What do you people like, just to be told things then to accept them at face value?

He'd also learned not to accept anything at face value.

He knew better than to accept such figures at face value.

But you have no choice other than to accept my words at face value.

They'd seen too much over the years to accept anything unusual at face value.

Still, I find it difficult, if not impossible, to accept the story at face value.

But most in the audience accepted it at face value.

The important thing about that Bob is not to accept it just at face value.

But the kind of man I believe him to be might not have accepted it at face value.

Young children are especially likely to accept these at face value.