It may be the advisable for mainstream parties to understand that in the effort to become all things to all people, they are in danger of becoming nothing discernible at all.
I think that's partly because — matters of vocal talent aside — there's no discernible friction between the different Hughs, no danger of internal combustion.
But Mr. Tarullo has not yet made much discernible progress – and there is a real danger that the Fed will slip into a wait-and-see policy that will lead nowhere.
Mr. Gere's beady eyes and crooked-toothed half-grin can go only so far in signaling danger from a character who has no discernible personality beyond his code name and his infamous history.
But, when Graeme Hick was given his first championship twirl of the summer, to no discernible effect whatsoever, the home batsmen could ignore the apparent dangers lurking in the wicket, put on their bibs and tuck in.
The dangers lie in what the New Yorker critic Pauline Kael called the importation of advertising or Hollywood values - clearly discernible goodies and baddies.
But trends are discernible.
For no discernible reason.
