How To Use Face to face In A Sentence

  • She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle, and never devoted any conscious thought to him.
  • For when we come to God, then we believe no more, but rather see with our eyes face to face how He is; yet for all that love remains still; so that love may be called the chiefest, because she endureth forever. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 01 Basil to Calvin
  • Here she came face to face with the welfare and social problems confronting large families.
  • Thanks to Jay Cross and others, we know that informal learning is ultimately much more productive of lasting effects than traditional formal learning, whether it be face to face, distance tutoring or the self-access variety of e-learning. The evolving culture of informal learning
  • But the action really worth watching will unfurl where delegates and lobbyists come face to face with actual unmasked New Yorkers, who will demand accountability.
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  • He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face. THE RED ONE
  • He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bas-reliefs on this low screen are groups of peacocks and lions, two face to face on each panel, rich and fantastic beyond description, though not expressive of very accurate knowledge either of leonine or pavonine forms. Stones of Venice [introductions]
  • They come face to face at the Riverside today. The Sun
  • Face to face the design duo aren't the chattiest pair, but they have an eye for considerate, designs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The warm, sunny weather broke on our last day, but the persistent drizzle didn't deter us from visiting the wilds of Dalton-in-Furness, where we came face to face with beasties of all description.
  • He came face to face with the barracks supervisor.
  • If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Walden
  • You then come face to face with a wall of glass, behind which lurks the hotel reception desk, quite unlike any other you will have seen.
  • The yogi, or disciple, who has by these means overcome the obscurations of his lower nature sufficiently, enters into the condition termed samadhi, "and comes face to face with facts which no instinct or reason can ever know. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
  • The door slowly opened and Skye found herself face to face with a behemoth of a creature.
  • Strangely, it's as if the normal courtesies which one would extend to another in face to face conversation do not apply in telephonic conversation.
  • She said: 'The roadshow is a fantastic opportunity to meet people looking for work face to face. The Sun
  • Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
  • There is still a lot to be said for meeting people face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then they came face to face again to discover they lived in neighboring towns only one hour apart.
  • I stuck my head out of my tent, and came face to face with a cow.
  • But there is something invaluable about meeting people face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom. Dater Archives
  • Why does our secretary of state have to budget out her time for a face to face with a glorified facebooker? Clinton would 'look forward' to Palin sit down
  • She was met face to face with a guy who had thick messy dirty blonde hair and blue eyes that sparkled with laughter.
  • That, Sullivan argued, met the state constitutional requirement that criminal defendants be able to confront their accusers face to face.
  • And if she'd come face to face with that monster she could have been traumatised. The Sun
  • The show is called Manet Face to Face, which explains the exciting way in which these two pictures are hung, on opposite walls, with you caught in the crossfire.
  • The motoscafo had turned again, and he was now face to face with the Piazzetta di San Marco, with the Doge's Palace on the right. The Kaisho
  • I was able to talk - this might sound silly to you - talk to adult men and women face to face.
  • If you're single, watching a local team or group of musicians can bring you face to face with a hot love prospect. The Sun
  • An attitude construed as enthusiasm when conveyed face to face is indistinguishable from aggression in voice-mail mes-sages or faxes.
  • Sitara wheeled around in surprise, to come face to face with Rolan Snow.
  • Quite a shock when I turned and found myself face to face with one. The Sun
  • Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
  • Why not have it out with your critic, discuss the whole thing face to face?
  • More standard festive fayre as a series of musclemen who bear more than a passing resemblance to the side of a bus come face to face in an attempt to discover who's the strongest of them all.
  • The engineer stared from face to face, a little fearfully, wondering what had sparked this inquiry. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Part of their litany is a desire to avoid coming face to face with academics or scientists who are specialists in their subject and might be able to debunk their prejudices. An empty chair for Monbiot
  • A night out with friends can bring you face to face with a new love. The Sun
  • Chaucer lived he must have heard this very language, matter of fact, unmetaphorical, far better fitted for narrative than for analysis, capable of religious solemnity or of broad humour, but very stiff material to put on the lips of men and women accosting each other face to face. The Common Reader
  • She has suddenly come face to face with her own mortality.
  • Search until you meet Me face to face, and My tender uttering of your name awakes your glad "Rabboni. Timesofmalta.com
  • Talking face to face, it was clear that Peter Brett was burning with internal rage about these proceedings, and about Beamish's fate.
  • He came face to face with a man who shone a torch in his face.
  • It is very easy to lose your bearings as the constant sensory barrage and face to face combat can almost leave you shell shocked.
  • Face to face conversation, talking in the street, does seem to me to be declining.
  • Sifting through such a volume of applications can become very time consuming and expensive, and employers continue to turn to automated sifting tools such as psychometric tests to whittle down numbers prior to a face to face assessment. Onrec
  • The residency will also offer regular weekly clinics for people who've sent in work and would like the chance to talk about it face to face.
  • This slithery reptile can be found in the less developed parts of the estate, but face to face encounters such as that provided in the tour are rare.
  • While making a hasty exit, Mike and Debbie come face to face with some of the scariest clowns ever to set down this side of the midway!
  • He wrote charming letters, but was sneering face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • May I meet my brother face to face, and encounter him hand to hand, e'en to the death, for coming to waste my country! The Phoenissae
  • If a visitor familiar with the charcoals had come in not knowing this was a show of Weiss's prints, it would have become apparent only when she or he came face to face with the central image in Thoughts, a lithograph.
  • It was fun networking and meeting face to face the people who make various feeders and bird houses.
  • Two legends come face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • I believe that when we leave here we are reunited with our loved ones who also believed andthat we see Jesus face to face. We, Who Need Such Great Mysteries | Her Bad Mother
  • Meeting face to face helps to cement connections. Times, Sunday Times
  • We haven't come face to face since. The Sun
  • The room fell silent as she came face to face with the man who had tried to kill her.
  • Then the Grand Wazir called the hangman and bade him strip Hasib and beat him a sore beating; and so they did till he saw death face to face, for excess of pain, and the Wazir said, The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Sharing threats, some of which resonate even to this day, and which has been revealed later, would bring them face to face with IRA men fighting for Irish home rule .
  • Continue that count, albeit an artificially pre-programmed tally, to the year 2020, and you're face to face with the future.
  • It can bring you face to face with the gray areas of scientific thought. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
  • It can bring you face to face with the gray areas of scientific thought. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
  • So rather than flash fry the whole slab, Uenosan sliced the steak into cubes and flipped them from face to face, leaving the centre of each red, raw and quivering.
  • He scowled and the fear exploded inside as he reached out suddenly and grasped me by the chin again, pulling me so that we were face to face, only inches apart.
  • HERE is your chance to come face to face with one of Britain's most outspoken people. The Sun
  • It records the trace of that one-minute or twenty seconds - which can seem very long - of standing face to face with another person.
  • Now these grotesque, giant cybernauts shall come face to face with the steadfast resolve of this residual band.
  • The next step is to recruit and students face to face contact time.
  • As soon as we spoke on the phone, we knew we would have to see one another face to face. The Sun
  • He requested the presentation of the author, John Locke, and thanked him face to face -- neither, like the augurs, able to keep his _face_ -- for such antidotes to the blues. The Lincoln Story Book
  • The maid realised that there was a good chance that she could be face to face with the room's lodger.
  • When the cardinals found themselves face to face with this contingency on the death of Clement IV in 1268, they commissioned six cardinals as plenipotentiaries to decide on a candidate.
  • And Rudolph found himself face to face with the most radiant girl he had ever seen.
  • Eventually, he came face to face with discrimination again.
  • But while the wholesale conversion to epigenesis put an end to fictitious accounts of miniature organisms, it brought biologists face to face once again with the old question of how the egg gave rise to a fully formed organism.
  • Her heart needed to be set at rest over whether she would ever see him face to face or not.
  • After quarterback Jay Fiedler waggled to his right, he found himself face to face with Armstrong.
  • Eventually, he came face to face with discrimination again.
  • `Melphalan will require some promise of libation before he meets me face to face. NIGHT SISTERS
  • A cafe owner vouches for them and they are freed, but it isn't long before they come face to face with the bloodthirsty robber and his hatchet man!
  • The motif requires a beholder who, on encountering the artist face to face, might understand how Erminia's charity allegorizes his own rehabilitation through selfless love and compassion.
  • Both players are no strangers to York, having played league and exhibition matches in the city several times over the years, but this is the first time the two green baize giants have come face to face in York.
  • Both the declared victor and the man who says fraud robbed him of victory are coming face to face today.
  • It can bring you face to face with the gray areas of scientific thought. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
  • The floor was where the jobbers and brokers did their business face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Music, he says, 'brings us face to face with our raw, uncensored feelings'. Times, Sunday Times
  • I stuck my head out of my tent, and came face to face with a cow.
  • They stood face to face under the balcony in the moonlight as the blustery rain teemed around them.
  • Peering into the hollows of trees, you may come face to face with this wraithlike creature.
  • It can bring you face to face with the gray areas of scientific thought. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
  • The two rival politicians came/were brought face to face in a TV interview.
  • Back in the changing room, after Cyril Knowles's miskick had led to Chelsea winning a League Cup semi-final, Davies wrote of the sound made by the extractor fan: Its low, insistent hum seemed to reverberate round the walls, getting louder and louder as if trying to drive everyone mad, an Orwell 1984 room, a torture chamber where everyone is face to face with his worst fears. Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi
  • By some terrific fluke Richard came face to face with his future at the precise time he most needed to see it.
  • Is it not better to hear their controversy from their own mouths whilst they are face to face before us, than to read these vile fopperies, which are nothing but trumperies, deceits, diabolical cozenages of Cepola, pernicious slights and subversions of equity? Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • I've come face to face with one or two in my time. The Sun
  • Voters can also have their say by email, via post or in face to face meetings with local politicians.
  • (_The man turns as the other goes towards him, and they meet face to face_.) Angels & Ministers
  • Cadets are trained in the use of several types of weapons, shooting towards small targets such as dinghies, and in face to face combat, in the event that pirates manage to get on board. WN.com - Articles related to Nigeria banishes 'toxic' cargo
  • His ambition was to meet his favourite pop star face to face.
  • The senator cannot meet every voter face to face, but he is certainly doing his best.
  • Oozing a silky menace reminiscent of Kevin Spacey at his creepiest, John comes face to face with Patrick Jane in a crowded mall food court, where the psychopath's perverse cool is deliciously unsettling. Matt's TV Week in Review
  • We would rather meet people face to face than communicate via e-mail.
  • During my visit to Bakerton in Springs, at the height of the so-called xenophobic attacks in April, I came face to face with a frustrated and angry people who felt they had not been allowed space to communicate their concerns and grievances. Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Leadership Magazine's 'Tomorrow's Leaders' Convention
  • Once inside the box, face to face with my confessor I took off my dark glasses and said ‘Father, it's over twenty years since my last confession.’
  • Speech is normally used in face to face interaction whereas writing is used across barriers of space and time.
  • It was the first time since her release that she had been face to face with one of her captors. Christianity Today
  • The Times asked a senior figure who has fired more than 100 colleagues face to face what it is really like to be the hatchet man. Times, Sunday Times
  • You are about to come face to face with one of the planet's most awesome natural powers. Times, Sunday Times
  • What we do not realize in this stage is that these feelings are often associated with earlier childhood hurts we felt with loved ones and we are face to face with the decisions we made at that time to repress and deny our deepest feelings~ because there was seemingly no-one there for us. THE SEVEN STAGES OF LOVE
  • But, when we are face to face with the horror of war, the evil that Palin sees is not in the horrific battles between human beings and nations. Palin calls news org 'heartless and selfish'
  • Williams and Fitton have been good pals for years, have thrown the odd dart in friendly combat, but this was the first time they had come face to face in matchplay.
  • Seeking ‘higher levels of consciousness’ may instead bring devotees face to face with evil spirits through occult practices.
  • When the frost came to kill the detestable stegomyia, the poisonous striped mosquito, and the fever was finally routed, Sophie Wright was face to face with ruin. My beloved South,
  • Face to face with the piquant personality that had charmed de Gaulle, he was charmed as well.
  • It is face to face, “solus cum solo,” in all matters between man and his God. For Good Friday
  • You only need type the merest hint of innuendo into a search engine to come face to face with a porno advert.
  • I can't wait for him to set foot in parliament as a backbencher where he is going to be face to face with the people he always arrogantly insults.
  • They would be so many little Mins, visiting me to soothe my exile, and bringing me, face to face and soul to soul, in the spirit, with their loving autotype at home! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.
  • The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
  • Vielles – Haudriettes, found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. Les Miserables
  • But his "unfreedom" is to be continued by restrictions on his movements and his contacts: He cannot leave Israel, he will be confined to a single town, he cannot communicate with foreigners face to face or by phone, fax or e-mail (purely punitive conditions because any classified information that he may have possessed is by now nearly two decades old). Nuclear Hero's 'Crime' Was Making Us Safer
  • In the twelfth century the actual handicraftsmen found themselves at last face to face with the development of the earlier associations of freemen which were the survivals from the tribal society of Europe.
  • She seems a bit more worn, less fair-skinned," Ms. Price says as she gazes face to face at her future self. Meet 'Future You.' Like What You See?
  • He is_, _knowing as we are known_, _and seeing face to face_. Human Nature and Other Sermons
  • From face to face and speaker to speaker his eyes would turn, boring like gimlets of incandescent ice, disconcerting and perturbing. The Mexican
  • All agreed that "you couldn't beat cold boiled duck by much"; but in the morning grilled fish was accepted as "just the thing for breakfast"; then finding ourselves face to face with Lot's wife, and not too much of that, we beat a hasty retreat to the homestead; a further opportune "catch" of duck giving us heart for further brumby encounters and another night's camp out-bush. We of the Never-Never
  • Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is -- no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects. Marcella
  • We want to discuss this face to face, you need to either be available on Saturday Morning or come out and see us.
  • None in our day and age have encountered the lethe wyvern face to face at least none that have survived to tell the tale .
  • If an issue affects someone personally and individually, then the communication should be one to one, face to face.
  • Most imagine a wondrous city or a verdant garden where human beings come face to face with God.
  • In the life of the family, the critical moments of birth, puberty, marriage, and death regularly recur, and keep up the instinct, because man is then brought face to face with these eternal facts; there is no need of extraordinary perils, such as tempests or pestilences, to keep the instinct alive. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • May I meet my brother face to face, and encounter him hand to hand, e'en to the death, for coming to waste my country! The Phoenissae
  • Hence when Jacob said, _I saw God face to face_, we are not to understand that he saw the Essence of On Prayer and The Contemplative Life
  • And now thou didst set me face to face with myself, that I might see how ugly I was, and how crooked and sordid, bespotted and ulcerous. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
  • But there is something invaluable about meeting people face to face. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carl watched Emma and Michael intently as they spoke, following the conversation, looking from face to face.
  • The oral examination is traditionally an unstructured face to face session with the examiners.
  • To see God face to face, which is called the beatific vision, is not the natural destiny of man, nor of any possible creature. Moral Philosophy
  • Since he didn't want to risk contacting them over the comm, the only way he could think about was to meet them face to face.
  • And if he sung dumb in his glass darkly speech lit face to face on allaround. Finnegans Wake
  • We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly.
  • Deuteronomy is definately OT and I'm sure it's all about Moses: "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. Rumours of My Birth......?
  • A new system of restorative justice scheme will encourage young offenders to come face to face with their victims and make reparations to them. Times, Sunday Times
  • We naturally assumed that ‘Bring it on’ meant Boyd had the guts to meet us face to face in a fair debate, rather than smearing us in a hit-and-run attack on the pages of his own newspaper.
  • But how could she tell her minister, a confessor whom she would have to confront face to face? DANSVILLE
  • We are opting for a huge social shift in which more and more (banking, shopping, entertainment, working) is done not face to face but by cables looping past our front doors.
  • The funny thing about deejaying over here is that this is the first time New Order fans have had a chance to talk to a New Order member face to face for years and it's been really nice.
  • In considering the evidence of the manurial value of salt, we are at once brought face to face with the fact that the experience of its action in the past has as often been unfavourable as favourable. Manures and the principles of manuring
  • At one point he had turned round and found himself face to face with the man with the goatee beard. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
  • She said: 'The roadshow is a fantastic opportunity to meet people looking for work face to face. The Sun
  • American people face to face with kaiserism in the greatest conflict of all history. Face to Face with Kaiserism
  • He was affected after a minute, face to face with his actual comrade, by the impulse to overcolour. The Ambassadors
  • We also came face to face with one of my favourite sharks, the marvellous wobbegong.
  • Anything that has Bret Michaels in it will always get my attention. so Yes I will definitly be seeing this movie and adding it to my collection, Bret is an awesome Musician, a good actor and although Ive never met him face to face I have seen him live in concert (Poison) Myalltime Favorite band. not to ention I think Bret is Absolutely Gorgious! ‘Rock Of Love’ Star Bret Michaels Describes His ‘American Pie’ Role And The Feel Of Peanut Butter » MTV Movies Blog
  • Here he meets Farrakhan face to face and finds humanity lurking under the firebrand image, along with intelligence and charm.
  • He could just not bring himself to confront an unwanted employee, face to face, and give him the bullet.
  • they spoke face to face
  • The consent process is facilitated by face to face interviews with a trained nurse.
  • There came a hearty clap on my shoulder and I half-turned to come face to face with a ruddy-complexioned bloke about my own age, perhaps a little less.
  • The room fell silent as she came face to face with the man who had tried to kill her.
  • His ambition was to meet his favourite pop star face to face.
  • I wheeled around and found myself face to face with Lily.
  • Perfectly delighted at the idea of standing face to face with a person of whom she had heard so much, Dora removed her high-necked apron, and throwing it across the tub so that the sleeves trailed upon the floor, was hurrying away, when her foot becoming accidentally entangled in the apron, she fell headlong to the floor, bringing with her _tub_, _suds_, _clothes_ and all! Dora Deane
  • [See: Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness.] “Knowing the mind, face to face” (sems-kyi ngo-sprod) literally means “meeting the face of the mind.” A Commentary on A Root Text for Gelug-Kagyu Mahamudra
  • Turning, he found himself face to face with a teenage brunette in a tight green top and figure-hugging black trousers.
  • Whacks, the famous chief; because Nimrod wanted to know what kind of beasties lived in that region; and because I wanted a face to face encounter with the Indian at home. A Woman Tenderfoot
  • He also came face to face with a bearded dragon - an Australian lizard, stick insects and a tarantula.
  • Ducking a difficulty often just brings you face to face with yourself.
  • His ambition was to meet his favourite pop star face to face.
  • That might seem like a dreadful shame to us, but remember that future generations are going to have to fight the cyber wars and, unfortunately, knowing how to download plans for an electromagnetic pulse disruptor is going to be more useful to them than knowing how Queen Victoria reigned when they come face to face with an army of giant robotic bees. Prepare for the war with the giant robotic bees « One Size Fits One
  • HERE is your chance to come face to face with one of Britain's most outspoken people. The Sun
  • Toby thought maybe he would snowmobile into town today, he wanted to go to Carter and thank him face to face for the last night's movie.
  • Guests came face to face with two mandarins, a wedding bride, a woman with bound feet and her child, a schoolmaster, a shroff (money changer), three soldiers, and a Buddhist priest with a shaved head (fig. 9.7). The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • All of a sudden, as he still trips dexterously enough among the dangers of a double-faced career, thinking no great evil, humming to himself the trillo, Fate takes the further conduct of that matter from his hands, and brings him face to face with the consequences of his acts. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • She was then face to face with herself in a full-length mirror that sat between a knick-knack and a board game shelf. X, Chapter 2: Min
  • Because the two opposing fleets never came face to face, a number of significant incidents of the battle are unrecorded, and these artworks help fill the gaps.
  • The Elton hook-up on Face To Face, which will be his next single, is something Gary is especially proud of.
  • Come face to face with polar bears, walruses, harbour seals and beluga whales.
  • One night they crept unobserved through the arsenal and over the inner palisade, but on reaching the rampart they came face to face with two of the officers, and again a leap into the fosse was the only way of escape. The True Story Book
  • This afternoon, at the stadium, the pair come face to face for the first time this season.
  • I am too much swung by emotion face to face, and have a tendency to conciliate and conciliate and then suddenly get irritated and strike like a viper.
  • It's a good way of meeting men face to face so you can see if you click. The Sun
  • Looking carefully from face to face, he smiled benevolently and asked again, "Is the jar full?
  • Climbing down from the podium to thin applause, Burnell found himself face to face with the latecomer. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The interior remains faithful to the traditional Sephardic liturgy, with the congregation seated face to face and the Rabbi standing on the bimah opposite the Ark.
  • In business, it is important to network with as many people as possible on a face to face basis.
  • And to force them away from evil clutches would mean fighting the Darkness face to face.
  • When we get together face to face we can discuss how to go forward. The Sun
  • As the play progresses, one comes face to face with one's self, the self that has denied itself the fulfilment of its own desires.
  • As for flowers, a small corsage you can pin on her coat gives you a reason to be face to face with her for several seconds at meeting.
  • Rhodry grabbed him by a twist of shirt that nearly choked him and hauled him face to face. A Time of War
  • But if there be something in the case besides live machinery and crossing telegrams, if there be a monarch mind inaccessible to the vulgar crowd of things and only conversing with them through the internuncial nerves, that spirit entity may itself be capable of existing forever in an ideal universe and of communing there face to face with its own kingly lineage and brood. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
  • Speech is normally used in face to face interaction whereas writing is used across barriers of space and time.
  • He showed a very strange smile, almost a sneer before crouching a bit down so that he was face to face with me.
  • I'm so worried my night with this guy will put a spanner in the works when we come face to face. The Sun

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