She knew that only tact was needed now.
Clayton Vernon had heroic proportions, a nose which everyone admitted to be aristocratic, exquisite tact, and the calm consciousness of social superiority.
She envied him for his cheerfulness, his joy, his goodness, his dignity, his tact, his sex.
He fulfilled his functions with tact, grace, and dignity.
The grace and mind of Paulina charmed these thoughtful Frenchmen: the fineness of her beauty, the soft courtesy of her manner, her immature, but real and inbred tact, pleased their national taste; they clustered about her, not indeed to talk science; which would have rendered her dumb, but to touch on many subjects in letters, in arts, in actual life, on which it soon appeared that she had both read and reflected.
Not that she was fulsome about it: Madame, in all things worldly, was in nothing weak; there was measure and sense in her hottest pursuit of self-interest, calm and considerateness in her closest clutch of gain; without, then, laying herself open to my contempt as a time-server and a toadie, she marked with tact that she was pleased people connected with her establishment should frequent such associates as must cultivate and elevate, rather than those who might deteriorate and depress.
Josef Emanuel stood by them while they played; but he had not the tact or influence of his kinsman, who, under similar circumstances, would certainly have compelled pupils of his to demean themselves with heroism and self-possession.
Oh, the refined gentleman of superior taste and tact!
As yet, Père Silas, with all his tact (they say he is a Jesuit), is no wiser than you choose him to be; for, instead of returning to the Rue Fossette, your fevered wanderings—there must have been high fever—" "No, Dr.
The polite tact of the reader will please to leave out of the account a brief, secret consultation on this point in Madame's own chamber.
With that consummate tact of hers, in which I believe she was never surpassed by living thing, she even professed merely to have issued forth to taste "la brise du soir.
She was weak and wavering; she had neither tact nor intelligence, decision nor dignity.
Doctor Dave hadn't much tact, to be sure—he was always talking of ropes in houses where someone had hanged himself.
" Lucy's eyes turned with anxious interest toward Maggie to see how she went through this first interview, since a sadly memorable time, with a man toward whom she must have so strange a mixture of feelings; but she was pleased to notice that Wakem had tact enough to enter at once into talk about the bazaar wares, and appear interested in purchasing, smiling now and then kindly at Maggie, and not calling on her to speak much, as if he observed that she was rather pale and tremulous.
Many of us looking back through life would say that the kindest man we have ever known has been a medical man, or perhaps that surgeon whose fine tact, directed by deeply informed perception, has come to us in our need with a more sublime beneficence than that of miracle-workers.
She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies.
Has the theory of the solar system been advanced by graceful manners and conversational tact?
The conversation proceeded, and I marvelled at the tact with which Mr.
He could exercise tact when dealing with the affairs of others, but none when dealing with his own.
He must be treated with infinite tact.
