Sentence examples for tactfully phrased from inspiring English sources

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Instead he replied "Ein paar zuge", an original and tactfully phrased put-down.

Some, of course, feel the opposite, arguing that while his comments might not have been tactfully phrased, he was more than entitled to make them.

"Rejections slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil - but there is no way around them". - Isaac Asimov.

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In Italy, these have always been hair-raisingly complex, demanding, frustrating, or, in Parks's more tactfully devastating phrase, "character-forming"; I used to sit at the feet of my Italian friends and ask them, "tell me again about the time you needed a new phone line," shivering delightedly in anticipation, like a child being told a favourite spine-chiller on Halloween.

Roughly phrased, but right.

Samsung actually phrases it more tactfully, saying that "the basis for the jury's award is unclear".

And the next question - well, it's difficult to phrase it tactfully.

Bonhams responded to Sir Anthony's claims that it never had legs by saying, "that is not the recollection of the trust's staff who dealt with the installation of the piece", a tactful phrase which tactfully conceals exactly whose reputation it is sparing.

Brooks' writing seems -- how do I phrase this tactfully -- inane in the context of the pressing issues facing our nation.

What are we to make of the last phrase of a letter (also tactfully omitted by Harrod) written to Strachey at age 22: "I find Economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it.

Tactfully put.

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