Calling someone boring to his face isn't nice, but it doesn't make him a monster.
Darvish couldn't remember the last time he'd called the man father to his face.
I wasn't thinking about what they call you to your face.
More than once, she was called a cracker to her face.
"I had never been called that to my face."
A dangerous name to call any god to his face, old woman.
You might as well call me coward to my face.
She called Mama that filthy name right to my face!
A war widow even calls Joe a murderer to his face in a restaurant.
He doesn't know what Smoky means, although I call him it to his face.