Word: discreeter
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There is a laudable attempt, within M.G.M.'s rather narrow limits, to treat the story realistically rather than as fantasy. Adapter Lewin has been generally discreet in his emendations of the novel. Much of the book's swishiness profitably disappears; most of the still more embarrassing purple patches have been unstitched from the fabric...
Valentim Bougas of Brazil, President-Dictator Getulio Vargas' discreet financial negotiator, was active behind the scenes. Genial, foxy Sefior Bougas, a veteran of many conferences, tagged this one like the rest: "First comes the illusion, then disillusion, finally reality...
Hattie Carnegie finally relented last week, closed a discreet curtain on the photographic blowup of limbless men, leaving only the papier-mâché model in the wheel chair to remind her customers of War Loan...
Tall in the Saddle and 500 other westerns are almost, but not quite, as indistinguishable as so many Lincoln pennies. What distinguishes this one is its discreet overall sense that the cast-iron predicaments, incisive fights, violent equitations, munificent landscapes and hay-stuffed creatures of such operas can be invested with some feeling both for humor and for authenticity. In advancing this idea, casually argued at best, the most efficient debaters are: 1) John Wayne, who is cinema's ablest proponent of rawhide masculinity; 2) neon-eyed Ella Raines, the most human and promising of the young sub-stars...
...staff may be, the general is set apart, behind an invisible wall of rank and responsibility. If he is not to be completely alone on his side of the wall, he must have a special sort of confidant. This person must be a congenial friend, understanding and totally discreet, with whom the general can talk with utmost freedom. The confidant should be without personal military ambition; he should want nothing from the general save his confidence...