Morgan chooses a discreetly quiet, understated and subtle style, pensive rather than passionate, shifting seamlessly among a varied cast of characters.
A small turquoise faience baboon, 8.8 centimeters high, is a masterpiece of understated irony, so discreetly wielded that one cannot be absolutely sure that mockery was intended.
But he's ever so discreetly upstaged by Guillaume Gallienne's Bergé – a terrific, understated performance that delicately evokes the agonies of the sober éminence grise behind the neurotic boy king.
Certain threads that ran through the art in "Greater New York" also surface here: self-invented systems; hybrid media (often discreetly computer-assisted); unshowy formal polish; and a preference for understated ideas with resonant implications.
Self-invented systems, hybrid media (often discreetly computer-assisted), unshowy formal polish and a preference for understated ideas with resonant implications are threads that run through a show whose transnational mix confirms yet again that New York is an important cultural node on a global circulatory system (Cotter).
Self-invented systems, hybrid media (often discreetly computer-assisted), unshowy formal polish and a preference for understated ideas with resonant implications are threads that run through a sow whose transnational mix confirms yet again that New York is an important cultural node on global circulatory system (Cotter).
Fine dining remains something of a novelty concept in Bucharest, but elegantly understated The Artist (13 strada Nicolae Tonitza, +40 728 318871, theartist.ro), discreetly tucked away on one of the old town's quieter streets, is leading the way.
Jürg Frey, whom most festival-goers would have doubtlessly failed to recognise standing by an ATM or eating a chicken biryani, pens understated instrumental miniatures, in which sometimes stock tonal patterns are discreetly turned against themselves – the anticipated resolution of a familiar chord never quite materialising.
Lean, understated, enlivened with touches of Asia and Provence, this is a discreetly distinguished little hotel -- especially if you can snag a room like 514, a suite that looks down on the Pike Place Market and beyond to Elliott Bay and the peaks of the Olympic Peninsula.
It's a nice script hand, with some discreetly decorative capitals and flourishes: note the capital letters "G" and "C" in "George Curtis" and the flourished "f" in "father"–tastefully understated, but special, as befits a Christmas present from father to son.
