Methven's silly voice cut through the tactful silence.

She let her voice fade into a tactful silence.

After a moment, in Fraser's tactful silence, Mallory rallied himself.

McCoy, on the other hand, was startled out of his tactful silence.

He appreciated the value of Casher's tactful silence.

And Frank's tactful silence about her relationship with Eric only made her worries more painful.

According to the narrator, his job was 'to reveal the awkward truth when the rest of the tribe would prefer a tactful silence.'

Imish was numb, mortified at his retreat; Waylock kept a tactful silence.

I will pass over the behavior of certain others in tactful silence.

For the author owes, at least, his Hollywood benefactors a tactful silence.