Sentence examples for discern neither from inspiring English sources

In case B, since they are only living together temporarily due to the illness and the need to care for the elderly, etc., the power of the family is often scattered and the absolute center of power is difficult to discern; neither of the two generations is strongly identified with this particular intergenerational structure.

But given that Hutcheson concedes that many objects of beauty are not internal, the proper conclusion seems to be that the power of discerning beauty is neither exclusively internal nor exclusively external.

He was indeed like a brother, playful and protective, and, despite those dual yearnings discerned by his biographer, neither of the wives he chose came very close to being a madonna or a vamp.

What is telling about Nicholas' version of seeing God is neither what vision discerns nor what practices one must follow in order to gain the correct standpoint for such seeing.

Cooking had tamed the dock, which was delicious in all that cream and bacon, but neither of us could discern the flavor of kale.

Motives matter, so does context, neither of which can be discerned in a selected two-minute rant.

It means looking at situations as neither black nor white, but to discern what can be changed and ought to be changed through advocacy, social organizing, and (yes) political action.

Only a monster could have read about Jude's abuse without feeling sick at heart, and the novel took utter advantage of that susceptibility, to ends that were neither realistic nor allegorical, that I could discern, merely operatic.