All 5 Uses of
tact
in
The Good Soldier
- She treated me so very well—with such tact—that, if I ever thought of it afterwards I put it down to her deep affection for me.†
Part 2 *tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them
- I don't know why they did not take him on the hop; but they have queer sorts of wisdoms, those people, and queer sorts of tact.†
Part 3
- He began to indulge in day-dreams in which he approached the nurse-maid more tactfully and carried the matter much further.†
Part 3tactfully = in a manner that makes others feel good
- Occasionally he thought of other women in terms of wary courtship—or, perhaps, it would be more exact to say that he thought of them in terms of tactful comforting, ending in absorption.†
Part 3tactful = to say or handle things in a way that makes others feel good about them
- It stated that in its view Captain Ashburnham had been misled by an ill-placed desire to comfort a member of the opposite sex, and it fined him five shilling for his want of tact, or of knowledge of the world.†
Part 3tact = the ability or act of saying or handling things in such a way that others feel good about them