face-saving

ADJECTIVE
  1. maintaining dignity or prestige
    a face-saving compromise
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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.
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