Their conversation is, for the most part, polite, with both men making occasional slips into tactlessness but both ultimately making the truths of the situation quite apparent.
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That dispute enabled some media in both countries to link Albrecht's demise to political factors, while Czech officials insisted it was due more to Albrecht's tactlessness.
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When word about the " musical collage " got out this summer, Kohl's party wasted no time blasting Schroeder and the Social Democrats for " tactlessness ."
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This was most probably due to his tactlessness, particularly in relation to post-war changes of policy, and indeed the wartime records of some of those now being selected for the prime military appointments.
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As executives paint rosy public pictures of collaboration with their music director, Masur, with endearing tactlessness, says that projects wanted by him have been shot down because of fears they might not sell enough tickets.
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"' Personality rule "' It is possible to avoid misjudgements and tactlessness by never treating members of another culture as objects or means of research, but as research partners of equal right.
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Soderbergh, with the brave tactlessness of youth, was quoted in the press referring to two of the leading purveyors of such pictures, Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, as " slime, barely passing for human ."
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Grigory Yavlinsky, the head of Russia's liberal Yabloko party, also criticized Radio Liberty, saying its decision to broadcast in the Chechen language showed " the tactlessness that is typical of American politicians, " the Interfax news agency reported.
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The several loves of his life sooner or later found themselves brusquely dumped; even his lifelong object of affection, the humorless, fanatic, and devoted Clara Schumann, felt the effects of his bad manners and tactlessness, mingled as they were with sincere demonstrations of loyalty.
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And while there may not have been any intention by the Municipal Commissioners to slight that gift, the impression among the public was that the municipal authorities were guilty of tactlessness and had missed an opportunity of fittingly replying to the act of courtesy by the Chinese of Penang.
