"Mr. Libby was not someone I used as a source in the White House," Mr. Fleischer tactfully put it.

Nonetheless the proposition would have to be put tactfully; the old man had a tough character.

Tactfully put, I thought.

When this argument was rather tactfully put to Rachel, she quite saw the strength of it.

Or, as Mr. Dolan tactfully put it, "The music and melody was not quite as robust as perhaps Republicans would like."

"Beijing is an ancient cultural capital," he tactfully put it.

"Admirably and tactfully put," Dr. Atheling said with a faint ghost of mockery in his voice.

According to Roberts the money was, he tactfully put it, 'to have been employed on a special service for the late king'.

Mother wasn't all that happy about my learn-ing 'assassin's tricks,' as she so tactfully put it.

And, if his death seems exquisitely well timed, let's tactfully put that down to shrewd career management on the part of Suge and Death Row.