Sentence examples for discreet work from inspiring English sources

But Bout was doing discreet work for powerful people.

Lord Levy, the millionaire music impresario and Labour party fundraiser who discovered Alvin Stardust, carries on his discreet work as prime minister's envoy to the Middle East.

Despite implicit pressures within the film and beauty industries, she has resisted plastic surgery (as someone with an acute radar for even discreet work, I'd stake my reputation on her appearance being entirely without intervention from either needle or knife).

The preparations by the "golden triangle" – cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Queen's private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, and the prime minister's principal private secretary, Chris Martin – show how discreet work is underway as Whitehall gears up for a second successive hung parliament, which could prove still more complicated than the last one.

Forming a mammoth yet oddly discreet work of shoreline land art, they are spectacular only in the cumulative sense, although the top level of Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport is a great place from which to pick out all four.

While the lord mayor's "inclusive capitalism" event made the television news bulletins, the more discreet work that she and corporation staff carry out in Westminster, Brussels and beyond, fighting for the interests of high finance in the City, goes largely unreported.

Above these works hang two neo-post-Impressionist paintings by George Kelly; one wonders why the curator of the show, Larry D'Amico, included these two brash works when putting together such a display of discreet works.

If you want it more discreet, that works too.

In 1927 he built his own house at 130 East 80th Street, a discreet and elegant work by Mott Schmidt, now the headquarters of the Junior League of New York.

Prior studies have demonstrated that smartphone apps with electronic headache diaries are a reliable method for data collection preferred over paper headache diaries by patients because electronic diaries are more discreet in the work place [20].

For Cotte, every hidden image he uncovered represents a discreet and independent work of art.