anytime a young child wants to hear a fairy tale, he or she can call a specific number, and a voice will come on reading a short fairy tale to the listening young ear. However, the number is only one digit different from that of the Rev. Tom ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... pet peeves? My number one pet peeve is the phone system. I hate it when I dial a number and I get that "Boodeebeep: We're sorry but it is not necessary to dial a 1 when dialing this number. Please hang up and dial again." Or it's evil twin: "Boodeebeep: We're sorry but you must first dial a 1 when dialing this number. Please hang up and dial again." I don't care how many numbers we have to remember or have to dial, just make it consistent. Especially in the Metroplex where there are 12 dozen area codes, 1 ...
Drama
Jerome W. Nilssen
... , so long as you know the short cuts. SETH (Snapping his fingers) Say, that’s right! I’m glad you reminded me. JAREL Of what? SETH Another phone call. I hope you don’t mind. It’s local. JAREL Go ahead. Maybe you can make us both rich. SETH (Dialing) Don’t laugh. Things happen fast in the modern world. (Into the receiver) Hello, Starkright. Seth Ajax here. I’ve been thinking about that swampland you’ve been trying to sell. And the fact is that I don’t want it - well, I don’t want it for its ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... and we think of a hand for hours, minutes, and seconds. Yet according to a scholar named Helen Hackett: “...the standard type of clock, then, was one-handed, and the dial hand would rotate slowly, moving round only one-twelfth or one-twenty-fourth of the circumference of the dial in each hour. The notion of the dial hand is therefore not, as modern readers might assume, an image of time racing on, but an image of steady slowness, of progress which is inexorable yet barely perceptible…” (The New Oxford ...
Drama
Edward Long
... than rushing through to "get it over with". The humor in the play makes it appropriate for both teenage young people and adult participants. Effects The Tinsel Time Machine can be constructed from a cardboard box. It should have a light inside (a flashlight), dials, and tinsel here and there. It needs to look interesting (the youth could build one). For light and sound when the time machine operates, simply flick lights off and on rapidly (a strobe light could be used). For sound, record a vacuum cleaner ...
8. Where Is Your Pebble?
Ephesians 4:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... a telephone back then with their fingers because of her arthritis. This was before the day of the touch‑tone telephone. Miss Fuss had a rotary phone with a dial that had to be turned. And so, Miss Fuss had a little stick she placed in the dial of her rotary telephone to turn it with. Dialing each call was slow and tedious. She started this ministry of calling each of these shut‑ins to make sure they were alright even though anyone else in her condition would be a shut-in themselves. She says, “I ...
9. For a Special Woman
Proverbs 31:10-31, Luke 10:38-42
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... woman comforted him and consoled him and said to him: “Remember this! There are other worlds in which to sing.” Years later, the young boy now a young man returned home from college. One of the first calls he made was to his old friend and upon dialing the phone he was disappointed when a voice he didn’t recognize was on the receiving end of his call. The young man explained who he was, gave his name, and told how helpful and loving her predecessor had been especially when he needed help. The Operator ...
10. That Heavenly Call
Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:26-38
Drama
Karren Boehr
... blaze of light -- by the way, how do you do that? --in that strange garb, pretending to be some kind of heavenly host and tell me I'm going to bear the Son of the Highest? (Pauses and shakes her head) I've got to get security. (Uneasy, begins to dial, keeping a sharp eye on her uninvited guest) ANGEL: (Totally calm and serene) I am an angel from the Most High, sent to you with a most urgent message. And, no, I have made no mistake. Angels do not make mistakes. This is Nazareth, isn't it? MARY: (Frantically ...
Drama
Arley K. Fadness
... , push pound 8 now or the star key. If you want nails, screws ... (Fade away momentarily in order to hear Hattie's comment) Hattie: (Looks quizzically at receiver) You've got to be kidding. Oh, my goodness! Voice: If you do not have a push button phone, dial 0 now and an operator will help you. Thank you so much for your order. Your call is important to us. Hattie: Well, maybe I can get some help now. (Hattie exaggerates her frustration as she pushes button on phone) Voice: This is a recorded message from ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... , and to look for chances to even the score. A girl doing her homework asked her father to explain the difference between anger and exasperation. Going to the telephone he dialed a number and had his daughter listen. "Hello," he said to the man who answered, "Is Melvin there?" The man replied, "There is no Melvin here." The father hung up. Then he dialed the number again, "Hello, is Melvin there?" "Now look," the man yelled, "I just told you there is no Melvin here. Why don't you look up numbers before you ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... with compassion enough to reach out to you. It happens. People fall between the cracks and get left behind, even in the church. There are lepers all around us who live isolated lives. And sometimes the only one we have to rely on is God himself, God who dials our number and says, I thought I’d call – just to say hello. God, who brings joy to the sorrowful, peace to the troubled and healing to the lepers. God, who embraces the lonely in the shadow of his wings, who fills the empty, and who guides those ...
14. 911 - Rescue
Romans 10:13
Children's Sermon
Tim Carpenter
... Lesson: How many of you know what an emergency is? (response) Let’s name a few emergencies. (fires, etc.) A fire is a good example of an emergency. What things should we do in case there is a fire in our home? Lead the children to answer “Dial 911.” Bring out the telephone. So, the first chance we get we should dial 911? Someone show me how to do that. Have a children dial. What do you tell them? (response) Let me hear you tell them, “My house is on fire!” (response) Are you sure that will work? I ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... The man yelled, "Now look! I just told you that there is no Melvin here! Don't call this number again!" Then he slammed down the receiver. The father looked at the daughter and said, "Now honey, that was anger. Now let me show you aggravation." He dialed the number again, and a voice roared out "Hello!" The man calmly said, "This is Melvin, have there been any calls for me?" One of the most important lessons fathers can teach their children (and you had better teach them early and often) is how to control ...
16. I Thought I'd Call
Mark 1:40-45
Illustration
Gary Nicolosi
... . "I said you got the wrong number!" came the voice. Once more the phone clicked down. "How could he possibly know I had the wrong number?" the policeman asked himself. A cop is trained to be curious – and concerned. So he dialed a third time. "Hey, c'mon," the voice said. "Is this you again?" "Yea, it's me. I was wondering how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said anything." "You figure it out!" The phone slammed down. He sat there for a while, the receiver hanging ...
Drama
Timothy W. Ayers
... anybody needs it, it is you. (Pause) Oh, I didn't mean it like that. I simply meant that you must come. Mary. I'm sorry. Wait, don't hang up. (Looks at the phone startled, hangs up, and moves counterclockwise until her back is to the congregation) #2: (Dials phone) Mary, I have discovered the greatest thing. No, no, I won't tell you what it is. You have to just come. This is the most fantastic thing in the world. (Pause) Why? Because we are such good friends and because this is such a fantastic opportunity ...
18. Glorious Surprises
1 Corinthians 2:6-16
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... faith and church as strange. Listen to verse 14 of our text: "The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned." If a person's spiritual dial is set on the channel of the world rather than the channel of the Spirit, he or she will regard the doctrine of the cross as nonsense. One professor has referred to it as child abuse on the part of God. Returning good for evil will seem absurd ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... a proper motivation within his soul with which to worship. The church is important for the relationships and settings it provides. Even in this day of automation and mass media, there is still a need for us to worship with our brothers and sisters. Dial-a-Prayer and Dial-a-Sermon are nice conveniences. Yet they are not all we need. Watching a service on television is perhaps better than no service at all. Vending machines would perhaps be more efficient for distribution of the Lord's Supper. Yet in all of ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... . I tried it again. Busy again. Busy. Finally, I looked more closely at the bill. The number I was calling wasn’t Oscar’s at all. It was another number he had written on the bill. It was my number. I was dialing my own number! No wonder I wasn’t getting through. Whenever you dial your own number, you don’t get through. The purpose of sabbath worship is to get our minds off ourselves and onto God and the neighbor. Service to the neighbor in need is the necessary extension of faith in the Lord. You ...
21. After The Beep
Isaiah 66:1-24
Sermon
King Duncan
... my affliction while delightfully paraphrasing Shakespeare: To speak or not to speak, that is the question! Whether ˜tis nobler in the mind to leave a message after the beep, or to take up arms against a sea of answering machines, and, by opposing, end them! To dial, to speak, no more! Thus answering machines do make cowards of us all! (2) I suppose I may as well get used to it. The marvels of technology cannot be reversed. Already the telephone system offers far more than I'm capable of understanding. Gone ...
Sermon
Glenn McDonald
... hook. Help will be sent immediately. The dispatcher described people with asthma so severe that they cannot catch their breath; they are barely able to speak. With 911 Plus they don't need to. The call itself is a cry for help. "Listen," he concluded, "even if you dialed 911 and then immediately hung up, we would know who you were and where you lived, and would send someone to investigate." Paul says that when we don't know how to pray -- when we're fumbling for the right words, or are simply crying out our ...
23. At War with Myself
Romans 7:15-25a
Sermon
William G. Carter
... ." One friend got damaged by her gossip and confronted her. "Why did you treat me like that?" There were a lot of tears, an apology, "I'll never do it again." The accuser slips away, still wounded. The woman watches her go. Then she pulls out the cell phone, dials the number, and says, "Can you believe the nerve of her?" Why does she do it? Doesn't she know better? Paul says, "I don't understand my own actions." We can take him at his word. All of us do stupid things, destructive things, things that don't ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... both wrong and unjustified. A young lady called Directory Assistance to ask for her boyfriend's new telephone number. When she dialed him, she got a woman. She said, "Is Mike there?" The woman said, "He's in the shower." She said, "Would you please tell him ... his girlfriend called," and hung up. When he didn't return the call, she dialed again. This time a man answered. He said, "This is Mike." The girl immediately recognized it was not her boyfriend, and she ...
25. Healing - Gone With One Call
Illustration
Philip Yancey
... miracles in them, then surely he had something wonderful in store for me. I wanted to contact the man of faith I had seen at the meeting, so much so that exactly one week later I phoned Directory Assistance in Milwaukee and got the physician's number. When I dialed it, a woman answered the phone. "May I please speak to Dr. S_____," I said. Long silence. "Who are you?" she said at last. I figured she was just screening calls from patients or something. I gave my name and told her I admired Dr. S_____ and had ...
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