Thus, in a move that may seem tactless but is clearly the way they do things down in Georgia, Lennon was invited down to the shooting range so that the family could see if their daughter's new squeeze was "a straight shooter".
His magpie approach to genre and the unkempt exuberance of the prose build up into something so distinctive that it seems rather tactless to raise the family connection at all.
In a newspaper article a few days after 9/11, Martin Amis asked an itchy, irrepressible question: 'What was it like to be a passenger on those planes?' At a time of numbed shock and raw grief, his curiosity seemed both tactless and heartless.
"Probably not – that might look tactless," he conceded.
Seemed like the tactless TVMig hacks annoyed the modest Soviet lads after all; as soon as a news van neared, the soldiers' faces darkened and each feed, for some reason, went dead.
It seemed a little tactless.
This was probably necessary, but it was tactless of him to order a state jet, which he seems to use a lot, while calling for austerity.
Miller seems to have shown a certain literal-mindedness in her approach to the church's concerns: a slightly tactless inability to grasp the subtleties of its position.
Barack Obama also seems to have arrived in much the same place, first saying on Friday that he supported the construction of the mosque and then explaining over the weekend that he was talking about constitutional rights, rather than tact.But that simply invites the question of why building the mosque is so tactless.
As an American abroad, I recall all too well the embarrassment of being represented on the world stage by a tactless, insensitive president who seemed to possess little more than a child's understanding of the world.
