Each new sect offered a partial discernment of a different essence or way of speaking of it, even if the vast majority of Protestants agreed that the essence could be retrieved best, or, indeed uniquely, through recovery of the central message of the Holy Scriptures.
Fashion is a skillful master of enthusiasm, and of a Pavlovian discernment of certain correspondences — between a current best-seller and a potential successor, for instance — but is an inadequate touchstone in the search for honest, disinterested distinctions.
But rather than a total rejection of U.S. overtures, this time there was also a call for a finer discernment of what was on offer.
His scribe clearly mentions him as "the most Christian King Columban", who is "endowed with the artless grace of a dove and with all discernment of the virtues" in the preamble to his decrees.
These have only served to obscure the facts, a close discernment of which would give any rational person hope that we will soon see an end to this senseless tragedy.
While Zhu often speaks of knowing or comprehending something in terms of the metaphor of seeing it clearly, of having a clear discernment of it, which is nothing like rigid propositional knowledge, he does recognize several forms or levels of knowing, and regards the basic steps of learning in analytical propositional terms and the higher levels in more synthetic insight terms.
In Guo Xiang's interpretation, nonaction stems from a profound discernment of the way of naturalness, which entails not so much doing less of certain things, as a mode of being and spirit of action guided by the principles of nature, according to which one performs all functions.
Keeping the health effects model consistent across the various source apportionment researchers and methods allowed a separate discernment of the extent to which variability in the source apportionment step contributed to variability in the ultimate health effects analyses results.
One example included a high-school biology teacher with an enhanced discernment of the connection between linkage groups and polygenic traits, as well as the ability to distinguish between different forms of neonatal genetic testing, such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and amniocentesis (CG).
