I always take at face value what they say to me.
Perhaps the best way to go about it was to take his message at face value.
But who can take such an image at face value now?
But after much thought he decided to take the play of the jack at face value.
I was not taking the Taken at face value either.
But not people to be taken always at face value, either.
It is not simply information to be taken at face value.
I'm not saying we should take him at face value.
Sometimes, he knew, it was best simply to take things at face value.
Had she not learned the hard way that no man's word was to be taken at face value?