face-to-face

Adjective

• in each other's presence
  • a face-to-face encounter
    

Adverb

• directly facing each other
  • the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table
    
  • lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street
    
  • they sat opposite at the table
    

• within each other's presence
  • she met the president face-to-face