When the rabbi came calling, my mother, Estelle Gross, 87, tactfully explained she took her Judaism seriously but wasn't much into observance.

The Shield tactfully explained the shift.

The others looked at me for a few moments in uneasy silence before MacCarty and Bull Sullivan tactfully explained that such an operation wouldn't work.

"It's an investment piece," Mr. Langmead explained tactfully.

If usual hygiene practices are not considered to be adequate then the nurse may need to explain tactfully what is required.

How do you tactfully explain the awkwardness of working with an old lover to an android?

"The young human has learned to erect powerful mind shields," the second-in-command explained tactfully.

"Neil Jardine," the doctor explained tactfully, when Jack gazed at him with puzzlement.

She tries to tactfully explain this to Spot, but Spot misunderstands, believing that her experience was an unrequited love affair.

(Her Uncle Martin, she tactfully explains, had other duties as "the spiritual leader of a religious group in British Columbia.")