In 1978, he started to use the term "ambient music": the concept stretched back to describe "Discreet Music" and the work of earlier composers, like Satie, who coined the term "furniture music," for compositions that would be more functional than expressive.
Khan described discreet encounters in which officers from the Security Service pumped him for information and tried to tempt him with the offer of cash and what he called James Bond-strainingining.
SponsorAScholar.co.uk offered female students aged 17 to 24 up to £15,000 a year in return for what it described as "discreet adventures" with businessmen in private flats or hotel rooms.
It may be his birthright, but this is a remarkably powerful position for a young man described as "discreet", "mature" and "well-bred" – but who has no hands-on experience of running a company.
A feminist, she betrays her lover, Don José, played by the dancer El Mistela, more because he belongs to the military establishment than because she is fickle, although her behavior could hardly be described as discreet.
This intimate transaction is described on the discreet label that accompanies an obsessively detailed model (conduit insect included) of Lopezia coronata, a member of the primrose family.
The files suggest that MI5, helped by the Metropolitan police special branch and customs officers – described as conducting "discreet" baggage searches – had an abundance of resources, given the number devoted to transcribing phone conversations by hand, opening letters and writing up reports of their targets' movements.
Hamon, described as a discreet politician from the left wing of the PS, was an assistant minister within the French Ministry of Economy and Finances until Tuesday.
"She knew how to work it," he said, describing her as "smart, beautiful, and discreet".
Romano Prodi, a former prime minister of Italy, described Mr. Draghi as highly discreet.
