Sentence examples for capacity to discern from inspiring English sources

He meant the capacity to discern the living world in all its aspects.

A majority of persons in our nation, white and those who are not, have in their DNA a sense of fairness and the capacity to discern leadership qualities in those who seek to lead the nation.

Bloom cites the character of O'Brien in Orwell's 1984, whose capacity to discern his victim's responses is exquisitely refined: "'You are afraid,' said O'Brien, watching his face, 'that in another moment something is going to break.

But simultaneously my respect for him became all the greater, for the breadth of his philosophical empathy, his capacity to discern underlying patterns at the most abstract level, and his intellectual seriousness — manifested not least when he burst into laughter on noticing another of the absurdities around us.

Similarly, normative competence theories rely on an agent's psychological capacity to discern substantive norms.

It is the capacity to discern what "follows from" one's beliefs and desires, and to act accordingly.

I also mean the intellectual capacity and inclination to discern veracity in statements they encounter in life.

Hemingway wrote short, concise stories, that were readable by the everyman but offered enough depth for serious considerations, while Faulkner wrote dense, stream of consciousness novels that required immense focus and mental capacity in order to discern meaning.

Above all the book is about the light of the human mind, the capacity of human beings to discern pattern and organization amid nature's seeming caprice.

These units were chosen from NEMS regions that reflected diversity in the amount of online renewable generating capacity available in order to discern if there were observable effects from that generation.

Because of this variable substrate binding capacity it is possible to discern a core glycan epitope interacting with the F1SBP binding pocket.