Sentence examples for tactless in from inspiring English sources

Clegg will not be so tactless in his objections to free schools, I imagine.

Capable, intelligent, forthright and even tactless in the face of a perceived injustice, Charlotte Bronte's famous heroine, who undergoes her emotional education within the grueling repressiveness of Victorian England, has long been received as a cultural progenitor of modern womanhood.

Bevin was always saying that he could not choose between Europe and the Commonwealth and, as suggested above, the French were tactless in the way that they advanced the Schuman plan idea as though it involved a choice of this kind.

Curzon, the inheritor of this mass misery, was tactless in saying that the disaster was no more his responsibility than that of "the man in the moon," but the issue was, rather, whether he did everything in his power to alleviate the suffering.

After first displaying his penchant for the tactless in early June with a break-up tweet to then-girlfriend, pop singer and Jay Z protégé Rita Ora, Harris followed up by denying her a scheduled Teen Choice Awards performance.

Such a work constituted a challenge, no less effective for being flippant, to Augustus's cherished moral reforms, and it included a number of references, in that context tactless if not indeed provocative, to symbols of the emperor's personal prestige.

Leigh's film exerts a brutal and tactless power in just showing this body in a context which denudes its nakedness of dignity.

Basically, save for the tactless dude in the headdress (our guess is that it's lost in translation), it's a perfect music video that will hit you in all the right places and make you bring an extra dog treat home for Fido.

He was injured in a 1995 car crash that led to the loss of both his legs, and says that in the first few years that followed, he frequently endured rude or tactless comments in his travels.

No venom, no tactless signs in the stands.

Time was all you had to do was avoid the reviews and the odd tactless yawn in the audience but now everyone's a critic.