They also have deeply recessed eyes that can discern light from dark.
To account for the self's ability to discern and resist deeply ingrained and culturally normative prejudice, the moral subject must not be reduced to the capacity for reason.
The film's deeply felt, highly personal quality resonates, as we discern that Julien is based on Malle himself as a boy.
Hume taught us that we must always discern between what we believe and what we know, and for many deeply religious politicians (or scientists, for that matter) that can at times be an uncomfortable examination.
At the Jafariya Mosque in the Chindawal neighborhood of Kabul, poor, illiterate women, many with deeply damaged eyesight, struggled to understand how to mark their ballots, or even to discern among the candidate photos.
This pair, deeply at odds, are thrust into a mystery that delineates an entire rural society, discerning within it not just the persistence of the social and class divisions that Franco could never heal, but the enduring structural remnants of that other Spanish F-word, feudalism.
Deeply unsettled moral situations, in which competing considerations press on the choices actual individuals make, demand that the principled individual discern the moral signal in all the noise.
That could already be discerned in the summer of 1943, when the Soviets waited to let the Germans lead off and commit themselves deeply to an offensive, and so stood well-poised to exploit the Germans' loss of balance in lunging.
The next issue of this magazine — written, photographed, drawn, and edited in the course of four grieving, frantic days — is a thickly reported, deeply felt record of the catastrophe, its immediate aftermath in the city and beyond, and, insofar as could be discerned through the smoke and the pain, its meaning.
