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I was listening to them talk of quality and seasonability when the young perfumer, with all the indelicacy of a greenhorn, announced, “I have some oudh.”

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Almost every interviewer he has faced has tried to lure him into some sort of indelicacy.

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But it would be a shame if the current call for respectful depictions ruled out an approach that can cleave the knot of the subject with splendid indelicacy.

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His indelicacy made him poorly suited to enter the charged world of wolf politics.

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It was an accusation against a close U.S. ally that had never been voiced so publicly and with such indelicacy.

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