Brill sets out, John Hersey fashion, to comprehend America's reaction to the terror attack by visiting the viewpoints of those he interviews: officials, lawyers, politicians of course, but regular folk as well; he discerns a peculiar American tendency for special interests to work together in time of crisis.
WASDALE HEAD, England — When Richard Palmer surveys a vista that some have deemed the loveliest in the land, he discerns, as well, a conflict he believes to be insoluble.
It obviously impacted him as legitimate; for he discerned enough truth to take Mary to live with him and believed that the child she conceived was of the Holy Spirit.
As the novel unfolds, he discerns becoming a Jesuit, later takes on a job teaching at a prep school in Vermont, and eventually starts talking to a psychiatrist who prescribes him anti-depressants, which he resists taking for some time.
Yet he discerns a danger just as fundamental, though more subtle, than the lawlessness of the 1970's.
Dick saw his fiction writing as the creative attempt to describe what he discerned as the true reality.
Thereafter he campaigned tirelessly, and secretly, on behalf of political prisoners in the eastern bloc and turned his public scorn against what he discerned as the hypocrisies and complacencies of the British leftwing intelligentsia.
As evidence, he noted that his customers included office workers from as far south as 32nd Street and as far north as 40th Street — people with good-paying jobs, as far as he can discern.
I spoke to Kevin Georgel, the CEO of Admiral Taverns, recently, and he told me that, as far as he could discern, the Golden Lion was not advertised for sale at all in 2011.
Appointed head of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford in 1927 (when he himself was just 26), Austin rapidly proved to be as perceptive of what was best in the avant-garde as he was discerning in the choice of Old Masters.
It's not so much praise as proof that people on Twitter are about as discerning as a drunk in McDonald's.
