Not being decent...

Out of tact and scruples.

Excuse my friends. No manners.

Credit me at least with some degree of tact.

Thoughtfulness and courtesy mean breeding and breeding is an excellent thing.

You should teach your airman some manners and discipline.

It wasn't sociability that brought me here, Maggie.

Not if it's ruined at the beginning through lack of tact.

Don t you think that it is time to lead Lebanese women towards a much anticipated revolution?

My aunt, an incredibly articulate and brilliant woman, was widowed early.

He combined the tremendous skills of a geek with the suave social engineering skills of the master criminal.

To be sure, Vladimir Putin s Russia is nationalistic, awkward, and disposed to dangerous trouble making.

My words may be applauded as a matter of solidarity, courtesy or obligation, but I know that there are many who wish us to be successful, for that is what they hope for themselves.

There was, as one banker charmingly conceded, a bit of asymmetry between what bankers were being paid and what their banks had lost.

Most people acquire survival skills if not more sophisticated forms of savoir faire informally, as a quick glance at the immigration experience in the United States demonstrates.

Inserting itself effectively into this context required great cultural sensitivity on the part of MINUGUA, which made use of national indigenous staff and translators able to explain the peace accords and the mandate of the Mission and to take complaints in indigenous languages.