Sentence examples for rather discreet from inspiring English sources

No doubt there have been exchanges but they have been rather discreet by modern standards.

Now we have someone who's in between, who puts his work forward before himself and doesn't try to run way from the crowd, but is rather discreet.

Nowadays, Schnitzler's daisy chain of sexual dalliances seems rather discreet; a sexual act is indicated by three ascetic asterisks in the text followed by a postcoital conversation.

Despite its bulging physique, jacketed in a brilliant shade called Rising Blue, the test car had a rather discreet presence, a result perhaps of its minimal badging: garden-variety VW emblems front and rear and two diminutive Rs, one embedded in the narrow slit of a grille, the other affixed at the lower edge of the deck lid.

However, El Libertario claims that Chomsky was always "rather discreet with regards to the growing authoritarianism of the Sandinistas during their turn in power in the 80's in Nicaragua and the Castro dictatorship during several decades.

It's simply that, for the next six months at least, such objects of desire will be rather more discreet in their, well, in their desirability.

She makes the decision to not abandon herself in representational extravagance, to rather be discreet in the demonstration of her painterly capacity".

In fact, it's not even that humongous an advance: I can think of about 10 well-known writers – rather more discreet than Niffenegger and her agent – whose recent contracts are adjacent to $5m.

She spoke on the condition that I not use her name, because she is a member of the city's old-money crowd and would rather remain discreet about her opinions.

The boundary separating the artistic team, the subjects of his imagery and viewers/participants is encompassing rather than discreet.

Surprisingly the USP7-NTD did not stimulate sequence-specific DNA binding by p5382 393, as the p53-DNA complexes migrated as smears rather than discreet bands both in the presence and absence of the USP7-NTD (Figure 2B).