Tact

Tact is what few members of the party have; their methods are raw.

Purple Springs 1921

Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

Tact is not mere nimbleness of wit, mind or manner.

King Edward's Keys 1910

Tact is the power of being all there, it is presence of mind, it is immediate contact with the situation, it is immediacy of contact with personality -- nothing between!

King Edward's Keys 1910

Tact is shown by the friends in not expressly mentioning, but alluding under color of general cases, to Job's calamities; here (Job

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Tact, which is the only guide through the mazes of society, will enable a woman to avoid anything like an unwelcome intimacy or a doubtful acquaintance, even if such a person should "call first."

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

"Tact" does not make any goddamned sense in this context.

Sunday Roundup 2009

"Tact" does not make any goddamned sense in this context.

Sunday Roundup 2009

"Tact" on the other hand, in the immortal words of Cordelia Chase, "is just not saying true stuff."

Obama Campaign Launches Ad Hitting McCain's Lies As "Dishonorable" 2009

"Tact," in the immortal words of Cordelia Chase "is just not saying things that are true."

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