Word: tactfulness
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Osservatore called on police to crack down, and within 48 hours Rome police did, but with tact befitting a nation anxious to remain the world's No. 1 tourist attraction. A "strict and precise" directive to police noted that under Article One of the Concordat between Italy and the Vatican state, "police are obliged to prevent and repress any abuse against morality. Those found in succinct clothing will be gently invited to leave and to dress themselves with greater decorum. In cases of resistance, they will be identified, reported to their respective embassies and prosecuted...
...immediate solution presents itself. The whole problem seems as much one of tact and politics as of abstract principles. A select Faculty committee has been appointed to investigate the entire subject of science instruction for non-scientists, and its findings, hopefully promised for next spring, will be awaited with considerable interest...
...incomprehensible love affair that grows between the two is made plausible by Iris Murdoch's great tact with words. It is only when this serious novelist (she is a tutor in philosophy at Oxford's St. Anne's College) intrudes witchcraft into the plot that she seems to forget the difference between the reality of magic and the magic of reality. Mor's daughter Felicity, hoping to release her father from his enchantment, casts a spell and burns a figure (made of a nylon stocking stuffed with paper). Mother catches her at it: "Whatever were...
...informed about her husband's business, yet not so concerned that she meddles in his work or tries to push him. (The wife of a $30,000-a-year Detroit executive recently got ulcers while sweating out a promotion for her husband; he came through fine.) Qualities of tact, graciousness and amiability are important if the company is in a small town or if the husband is a sales executive who must entertain frequently...
...role of the forceful general's limp lieutenant is made intriguing by Arnold Graham. He has a very effective voice, but his rather loose posture and hesitant sense of balance can be distracting. Richard Klinger plays an innkeeper with grace and tact. He has one significant line: "That leaves me nothing to do but talk, and that suits me fine...