1 And he was seldom tactful in doing it.
2 Melanie, the most tactful of women, had tears in her eyes at her own cruelty.
3 The most important was how to make Frank realize, in a tactful manner, that his store should bring in more money.
4 Every evening when he called at her house, weary and discouraged, she was tireless in her tactful, helpful suggestions.
5 She was tactful, torrentially anecdotal.
6 They laughed, and spoke of Minneapolis, and were tremendously tactful; and Carol started for home, through the November wind.
7 Probably it had been tactful to leave Daisy's house, but the act annoyed me and her next remark made me rigid.
8 Father Alexey, a good-looking stout man with thick, carefully-combed hair, with an embroidered girdle round his lilac silk cassock, appeared to be a man of much tact and adaptability.
9 Moreover, it was, as it were, an accepted idea among us that Zverkov was a specialist in regard to tact and the social graces.
10 With tact and good-breeding, and, above all, entirely without superfluous words, I blamed myself for all that had happened.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 2: VIII 11 Prince Andrew noticed, however, that though what happened was due to chance and was independent of the commander's will, owing to the tact Bagration showed, his presence was very valuable.
12 When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance.
13 With so intellectual a guest as she considered Prince Andrew to be, she felt that she had to employ her diplomatic tact.
14 Scarlett's spirits soared at his laugh and she blessed Melanie's tact.
15 This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.