face-saving

adj.

保全面子的；情面；

FACE-SAVING
Face-saving and entrapment.
The effects of incompetency, audience acquaintanceship, and anticipated evaluative feedback on face-saving behavior ☆
Face-saving following experimentally induced embarrassment.
Social-Cognitive and Situational Influences on the Use of Face-Saving Persuasive Strategies
Self-reports on silence as a face-saving strategy by people with hearing impairment
The Social Functions of Attributional Face-Saving Tactics Among Early Adolescents
Style of third party intervention, face-saving and bargaining behavior
Face-saving as affected by subjects' sex, audiences' sex and audience expertise.
A Study of the Relationships Between Face-Saving Behaviors and Face Concept in Preschoolers