All 5 Uses of
diplomacy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Well, Fernand, I must say," said Caderousse, beginning the conversation, with that brutality of the common people in which curiosity destroys all diplomacy, "you look uncommonly like a rejected lover;" and he burst into a hoarse laugh.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- It is almost dinner-time, and I had to use no little diplomacy to get rid of my watchful mother-in-law, my too-devoted maid, and my troublesome brother, who is always teasing me about coming to work at my embroidery, which I am in a fair way never to get done.†
Chpt 51-52
- Well, you soon become tired of singing, and you take a fancy to study diplomacy with the minister's secretary.†
Chpt 65-66
- By diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler of Albania, Epirus, and adjacent territory.†
Chpt 77-78
- Well, you must become a diplomatist; diplomacy, you know, is something that is not to be acquired; it is instinctive.†
Chpt 95-96
Definition:
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(diplomacy) the practice or skill of managing international relations or skillful management of relations in general