All 8 Uses of
diplomacy
in
Babbitt
- Somewhat later, after diplomacies, Ted persuaded Verona to admit that she was merely going to the Armory, that evening, to see the dog and cat show.†
Chpt 2
- …owned sixty-two per cent. of the Glen, the president and purchasing agent of the Zenith Street Traction Company owned twenty-eight per cent., and Jake Offutt (a gang-politician, a small manufacturer, a tobacco-chewing old farceur who enjoyed dirty politics, business diplomacy, and cheating at poker) had only ten per cent., which Babbitt and the Traction officials had given to him for "fixing" health inspectors and fire inspectors and a member of the State Transportation Commission.†
Chpt 4
- The customer joined him in the worship of machinery, and they came buoyantly up to the tenement and began that examination of plastic slate roof, kalamein doors, and seven-eighths-inch blind-nailed flooring, began those diplomacies of hurt surprise and readiness to be persuaded to do something they had already decided to do, which would some day result in a sale.†
Chpt 6
- That's the trouble with women, that's why they don't make high-class executives; they haven't any sense of diplomacy.†
Chpt 6 *
- But even Paul lightened when Willis Ijams, a salesman with poetry and diplomacy, discussed flies.†
Chpt 10
- You're a good fellow. but I don't know that diplomacy is your strong point."†
Chpt 20
- Course they got to go some to beat you in business diplomacy, but I just mean with women.†
Chpt 20
- He was about to bring in the tragedy of Paul, but that was too sacred even for the diplomacy of love.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(diplomacy) the practice or skill of managing international relations or skillful management of relations in general