This same root yields the verb "discern"—to recognize as distinct or separate and the cognate "discreet"—to show discernment, hence "well-behaved".
He left my iPhone in my bag, a kind of wink of both discernment and decency – a gentlemanly touch that has me, to this day, picturing him as a rather dashing, rogueish figure, like the Scarlet Pimpernel, sweeping through central London.
Slums and BMWs went under the deluge without discernment for their economic standing.
What greets visitors is a recreation of an overt display of princely wealth and cultural discernment, much influenced by the contemporary taste for the high baroque.
But the example of America, where investors have recently been piling into almost anything with a sniff of yield, does not indicate that this discernment will be long-lived.
In that case, please raise your glass to the discernment and probity of the people of New Hampshire.Running for President of the United States is an unusual experience: invigorating, fatiguing, flattering and humbling in equal measure.
If similar misunderstandings in other such cases are any guide, the painter no doubt took the writer's enthusiasm for his own work as a sign of seriousness and discernment in other departments.
The Free Air Society, the travelling cinema shows, the Hydro Majestic, the sanatorium for consumptives, the climate and the landscape; her research has been impeccable, the discretion and discernment of the writing and characterisation very special.
"Frankly, as a recovering Catholic myself, that is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the governor's".In the e-mail, Rude calls [former Arkansas Gov. Mike] Huckabee "one of us".Marc Ambinder has been following this and trying to place it in a larger context.
They continue to see her caution as wisdom, her penchant for splitting the difference as discernment.
Should the markets show a little discrimination and discernment, and demand more interest for their money, life in the euro zone may become much less comfortable.
