How To Use face-saving In A Sentence
- My friend thought he had beaten a rapid retreat after the initial, face-saving show of bravado.
- 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.?
- But a senior U.S. defense official calls the peace plan a face-saving gesture for everybody.
- Pushing through rushed legislation for political face-saving is a massive backwards step.
- This unbelievable remark was followed by a grim attempt at face-saving, one that relied heavily on the convenient myth of ‘liberation’.
- a face-saving compromise
- Double standards and displacement of blame are persistent face-saving strategies.
- The decision appears to be a face-saving compromise which will allow the government to remain in office.
- The doctors have already got much of what they wanted and Abbot's face-saving inquiry will probably give them the rest before Christmas.
- In further elaborations, Harvey was supposed to have responded with face-saving calmness, `I don't care what he thinks he is. THE INNOCENT
