Sentence examples for tactful direction from inspiring English sources
And despite Karel Reisz's tactful direction and quiet, emotionally full performances from Stephen Brennan, Brid Brennan and (as the patient) Penelope Wilton, "A Kind of Alaska" felt like a writing exercise, a well-done arrangement of the kind of tale that has interested other writers and directors.
The subject was raised in a tactful way.
What's the most tactful way to go about it?
I wish that some more tactful and less wired direction had been brought to his eccentric and delicate love story.
Instead, gain the reputation of being direct yet tactful.
I work hard to be tactful; she's very direct.
The young man will be a wastrel if he leaves his beauty unreplicated, and there's surely a tactful hint here that he is already moving in that direction, having sown a few wild oats too many.
Be tactful and ask questions about their happiness, fears, concerns, sense of direction, etc., and listen to their explanations rather than put ideas into their head.
The movie, directed by Christopher Nolan, "trades in crafty puzzles rather than profound mysteries, and gestures in the direction of mighty philosophical questions that Mr. Nolan is finally too tactful, too timid or perhaps just too busy to engage," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
It trades in crafty puzzles rather than profound mysteries, and gestures in the direction of mighty philosophical questions that Mr. Nolan is finally too tactful, too timid or perhaps just too busy to engage".
