Sentence examples for tact yet from inspiring English sources

This personal political situation, involving far more subtle loyalties, requires gentler tact yet an equally firm hand.

It is a conventional enough literary assumption, but in her hands it produces singular work, in which an adult writer, full of parental tact, yet throbbing with restrained tenderness, treats both her characters and her readers as adults.

Sharing the Anglophile sentiments of his party, King went on to represent the new nation with tact yet firmness as ambassador to Great Britain for eight years (1796 1803) and again in 1825 26.

"I wanted to keep the original mood of the track in tact yet make a very personal reinterpretation upping the energy and the diva factor".

The film, a rehab job on a beached marriage, displays the most tender respect, the most exquisite tact, and yet it would be completely unwatchable — an outright embarrassment — with any other actors than Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep.

The film, a rehab job on a beached marriage, displays the most tender respect, the most exquisite tact, and yet it would be completely unwatchable an outright embarrassment with any other actors than Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep.

Yet tact, and interpretive complexity, can go perfectly well with Olds's favorite topics: one has only to look at recent poems about child abuse, motherhood or sexual pleasure by, say, Linda Gregerson, Laura Kasischke, or D. A. Powell to understand how writers can approach these subjects in ways that extend our expectations rather than meeting them more than halfway.

And yet his tact becomes so extreme as to leave out the very essence of Tate himself.

And yet, because of the Blaschkas' legendary tact, that still manages to surprise.

Her prince, the coolly handsome Rupert Pennefather, partners her with tact and sympathy, and if neither of them yet musters the full sense of tragedy that the ballet requires, both dance beautifully throughout, laying the foundation of great things to come.

The admissions battle may have been won on paper, but not yet in reality, says Kevin Williams, chief executive of Tact.