Special One Book/One Community Event. Free presentation by Don Thomas, Space Shuttle Astronaut, on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 7 PM at Kent State University Trumbull, campus auditorium (4314 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren).
A facepalm (sometimes also face-palm or face palm) is the physical gesture of placing one's hand across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands, covering or closing one's eyes. The gesture is often exaggerated by giving the motion more force and making a slapping noise when the hand comes in contact with the face.
Face is the respectability and/or deference which a person can claim for himself from others, by virtue of the relative position he occupies in his social network and the degree to which he is judged to have functioned adequately in that position as well as acceptably in his general conduct.