Hopefully, we've also been able to clear the air about what may be called tactfully "the social media question".

The C.I.A.'s "Health Alteration Committee," as it was tactfully called, sent Kassem a monogrammed, poisoned handkerchief, though the potentially lethal gift either failed to work or never reached its victim.

Lieutenant Colonel P. H. Preston, the headquarters administrative officer, was present at what Hicks has since tactfully called "our discussion."

He is famous for his burnt-umber hair, a forehead tortured by what one reporter tactfully called "semisuccessful transplants" and a mush-mouthed dialect.

Jaxom didn't think more of Ruth's comment then but tactfully called to the elderly dragon and rider to convey Sharra to the Healer Hall.