Word: tactless
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Drug use has never before tainted a Boston sports team. And with a tactless bungler like Pat Sullivan handling such a delicate situation, the organization may explode into a confused mess of good intentions, bad publicity, and bags of white powder...
...rather tactless and abrasive for which I make no apologies," says Koocher, admitting that he has sometimes fueled the political fires which hindered constructive debate and decisive action...
...some things are altered. In Jane and Prudence, the ladies live, appropriately, in an anonymous village. In this book Pym places them a bit awkwardly in the academic setting of Oxford, where she herself was educated. Miss Doggett is about the same, a tactless, sanctimonious bully robed in purple and decorated with bespoke hats. The feather-light Crampton Hodnet is about three brief romances, two of which Miss Doggett tries to meddle with and one that she misses completely, although it involves her companion and the curate who boards with...
...Canadian, I believe that my fellow citizens enjoy as much personal freedom and almost as much prosperity as Americans. Thus I regard the present surge of patriotism in the U.S. as a harmless if naive and tactless exercise in self-congratulation. I become quite frightened, however, at the memory of what other powerful nations have done in the past when they became convinced they had exclusive title to truth, freedom, justice or some other great moral virtue...
...Sally, however, Jvan and Vanya are part of a very powerful country which seeks to negotiate with the same self-confidence and self-respect that Jim and Sally feel it will not do for the United States President to continue admonishing the Soviets, and it is supremely tactless for him to do so at a funeral. Instead, the Reagan administration itself should take this opportunity to try to improve relations: a trip to Andropov's bier would be the first step toward forming the basis of mutual respect which has been entirely missing from our cold-warrior relations...