(1) He once wrote: "The robust tabloids flashed the Green Light, were promptly denounced by other newspapers for their gaucherie or vulgarity or lèse majesté, and then were echoed by the very newspapers who had so severely upbraided them for their frankness."
Tact
Definition:
(n.) The sense of touch; feeling.
(n.) The stroke in beating time.
(n.) Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactful management of difficult situations can avoid the risks of violence.
(2) Species with alternative reproductive tacts are good models to investigate the poorly understood question of whether individual variation within sexes results from the same physiological mechanisms that control variation between sexes.
(3) Transfer from tact to mand contingencies was investigated in two adults with severe mental retardation.
(4) Results are discussed in terms of tacting and manding.
(5) Two thyroidectomized calves excreted 44% more radioiodine in urine and 38% less in feces than two thyroid-tact calves.
(6) This is why the indigenous claim for plurinationality has been seen as a threat to the unity (or centrality) of the state, instead of being tactfully addressed in accordance with the constitution.
(7) In tact with an increasing number of pathologica-NSTs and with worsening CTG pathology score, a significant increase was found for cesarean section rate, acute operative delivery, low Apgar score, low umbilical cord artery pH and infants born small for gestational age or clinically dysmature.
(8) In the resulting book, Public Faces, he described his character Jane Campbell as “a woman of tact, gaiety, and determination … a confident woman.
(9) Iran's president Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that its "rights to enrichment" of uranium were "red lines" that would not be crossed and that the Islamic Republic had acted rationally and tactfully during the negotiations, according to Iranian media reports quoted by Reuters.
(10) It is emphasized that prompt diagnosis, full support and responsible and tactful handling are essential in dealing with a condition as delicate as pseudocyesis.
(11) Andy Elvin is chief executive of fostering and adoption charity Tact
(12) Lo-Tact-1 mAb directed at the IL2 binding site of the IL2R alpha chain had only a marginal effect.
(13) Mands for two of three utensils emerged following tact intervention.
(14) Interviewers must be tactful.” They need to try to clarify discrepancies and if they’re not convinced or the stories don’t add up, and the client has the right to explain anything that may have been misconstrued.
(15) These face-to-face approaches emphasize a tactful, supportive and facilitative role; in some cases, emphasis is put on helping physicians overcome barriers to appropriate prescribing (e.g.
(16) A seminar like this can provide students, and thus future therapists and student supervisors, with a solid background in dealing more tactfully with a variety of conflict-ridden situations in the workplace.
(17) Vandals have left none of the mall’s glass storefronts in tact – “kids coming in and breaking shit,” Lawless explains.
(18) In fact, the combination of force and tact that enables her to disagree firmly but without heat or hostility is one that shines through her career.
(19) Tactfully, his captain, Stanley Cullis, responded that having passed he should move into the middle.
(20) The present study investigated procedures for developing mands and tacts in three learners with severe disabilities.