With blind, vengeful fury, he's rounding on the most discreet, distinguished figure of French language and literature.
John Coetzee himself is an appealing figure: discreet, professorial, and soft-spoken.
Belgium's media pour accolades on their saviour, hailing him as a "miracle worker" and "minimalist sage", but he remains a remarkably discreet and private figure.
A discreet and watchful figure, Moroni spent most of his 30-year career in the northern town of Bergamo painting the people around him, from the doctors, clerics and craftsmen to the politicians, poets and aristocrats.
Although she takes a discreet shot at "heroic action figure" colleagues for their eagerness to cover wars and disasters, she remains very much the heroic action figure on the news front, propelling herself into the next big story.
It maintains a discreet social silence on a figure like Jefferson Davis but idealises George Washington.
It was fairly discreet and I couldn't figure out why Mayor Bloomberg was so anxious to "Get Banksy" shouting from the New York Post headline.
His career as a freemason began around 1963, and three years later he joined the P2 lodge, founded in the late 19th century as a discreet network for important public figures.
In a culture that favors discreet anonymity, he cut a memorable figure.
Despite his demotion from the revolutionary leadership and later house arrest, he remains an influential religious and political figure with a large, if discreet, following.
The results section findings are structured according to the discreet steps in the handover process (see figure 1).
