Sentence examples for discreet symbol from inspiring English sources
The jeweler-poet is vouchsafed a heavenly vision in which he sees his pearl, the discreet symbol used in the poem for a lost infant daughter who has died to become a bride of Christ.
(It's instructive to contrast Lawson's staged portraits of low-income black folk with the young Californian photographer Buck Ellison's staged portraits of wealthy white folk, replete with the discreet symbols of wealth: wood panelling, cashmere sweaters, silk shirts, linen pants, polished chrome kitchen-cabinet handles, crystal tumblers).
Trademarked brands of boutique broccoli are sprouting up on supermarket shelves, wooing us with their discreet ® symbol and not-so-discreet claims of exceptional tenderness.
The two groups share a number of cultural characteristics, including cuisine and colloquialisms, and many Muslims and Jews oppose a law approved in 2004 that banned all but the most discreet religious garb and symbols from French public schools, including the Muslim head scarf and the Jewish skullcap.
But Mr. Chirac embraced the commission's recommendation to pass a law banning "conspicuous" religious symbols but allowing "discreet" ones.
In prisons, where the sporting of coloured gang symbols is prohibited, the discreet rolling of left or right leg serves to show which side you're on.
Sheikha Mozah, Qatar's elegant matriarch, whose discreet lobbying of Hillary Clinton has been revealed in a series of emails released by the US State Department, has long been a symbol of the Gulf emirate's "soft power".
Discreet, efficient, ruthless.
