Word: discreeter
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...absorbed some of the innovations of Beethoven and Weber and gone on to anticipate some of the expressive, warm-blooded styles that would be heard later from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...
...competing for time on the House floor with 434 colleagues, while Senators can afford a more leisurely pace. The TV cameras often appeared to be the raison d'etre of the Senate Watergate grillings; in the smaller, more intimate and somehow more professional Judiciary Committee room, they remained discreet onlookers...
Conductor Bernardi has a discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...other night Kissinger devoured roast goose in a Bavarian restaurant. The discreet Secretary surveyed the bosomy waitresses, and after some hasty calculation observed that if those particular girls had not served the dinner, the hosts would have had to increase the guest list by 30% just to fill the room...
...wire-service report that France's nuclear-testing program in the Pacific Ocean would be resumed this month. Servan-Schreiber, a longtime opponent of testing, warned Chirac by telephone that he would speak out against the decision the next day. Chirac asked the volatile J.J.-S.S. to be "discreet," which was a bit like asking Martha Mitchell to abstain from telephone calls...