Unlike Nabokov, Kafka could certainly discern music and respond to it, but just as he found it hard to assent to "the quintessence of life", so he found it impossible to believe wholeheartedly in its expression.
And one can certainly discern strong elements of formalism in some of Carnap's writings, for instance in Logische Syntax der Sprache (1934/37) and 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' (1950/56).
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, certainly a discerning Mozartean, uses it -- though with touch-ups by Franz Beyer -- for his vivid 2003 concert recording, and to good effect.
The woman, perhaps fifty, in a lumpy cloth coat, her frizzy hair bunched under a woollen cap, now fishing in a Ziploc of dog treats for one to offer to Ava, having certainly already discerned his presence from any number of clues, showed less surprise than fascination that he'd spoken to her directly.
Not everyone's idea of ear candy, certainly, but for discerning mavens of mayhem, these auditory delights, and their visual accompaniment, are delectable.
Many credit the restaurant at the Grove, a boutique hotel south of Narberth, for the town's small foodie revolution; it certainly draws in discerning diners, to feast on local sirloin, ox cheek and Preseli lamb.
For those of a populist bent — those, that is, who saw last fall as a potentially disastrous shift of risk from Wall Street to the taxpayer — there is certainly an urge to discern two horns and a tail on Mr. Cohen, whom the blog Zero Hedge recently referred to as the "overlord and viceroy of all Western capitalism".
Almost certainly, he would have discerned one of Nature's jumps between the Neanderthaler and the avowedly "higher" type from Engis.
Or they are discerning but certainly not healthy.
This work certainly had to be discerned by the episcopacy -- God is a God of order, not chaos -- and we see this in Acts 15 with the Jerusalem council, for instance.
CERTAINLY the members of Young Israel of New Rochelle discern a more implacable opposition underlying the land-use debate.
