His strengths are easier to discern in other areas.
What intended narrative of compassion or salvation might we discern in that context?
In truth, one can discern in these paintings a wink and a nod between artist and patron.
He also spotted birds, bats and other creatures that we could barely discern in the vines and branches.
Yet, oddly, the markets show little sign of the lack of confidence that analysts regularly discern in them.
As the daylight faded, dancers rushed about us, their swooping, turning actions increasingly difficult to discern in the gloom.
Even in the best of times, China's human rights improvements have been so gradual as to be almost impossible to discern in any month-to-month sense.
The second is to discern, in the rhythms and textures of the book, the rhythms and textures of your own life.
Also hard to discern in this, the only publicly available summary of E&Y's inspection, were full details of the shortcomings at Kaloti, between June and December 2012.
Moreover, you add, he "swallows many of his words and is forced to play his mad scenes, for reasons I could not quite discern, in a floral frock".
Still, even the embryo of Jeffersonian democracy is hard to discern in Iraq today, not least in classrooms where the very word "civics" has no meaning.
