Sentence examples similar to seemed a face from inspiring English sources

The recent American agreement with Japan to move some American marines from Okinawa, despite the failure as yet to agree about the future of the Futenma airbase, seemed a face-saving way of putting off a difficult decision.

In what seemed a face-saving exit, his family said that Mr. Wahid, 61, would head directly to the United States for medical treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

At the time this must have seemed a brilliant face-saving compromise for Tokyo, but it has proved a public relations disaster.

In his photograph, Charles seemed a bit sharp-faced.

Or: "His face seemed a few days fallen from the vine".

To outsiders it seemed a slap in the face to a great player and a former Warriors general manager.

Mr. Salman seemed a tired man, his face drawn, perhaps by the loss of too many friends.

She says that, like many women, when she was starting out as an artist she seemed to face a choice between having a family and devoting herself seriously to her work.

VIOLENCE -- As alluded to, there is much violence, but the fighting is athletic and at times so fast that it seems like a face-slapping contest.

Both seemed to face a simple but insurmountable problem: their conceptual approach to tactics jarred with highly individualistic or, in places, randomly put-together squads.

Google, too, seemed to face a similar problem.