These discrete acts are, in the systems that preëxisted Langton, also discrete chapters.
What connected these discrete links, from the local thief to the London auction house, was photographs.
These discrete strands cohered into a culture that Mr Jaffe calls "a fragile ecosystem".
"The risk of extinction therefore appears high for these discrete and highly contaminated populations.
If Mr. Freud's art is not about the mortification of the flesh, it is about these discrete epiphanies in paint, flashes of life.
Each of these discrete marketplaces has its own rules, and the sex practices in one neighborhood may look nothing like those in the next.
"It doesn't support the concept that we put forward that there be these discrete Indigenous conventions to deal with the complexities," he said outside the forum.
Egan conjures a mood of poignant immediacy with these discrete, disconnected statements, as she does with the text messages that stud the final section.
Our counting numbers (1, 2, 3, etc) are probably less than 10,000 years old, an offshoot of language, and there were probably no more than a handful of these discrete units for most of that time.
You will need a surround-sound receiver or home theater in a box to decode these discrete audio tracks and route them to the appropriate speakers; just adding more speakers to an older stereo receiver won't do.
It is difficult, at first, to see how all these discrete bits of information, aggregated within several whirring, refrigerator-size computer servers in the Washington area, could change the nature of politics.
