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Make-up and nail varnish is also to be kept "discreet".

As with the other shows, the prices are kept discreet, presumably lest word of them should spark a revolution.

The family planning service providers indicated that many women preferred to keep the records at the health centre so that their use of the services could be kept discreet.

Here, either out of modesty or limited time to rehearse, the physical contact between Ayesha Dharker's Titania and Chapman's Bottom was kept to a discreet minimum.

That is no longer the norm at BA, but as first class passengers we really were cossetted, as we might have been in a good restaurant: a discreet eye was kept on us, and needs were generally anticipated.

"Even in galleries, the price is kept somewhat discreet," he said in an interview.

One of Smith's signature steel pan melodies opens a track called Obvs, but these little bits of branding are kept in discreet check throughout, sometimes reappearing in disguise – as clinking bottles, or arpeggiating keyboards.

It's been kept hush-hush, discreet".

Orchestration is kept to a discreet minimum, the finest of which closes Hollywood with the stately fart of muted brass.

Portraits of the prince regent and his mistress, for example, were kept at a discreet remove, while an image of George III was hung cheekily close to a painting based on "King Lear," a play whose performance was essentially forbidden at the time, lest it raise uncomfortable thoughts about the current monarch's madness.

There was no need to keep discreet and do the sneaky follows like some covert operation.