Sentence examples similar to absence of tact from inspiring English sources

In this remembrance of parties and celebrities past, as in much of Rushdie's later fiction, eclecticism amounts to a disconcerting absence of discrimination – and tact.

Greenspan is the soul of tact.

The problem is partly one of tact.

Mr. Rohmer was the master of tact — tact in the way his characters behave with one another, tact in the way he himself, as a director, spun his tales, and ultimately tact with truth and fiction.

Sometimes the Americans appreciate the value of tact.

" The woman, whom for the sake of tact I shall call Fifi Le Schlumph, paled.

"It's just a serious, gross lack of tact," Braden said.

"Maybe her lipstick is a shade too blue," the designer suggested with a show of tact.

He might still co-operate if he were treated with a modicum of tact and sensitivity.

Don't we all self-censor for perfectly good reasons of tact, politeness, and taste?

When Falafel wins, he is not always gracious, and he often seems unaware of his lack of tact.