It’s the perfect, discreet alternative to the braces our kids wear.
Nixon was grateful for Pompidou's discreet and practical help in arranging my secret talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris.
As CHINESE strikes go, the one that crippled Honda's car production in late May was relatively discreet: no picketing, no clashes with police, little sign of copycat action.
The fact that Kate, normally so discreet, felt confident enough to mention this shows how sure she was that she would be wearing a ring then and not several years later.
They are more discreet in conducting an affair;
It was not discreet of you to say that.
Yet he did not call the police for help, relying instead on two discreet aides.
Private by nature, he seems to have avoided jail so far through discreet diplomacy and a fierce focus on the children-downplaying his role as advocate.
I learned the amount and the owner of the money not from anything Madame Broussard said at curfew-again, she was stony-faced and discreet-but from Dede, who was outraged.
I'll certainly be most discreet in my conversation.
A decision is expected in 2012; expect plenty of discreet behind-the-scenes lobbying in the intervening months.
When you have to make a big decision, particularly in front of a large number of people, you must be discreet.
It was a discreet apartment in a quiet street.
THE receptionist at the office of Chancellor House Holdings in one of Johannesburg’s poshest suburbs is smilingly polite but discreet.
I refused to believe Papa and Mama did it like that, and moreover, I doubted they did it because they were always too discreet to let escape a moan that could ruin my innocence.
Their relationship, by all appearances, was stable, discreet and long-lasting.
The bodyguards had stopped a discreet distance behind.
Hence the appointment of Sir Peter Ricketts, previously the administrative head of the Foreign Office and the epitome of discreet civil-service efficiency.
Better yet, if there is no pressure to make a business out of it, it can remain intimate and discreet.
To this point he has been discreet in dreading to provoke me; you must represent the peril of quitting that policy, and remind him of my passionate temper, verging, when kindled, on frenzy.
The entertainment was always pleasant, private, and discreet, but never lavish.
It is a disguise for an inner drama, the discreet mask of agony.
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