Well, clearly lifney can be used in various non-literal ways, originally metaphorical extensions which have become partially frozen. But the same is true of the English equivalent "in the face of" which can be used of such inanimate concepts as "difficulties".is easily understandable, since smihut form evolved into preposition, andThe fact that very few instances of lmo may possibly relate to singular
its semantics expanded.
Possible, but unlikely in my opinion.
In your example of panim, lifney tzohoraim is wider than "face." A word,
which is an object itself, evidently has narrower sense than the same word
only referring to the object. The latter has, so to say, wider degree of
freedom.
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