His work was shown in international exhibitions and published in art journals, which doubtless preferred the more discreet images, for von Gloeden's project spoke to the hopes of the time.
Gobbetti, working with Philo since her appointment as creative director in 2008, was the silent partner in the success of the brand, allowing Philo to concentrate on designing, while he worked on the business strategy that emphasised the discreet and rarified image of Céline.
Portraits of the prince regent and his mistress, for example, were kept at a discreet remove, while an image of George III was hung cheekily close to a painting based on "King Lear," a play whose performance was essentially forbidden at the time, lest it raise uncomfortable thoughts about the current monarch's madness.
Discreet tinting of photographic images was already practiced in the West, and Beato had experimented with it in Istanbul.
While the congregation waited discreet television screens relayed images of Lady Thatcher's funeral cortège making its slow progress to St Paul's.
Anne's smoldering passion (illustrated with images of discreet lovemaking) sets Thérèse ablaze, a metaphor that Mr. Miller gives a vigorous workout with cartons of cigarettes, extinguished matches and, finally, an apocalyptic conflagration.
Simpson's art was designed around a deliberate if discreet disjuncture between the images of the African American woman and the words used in various contexts to project culturally-prescribed stereotypes on her person, clothing, hair, postures, and gestures.
Byron D. Trott has spent a career carefully cultivating the image of the discreet investment banker, a behind-the-scenes consigliere to some of America's wealthiest businessmen, including his star client, Warren E. Buffett.
Stains left by the tide that apparently swept the car off the street clinch the image: they're discreet parallel brown bands stretching across the windshield and the clapboard, adding to the serendipity of compressed abstraction.
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