tact

What distinguishes Mr. Zipperstein’s volume—composed with the tact of a historian who has read the archives and the novels with equal care—is how deliberately it resists the temptations that have undone earlier efforts.

But this tact has landed her in hot water, not only with her opponents, but also in her home province of Alberta and with politicians who otherwise share her political leanings.

“We’re going to have some extra tact,” Nourparvar said, “when it comes to something that we feel heavily affects us or our friends.”

Banksy’s art, which tends to be graffitied by the artist on public buildings, at times does not remain in tact for long.

And judicial tact, he said, required him to suppress his increasing discomfort with the direction of the Supreme Court.