Sentence examples for discreet exchange from inspiring English sources

It's all dark wood and soft lighting, with plenty of booths tucked out of sight for the discreet exchange of plain brown envelopes.

While France does not have official diplomatic links with North Korea, it has allegedly been running a discreet exchange program at Paris la Villette and Paris Belleville, two major architecture schools in the capital.

The conduct of diplomacy runs the gamut from discreet exchanges in private to potentially provocative public stances calling for new forms of democratic governance in failed or nascent polities lacking either strong security apparatuses or the established, empowered central authorities to control them.

The superlatively discreet foreign-exchange banker diversified from the very beginning, selling antiques and procuring loans.

Asks the narrator: "Did all friendships – all relations – involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?

Not wanting to ask too many questions lest our guardian angel get in trouble, we murmured discreet thank yous and exchanged our tickets.

I don't watch the same TV shows or the sports they are discussing". When the conversation turns to workplace gossip, minority employees say, they may hold back because they lack the trusting relationships necessary to participate in exchanges that involve discreet backbiting or criticism of bosses.

Under the new deal, Autodesk will issue 0.48 shares of common stock for each outstanding share of Discreet Logic stock, lowering the original exchange ratio of 0.525.

The film includes sword and arrow violence, discreet bloodshed and some emotionally intense exchanges.

Fraught with whispered exchanges, rustling silks and discreet gestures, this piece became the breakout hit of the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

Instead, the movie's pyrotechnics came from a couple of terrifically tense but visually discreet set-piece shocks, and from haunting exchanges between Oscar winner George C. Scott and Brad Dourif as a policeman and asylum inmate respectively.