Sentence examples for mere indiscretion from inspiring English sources
This is not mere indiscretion.
His actions "could not properly be described in any sense as mere youthful indiscretions or pranks," the judge, Lord Kingarth, said.
Eastwood has no sympathy for the male code of silence any more than for the street harassment that male louts are seen subjecting women to; the rapists may have been young when they committed their crime, but Eastwood has no truck with the idea of mere youthful indiscretions.
It is frequently said that an SLC must be above suspicion like Caesar's wife Pompeia, whom he divorced on mere suspicion of indiscretion.
Tanner was careful not to endorse the idea that Pepys is "a mere literary performer", but he did describe the diary as "an indiscretion of his youth", and underlying his remarks was a preference for dwelling on the "great career" and an assumption - which others have shared - that official life and intimate experience are indeed far removed from one another.
One eye-witness report of Hamilton's indiscretion, by the way, suggested there was definitely no doughnut, very little tyre smoke, and only the merest hint of exaggerated acceleration.
Wicked indiscretions about the people walking down said corridors are always to be relished but Clark was no mere bean-spiller; he was the shrewdest deflater of pomposity, the cleverest spotter of hypocrisy and double-think, merciless at filleting any reputation based on falsity.
Langford understands youthful indiscretion.
And Mr Schröder's indiscretion?
"They were a youthful indiscretion".
