But I turned it into a tactful question: Aren't you sometimes lonely, Pa?
Ms. Hughes, 31, appears gracious and tactful, deflecting questions that might result in even the tiniest frisson in the tiny literary world of New York.
"Please write and give me your opinion on this question (whether or not you'll lose your famous and valuable mind)." Perhaps not the most tactful query ever sent to Albert Einstein, but certainly not that unusual among the many letters he received from children.
Since the topic of class may be a sensitive one, encourage students to develop tactful yet probing questions.
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.
In an appearance at a grammar school last week down the road from Beaver Creek in Edwards, Colo., Miller was tactful in his answers to questions about his career posed by the children.
Always be tactful so the behavior in question does not takes it merely as criticism.
Each evening, a preselected volunteer (not drawn from that night's audience) is brought onstage and asked basic biographical questions by a single, mercifully tactful interviewer (who changes nightly).
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".
It became a charged atmosphere, and other students who attempted follow-up questions similar to mine, in the most tactful manner possible, were also met with vicious verbal attacks by Mr. Lewis.
