Indelicately

In the wake of two failed marriages, however, he now spent most of his time here, in the pleasure palace he somewhat indelicately christened La Maison de Bang Bang. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

As Mayor Bloomberg noted at the bridge naming ceremony—perhaps a trifle indelicately, but that Mr. Koch himself seconded when it came his turn to command the podium—it's more fun to have something named after you when you're still alive to enjoy it. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

When she indelicately requested that he issue her a large quantity of prophylactics, his eyebrows shot up, “Jane, really!” ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

FBI officers were routinely sent out to try to squelch rumors around the country “that the director was a ‘fairy,’” as internal bureau memos always indelicately put it. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

As Rhee indelicately put it just days after the primary, that would be “devastating” for D.C. students. ❋ Washingtonpost.com Editors (2010)

John Page put the situation more concisely, if indelicately, in a letter to Ely in 1947, when Page was reclamation commissioner and the eighty-five -year-old Ely had finally been forced into retirement. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Did she deal indelicately with an exquisitely delicate subject? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I indelicately wrestled myself off the motorcycle and strolled up to the establishment that had unquestionably inspired the term “seedy beer joint.” ❋ Linda Robertson (2010)

One of Netanyahu's Knesset allies told me, indelicately, though perhaps not inaccurately, that the chance for movement toward the creation of an independent Palestinian state will come only after Ben-Zion's death. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In another piece, Miller writes rather indelicately about Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school of five hundred in Virginia, where many of the students are hoping to find jobs in politics when they graduate. ❋ S. E. CUPP (2010)

Less than two years ago she was, as the Los Angeles Times rather indelicately put it, "just another 47-year-old Scottish virgin", a wild-haired eccentric whose biggest audience to date had been the congregation of her parish church. ❋ Helen Pidd (2010)

Unfortunately he indelicately identified the regions prone to corruption as Africa and the Caribbean. ❋ Andrew Anthony (2010)

From the window he could see the packets of Chocorange and Strawpink ranked neatly alongside throat pastilles and indelicately close to condoms. ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)

Weigh these decisions carefully, knowing that if you sidestep your bond with your teen too swiftly or indelicately, she may hesitate to tell you anything too fraught again. ❋ Ph.D. Wendy Mogel (2010)

[You left] your [car running] in the parking lot for two hours [unattended]! You are indelible. Stop being such an indelible. ❋ Jeff (2003)

I was [bullied] in [kindergarten]. That [kinda] shit is indelible to the hippocampus. ❋ MaryinPgh (2018)

"What is your proof that aliens [abducted] you in the middle of the night 36 years ago and then [let you go], leaving no evidence?" "It's [indelible in the hippocampus]." ❋ Tp217 (2021)

[Matt] waited for me to go to sleep and then he [wrote] "[FUCK ME]" on my butt-cheeks with an indelible marker! ❋ USAF Cadet (2021)

son: I didn't get the grades in math, chemistry and physics that i wanted. Now the MIT won't accept me. Is there anything I can do? father: no. there is nothing you can do. All you can do however, is learn by heart, and apply to your future, [Gandhi's] famous phrase 'you write you write your life in [indelible] ink'. What you can do is go study history or some other social science discipline at [Columbia University] ❋ Sexydimma (2013)