How To Use face-saving In A Sentence
- The others agreed to consider it, and negotiated face-saving compromises which fell far short of Olivares' proposals.
- We all delude ourselves to varying degrees, but we normally have some face-saving excuse.
- You know, there's all this easy talk about face-saving culture of China, but this is power politics.
- The party's most likely recourse is a face-saving compromise with the Ministry of Finance that does not alter the statusquo.
- But the odds are that even those women who appear impermeable to pain are suffering great hurt behind their face-saving pose.
- These are not corrective action but face-saving and delay tactics.
- Isn't this more face-saving than precedent-blocking?
- How many streets will have to remain unswept, how many refuse bins left to overflow, and roadways left to crumble to help pay for this latest face-saving exercise?
- This bluster might be just that - face-saving public relations.
- Some experts said Mr. Wen may have just toned down his language as a face-saving way out of the confrontation.