How To Use Diplomatist In A Sentence

  • Remember that the rulers of Russia in those days were the most charming and cultivated people in the world, whereas the Prussian as a diplomatist was the same Prussian whom, even as an ally of ours in 1815, The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster
  • For there was the learned president of the Geographical, with overhanging brows and slow and gentle speech; there was the foreign corresponding secretary of the Historical, a man better known as a diplomatist and an author, whose long years abroad had liberalized his mind without spoiling his open-hearted American manners. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York
  • There are people for whom professional diplomatists are out of touch, upper - class ex-Oxbridge twits, paid over-large salaries for living on the cocktail circuit.
  • You see that even the bow of a diplomatist is a serious business! Vivian Grey
  • There certainly have been a great number of successful diplomatists, as they would be called in the old days.
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  • Peter Pecquius, smoothest and sliest of diplomatists, did his best to make things comfortable, for there could be little doubt that his masters most sincerely deprecated war. Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1609-15)
  • Men don't go wilily to work in these days; but if they did, the notion of poor George, who could not keep a secret or tell a lie with easy grace if it were to save his life -- the notion of making him a diplomatist is very absurd. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
  • Modem communications has made the diplomatist's task more not less difficult simply because of the problem of keeping track of this complicated network of inter-communication.
  • The point of the book is to emphasize the role of President Lincoln as a diplomatist and of slavery as a world issue in re-evaluating the European decision not to intervene in the American conflict.
  • Besides her habitual devotees in the artistic or literary world, there were diplomatists and deputies commixed with many fair chiefs of la jeunesse doree; amongst the latter the brilliant Enguerrand de Vandemar, who, deeming the acquaintance of every celebrity essential to his own celebrity in either Carthage, the beau monde, or the demi-monde, had, two Thursdays before, made Louvier attend her soiree and present him. The Parisians — Complete
  • ‘The diplomatist has to recognize,’ writes Martin Wight, ‘his own objectives and limitations; there are certain things he wants, certain consequences he fears, and certain things he cannot do because his power reaches its limits.’
  • Nicholas preened himself as he sat there; he would tell Mary how he had bearded his Majesty, and what a diplomatist was her husband. The King's Achievement
  • The traces of Yax Pasaj's activities as a peripatetic diplomatist are also preserved in several inscribed alabaster vases from western Honduras.
  • You speak of having saved me from a perquisition, -- a perquisition in the rooms of a diplomatist is a serious matter, Monsieur le Préfet, and I tell you quite frankly that I should have resisted such an outrage in every way in my power! The Uttermost Farthing
  • A life's work such as that of Professor Charlotte Angas Scott is worth more to the world than many anxious efforts of diplomatists.
  • A disciple of Plato from 388 / 7, he married Dionysius' daughter Arete and became his most trusted minister and diplomatist.
  • The diplomatist is the captain of the frigate, thrown out at a distance to make his observations, and enabled to exhibit his intrepidity and talent, through, from the smallness of his means, the results may be equally small. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348
  • By those who still remember him, Morier is described as a diplomatist of Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
  • He had a supreme reverence for the truth, his word was his bond - a trait which Englishmen love and which will always make them poor diplomatists.
  • By nature Antony was a scrapper, and a dirty one, not a diplomatist. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger.
  • Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan. A Pleasing Form; a firm, yet cautious Mind
  • The New York Times obituary quotes Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, Kennan's authorized biographer: ‘He'll be remembered as a diplomatist and a grand strategist of the cold war.’
  • Why, Jim," said Paul, who had a twinkle in his eye, "that's diplomacy, and the man who practises it is called a diplomatist or diplomat. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
  • British diplomatist Sir Harold Nicolson (like him, an eighteenth century man living a seventeenth century life in the midst of the twentieth century) sought him out on his valedictory trip to the United States in 1963.
  • The son of Lady Elizabeth Savile, for whom Halifax had written his ‘Advice to a Daughter’ He was a distinguished statesman and diplomatist, ambassador at The Hague 1728-32 and lord lieutenant of Ireland 1745-6.
  • Kings may plan, diplomatists may diplomatise, scientists may analyse, theologians may teach and preach their isms, and politicians may make platforms and construct rings, yet none, nor all combined, can stay the hand of God. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882
  • The two diplomatists shook hands, and then the cooper showed the banker the door.

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