Something of this he put into words, with a rare and tactful sympathy.
Ben Halse passed it off with a tactful and consolatory remark, and they talked about other things.
Yet he need not have been, for the tactful North-countryman never by word or wink let drop that he possessed the slightest knowledge of the same even to him.
That man is rich indeed, who possesses thoughtful, tactful friends, with whom he feels safe when present, and in whose hands his honor is secure when absent.
There is needed a certain tactful considerateness.
I don't think you weretactful in making so much of the affair.
The Duchess Giovanna has, by some, been credited with the origination of the tactful expedient, but some say Bianca Buonaventuri was its inspiratrix.
Hers had been the wise power behind the throne, for her tactful counsels had guided the actions of her husband unerringly.
He was tactful enough to conceal the personal bent of his policy, and acted upon the maxim, which he was never tired of repeating: "Never make a show before the people!
True, I never remember even the most tactful person examining me for the first time without showing some little symptom of discomposure.
She could be extremely tactful in her private designs, yet she "showed me off" in a fashion that might have turned a far less giddy head than her protegee's, and perhaps cannot have been in the best of taste.
Partridge and I attempted to explain our positions at the same time, but Coleman picked out the facts from the confusion, and with a few tactful questions had the situation clearly in his mind.
Not at all," said Coleman, in calm and tactful voice.
A little tactful kindness managed her easily, while he watched the door where LeVallon had disappeared with Khilkoff, and through which Nayan might any moment now enter.
Nurse Robbins, an experienced, tactful young woman, he put in special charge.
She was an attractive, intelligent, experienced, young woman, tactful too, and of great use with extra sensitive patients.
The element of drama, though, is not insisted upon--indeed, a large portion of the searching charm of these pieces lies in their tactful reticence.
In reality a man of singularly lovable personality, and to his intimates a winning and delightful companion, he lacked utterly the social gift, that capacity for ready and tactful address which, even for men of gifts, is not without its uses.
Pamela was a tactful woman, and knew when to be silent.
It enraged Dare to see how readily she recognised these symptoms, and how tactful she was in her avoidance of friction.
Miss Banks was more than ever reluctant to discuss her own affairs, and Rosalie after a few trials was tactful enough to respect her mute appeal.
If she was amused by the frantic efforts of each suitor to outwit the other she was too tactful to display her emotion.
We can hardly have a better picture of a really tactful man than in some sentences taken from the admirable pages in which Cardinal Newman has painted the character of the perfect gentleman.
His friends were inclined to look rather askance at this; one or two, in a tactful way, pointed out to him the danger of "drifting.
He was thoughtful and tactful and knew how to efface himself.
But unless such an officer be selected not simply with regard to seniority, but with regard to experience in administrative methods, and unless he be tactful and watchful, troubles are very likely to ensue.
If Seward was more tactfulthan Conkling in the dispensation of patronage, he was not less vigilant and tenacious.
He was neither an orator nor a tactful party leader.
The suggestion should never come from her, and the more she can curb his ardour bytactful suggestion, the healthier will he and the happier will she be, for nothing causes such an irritable, nervous state as excessive coitus.
In as tactful a manner as possible he labored to prevent the Committee on Nominations from presenting his name.
Never was more tactful kindness on shorter acquaintance.
Again Barnard gave one of his smooth, tactful laughs.
But Sheila, usually the most considerate and tactful of mothers, amazed him now by ignoring his hint.
That was all that was needed: a tactful friend of both parties to put it to Wilkinson simply and in the right way.
There was a light in his eye that rejoiced thetactful friend; his face had a look of sudden, virile determination.
The former was known as a learned jurist and a tactful man.
For the reasons above indicated, they had failed: but now a stronger and more tactful grasp was to succeed in a feat which naturally became easier every year that removed the passions of the revolutionary epoch further into the distance.
It must have taxed Lincoln's sense of humor and strained his sense of the fitness of things to treat such nonsense with the tactful forbearance which he showed and to relegate it to the pigeonhole without making Seward angry.
In a most tactful letter Lincoln asked him to modify the order so as to conform to the Confiscation Act of Congress; and when Fremont proved obdurate, Lincoln ordered him to do so.
