in-your-face
adjective
: characterized by or expressive of bold and often defiant aggressiveness
in-your-face basketball
also
: aggressively intrusive
in-your-face advertising
Synonyms
Examples of in-your-face in a Sentence
an in-your-face attitude that sometimes puts people off
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Advertisement Part of that has to do with how early 1990s in-your-face filmmaking can still shock.
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Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
His in-your-face classicism is the kind of thing critics love to fight about.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024
Thus the matter of in-your-face public comments, particularly on social media, that police brass, notably Chief of Patrol John Chell, have been issuing.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 May 2024
With their in-your-face style, the Panthers are bound to be fairly generous in putting their opposition on the PP.
—Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
Europe, facing new conflict, recalls what their comrades died for.
June 6, 2024
At first blush, the town seems, well, too unabashedly and in-your-face American for a country that revels in self-criticism and understatement.
—Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 7 June 2024
These pieces are all designed to fit the Jean Paul Gaultier narrative of cheeky, fun, and in-your-face clothing.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
In an in-your-face election-year State of the Union address, President Biden delivered one of the most confrontational speeches that any president has offered from the House rostrum, met by equally fractious heckling from his Republican opponents.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
The memorials are in-your-face reminders of institutional failure and widespread impunity.
—Luis Antonio Rojas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
His in-your-face classicism is the kind of thing critics love to fight about.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 May 2024
Thus the matter of in-your-face public comments, particularly on social media, that police brass, notably Chief of Patrol John Chell, have been issuing.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 May 2024
With their in-your-face style, the Panthers are bound to be fairly generous in putting their opposition on the PP.
—Stephen Conroy, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
Europe, facing new conflict, recalls what their comrades died for.
June 6, 2024
At first blush, the town seems, well, too unabashedly and in-your-face American for a country that revels in self-criticism and understatement.
—Catherine Porter Andrea Mantovani, New York Times, 7 June 2024
These pieces are all designed to fit the Jean Paul Gaultier narrative of cheeky, fun, and in-your-face clothing.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 17 Apr. 2024
In an in-your-face election-year State of the Union address, President Biden delivered one of the most confrontational speeches that any president has offered from the House rostrum, met by equally fractious heckling from his Republican opponents.
—Peter Baker, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
The memorials are in-your-face reminders of institutional failure and widespread impunity.
—Luis Antonio Rojas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
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