Sentence examples for this loss of face from inspiring English sources

How the administration would finesse this loss of face remains to be seen.

Nothing highlighted this loss of face as much as Kosovo, where NATO helped an ethnic Albanian population wrest independence from Serbia.

It is hard to imagine China being prepared to accept the loss of face this would involve, though a little pain now might avoid a lot more later as China may already be realising, having missed an opportunity to dump Mr Tung quietly when he was up for re-appointment last year.

Nor, though, will the party barons meekly defer to Mr Kato's claim to the top job, with all the loss of face that this would entail.

And the loss of face after the public posturing seems very real.

As for the co-op classes, the Wall Street set, it can seem that the loss they fear most is the loss of face.

Although surely not as devastating as the breaking up of a long-term relationship, nonetheless inherent in this loss of the "face off " is a real moment of social rejection.

It was in this total loss of face, which became a total loss of self, that I eventually broke.

The Greek commander makes up for this loss of property — and of face — by seizing one of Achilles' slave girls.

Do you really want to go through all of that?" Another New York consultant, who asked not to be identified, said the development "may be an easy way out if he decides not to do this without a loss of face".

Also, since Chinese people do not like to tell you 'no' in a direct manner, as this involves disharmony and loss of face, never assume a deal is struck until you hear this explicitly.