Sentence examples for is discretion from inspiring English sources
noun
The quality of being discreet or circumspect.
- Bob showed great discretion despite his knowledge of the affair.
George is discretion itself, and I don't know any superstars.
In late 1940, as "Spies of the Balkans" begins, Zannis's specialty is discretion.
"What the City Council is looking for is discretion and flexibility," he said.
It has become painfully clear that what the National Security Agency lacks, above all, is discretion.
Collecting a multitude of Armani shirts is discretion itself compared with Burberry's gilded leather trench coat.
I disagree with the blurb in calling Godwin's "a masterpiece of indiscretion" - there is discretion at work, for all the shocking intimacy.
He explained that the gang's byword was discretion, wherever they were.
The aesthetic point of headphones you'd wear in the street used to be discretion.
"There's discretion involved, like everything else in our regulations," Mr. Gavalla added.
So are discretion and flexibility really the key to successfully combining career and family in the professional world?
Among qualities useful to ourselves are discretion, caution, enterprise, industry, assiduity, frugality, economy, good sense, prudence, discernment (ECMP 57).
