In this abstract mood ("This is when I relish visions of suicide," he'd told her once), he tonight discerned something about her commentary, peeled back her father's (stable) condition, her mother's (chatty) busyness, to inquire into the neighbor, the former boyfriend, the surprise, the narrative aside.
It seems he liked me, and discerned something Hollywoodish in my character.
The reader discerned something studied in place of something felt, something approximated in place of something lived.
Amid that chaos, Police Officer Michael Carey thought he discerned something else: someone inside the Nissan was shooting back.
The world remembers the Greensboro Four by name — McNeil; McCain Ezell Blairr, Jr.; and David Richmond — because they are unambiguously on the side of justice, but the uncomfortable man on the other side of the lunch counter is a reminder that life is rarely so neat, and I can discern something heroic in this ordinary man, his name lost to history.
The world remembers the Greensboro Four by name McNeil; McCain Ezell Blairr, Jr.; and David Richmond because they are unambiguously on the side of justice, but the uncomfortable man on the other side of the lunch counter is a reminder that life is rarely so neat, and I can discern something heroic in this ordinary man, his name lost to history.
Who was he to be playing investigator?" If Ogden knew his Shakespeare, he could say, with Hamlet: "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!" For the attentive reader gradually begins to discern something deeper in all this.
One discerns something of a family trait here.
Still, it is possible to discern something of his roots and inclinations from his speeches and Congressional testimony.
Of course the mystique remains, and of course new teen-agers discern something ineffably simpatico in Cobain's voice.
By focusing less on Trump's personal reasons for his behavior and more on the political motivations for his actions, we can easily discern something crucial.
