Many raffles strike a discreet, respectful tone.
It's just good Test cricket and the most excited we should get is to exclaim 'Game on' in discreet and refined tones.
In "Finnegan's Wake" he pretty much let Andrew Carlson get on with his Irish-style fiddle playing, adding the most discreet drops of tone himself from the piano.
Dance fund-raising is now of an entirely different nature, of course, but it tends to go on out of public view, with hushed tones and discreet nods.
Both morphs vary in the degree of colouration darkness (e.g., from very light green, across a discreet range of green tones, to very dark green morphs).
You won't find bling or in-your-face monograms here — just sleek zippered leather pouches, wristlets, backpacks and laptop cases; pieces have tone-on-tone embossing and discreet hardware.
Hughes's tone is often hushed, lending the collection a discreet, old-fashioned quality reminiscent of a restrained writer like Mavis Gallant.
As reflected in Felicity David's austere translation, Fossum's discreet style and mournful tone capture the collective mood when an adventurous 6-year-old girl is spirited away by a childlike young man with Down syndrome.
Early in the film, a taut debut feature directed by Erik Skjold bjaerg, the investigator Jonas Engstrom (Stellan Skarsgard, of "Breaking the Waves" and "Good Will Hunting') becomes complicit in the crime in ways he could not have anticipated, and his discreet paranoia sets the tone for the rest of this enveloping story.
When the first volume of autobiography, A Little Learning, was published in 1964 its often oblique tone and discreet name-changes ensured that friends avoided the embarrassments that some had feared.
