Dubliners don't 'get' Americans and their tactless manner.
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.
Trump shot back on Twitter, in typical crude and tactless Trump fashion, attacking Brzezinski and "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough.
This hardly has the inventiveness of the legendary Cameron-Diaz-hair-gel sequence from There's Something About Mary, which was actually a comment of tactless inspiration on the way modern media encourage male consumers literally and figuratively to jerk off over female images like the miraculously beautiful Diaz.
Thus, in a move that may seem tactless but is clearly the way they do things down in Georgia, Lennon was invited down to the shooting range so that the family could see if their daughter's new squeeze was "a straight shooter".
But, tactless or not, these kids are hashtagging their way into a more transparent era that differs greatly from the old money modus operandi – and that's something to be welcomed.
And she examined Mary in her frank way that Mary at first thought was "tactless," and said, "You don't understand something.
And it did, in 1928, when the theatre rejected his play The Silver Tassie in a way that was, to say the least, tactless.
(Dorian Gray much?) When people ask us annoying, tactless questions, responding, "Why do you ask?" can sometimes be an effective way of not answering, letting them discover their rudeness in justifying the question.
