Sentence examples similar to discreetly grateful from inspiring English sources

The way her mother handled the album reminded Miriam of the Jewish ritual actions Rose despised: the slipping of scrolls from a cabinet, her grandfather's tender sheathing of the afikomen within its napkin at Passover, really anytime Miriam had ever witnessed a Jew handling papers of importance or turning the pages of a book as if unworthy, grateful, ennobled, discreetly defiant, all at once.

Pay discreetly.

Channels were discreetly reopened.

I did it discreetly.

He approached discreetly.

This you discreetly stir.

Heads discreetly turn.

(She still deals discreetly).

Eyes turn discreetly.

Anything goes, but discreetly.

Shades discreetly drawn.