Sentence examples for it too discreet from inspiring English sources

Byrne rightly sets little store by this picture — finding it too "discreet," "decorous" and "reticent".

It was all too discreet and sidelong and constipated and bloody British to be any good.

Mitchum, above, was in his mid-50s when he played this role, that of a man who has seen it all but is too discreet, and too smart, to talk about it.

He says the hoops for each company may be different, but they've sorted it out.Mr Fertik is too discreet to tell Babbage on the record which companies are naughty and which nice about complying with its proxy removal requests.

The movie, which opens today in Manhattan and Los Angeles, is very discreet -- perhaps too discreet -- in its handling of the actual murders.

But it remains true, even with Ms. Van Patten and Ms. Zahorian, that the company is too discreet.

Certainly "Savage Beauty" sweeps before it all previous biographies of Millay, which by contrast seem uninformed and too discreet.

In one hotel -- Ms. Sandys was too discreet in a telephone interview from England to name it -- she ordered a club sandwich.

Last year our reviewer, J. D. McClatchy, called this a "riveting and revealing" book that "sweeps before it all previous biographies of Millay, which by contrast seem uninformed and too discreet".

Maybe the British are too discreet for this".

Not the conscious one, of course; he was far too discreet.