Appreciating the superfluously artful graphics of others, I discern the sharp taste of sellers who are members of the creative class, or else evolving into members of whichever classes are immediately superior to that one.
(I think I can discern the answer from the next two sentences, but please correct me if I am wrong).
In Abi Stafford, I've never discerned the physical or stylistic wherewithal to justify ballerina status.
I discerned a pattern between the importance of a goal, how the apprentices perceived their knowledge of the goal, and the extent to which the workplace can contribute to developing such knowledge.
I am fascinated with recent studies of the genetics of human nature ("Battle of the Sexes Is Discerned in Sperm," Feb. 22 and "What Provokes a Rapist to Rape" on Jan . 15, but I seriously wonder if an important point is being missed in the fervor to reveal the genetic man.
I discern that the gist of Ezekiel's vision of the futuristic statehood hinged on the heavenly polity symbolized by the four multi-faced, free-moving and high-flying cherubim as the good angelic powers who were commanded by God as the ultimate sovereign of all worlds.
Through the shisha smoke I discerned a massive fruit platter.
The adaptation by David Fishelson, the company's artistic director, from a translation by Joseph C. Landis (Leivick's original was written in Yiddish), is serviceable but not especially graceful, and ultimately its idiom feels faux-poetic and somewhat tortured: This clay that I've shaped with my own hands, I can discern the breath of life in it.
"That said, I never saw a case in this special category where I could discern the remotest public interest in prosecution … Looking at these tragic cases and considering the dreadful plight of the relatives, I struggled to see them as criminals.
