As befits its heavy stock of coffee-table tomes ("attractive" books, one salesman calls them), the atmosphere is genteel, with plush carpeting, discreet lighting and shelving of cherry wood.

It is also solidly up-market, with marble floors and walls, discreet lighting and mostly high-quality stores.

The discreet lighting and the soft instrumental music created a relaxed setting, highly conducive to a comfortable discussion.

And lest gleaming mahogany counter tops become warm with all the discreet lighting, each is fitted with an inside fan to keep it cool to the touch.

He took in the carefully chosen objects, the discreet lighting, the gleam and shine of it.

He gestured at the splendid red-wood-panelled walls, the gleaming chrome-trimmed windows, the discreet recessed lighting.

His award-winning designs typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting.

A. Though they were designed to provide discreet lighting for modernist interiors like art galleries, recessed lights can be a bit of bore visually.

Glowing wood paneling, soft rugs, discreet lighting, lovely women in low-cut dresses accompanied by elderly men with low-hung bellies; this was the right place.

Uses range from discreet or temporary lighting for unmarked vehicles and volunteer responders, to additional rear lighting on fully marked vehicles, to a "slick-top" configuration not unlike a full lightbar set.