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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.
The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
