Sentence examples for a rather discreet from inspiring English sources

Despite its bulging physique, jacketed in a brilliant shade called Rising Blue, the test car had a rather discreet presence, a result perhaps of its minimal badging: garden-variety VW emblems front and rear and two diminutive Rs, one embedded in the narrow slit of a grille, the other affixed at the lower edge of the deck lid.

Nowadays, Schnitzler's daisy chain of sexual dalliances seems rather discreet; a sexual act is indicated by three ascetic asterisks in the text followed by a postcoital conversation.

No doubt there have been exchanges but they have been rather discreet by modern standards.

Now we have someone who's in between, who puts his work forward before himself and doesn't try to run way from the crowd, but is rather discreet.

However, El Libertario claims that Chomsky was always "rather discreet with regards to the growing authoritarianism of the Sandinistas during their turn in power in the 80's in Nicaragua and the Castro dictatorship during several decades.

After 33 generations pools derived with hCMV-EGFP showed a characteristically wide range of expression levels, manifest as a broad plateau rather than a discreet peak of EGFP expressing cells.

She spoke on the condition that I not use her name, because she is a member of the city's old-money crowd and would rather remain discreet about her opinions.

In fact, it's not even that humongous an advance: I can think of about 10 well-known writers – rather more discreet than Niffenegger and her agent – whose recent contracts are adjacent to $5m.

It's simply that, for the next six months at least, such objects of desire will be rather more discreet in their, well, in their desirability.

She makes the decision to not abandon herself in representational extravagance, to rather be discreet in the demonstration of her painterly capacity".

The boundary separating the artistic team, the subjects of his imagery and viewers/participants is encompassing rather than discreet.