The alternative, as they see it, is to cave in to pressure on the nuclear issue, liberalise the economy, and submit to creeping western values.That message was discernible in an isolationist speech that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme leader, delivered in June.
Mr. Gore's tone was notably vigorous and aggressive, a discernible change from his flat delivery in a speech in Iowa on Friday.
His ideas are embodied and discernible in his movies, but his speech at SXSW last week joins the lucidity of his experience with the visionary force of a manifesto.
The people, members of a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Pirahã, responded to the sight of Everett — a solidly built man of fifty-five with a red beard and the booming voice of a former evangelical minister — with a greeting that sounded like a profusion of exotic songbirds, a melodic chattering scarcely discernible, to the uninitiated, as human speech.
However, the mechanism that does underlie children's strong tendency to fuse components of speech signals is not discernible from these two experiments.
The sheer fatuousness of Johnson's speech, the absence of any discernible values, or a backbone to put behind them, raises in me an unfathomable, hot, eye-pricking sense of having been betrayed.
Even among those who are not consciously devout, it can strike a deep chord.All that helps to explain the emphasis on holy ground, and holy history, that was discernible in a state-of-the-nation speech (link in Russian) this week by Vladimir Putin.
While bad news makes the biggest headlines in the West, positive developments are also discernible, such as a rise in freedom of speech.
Some words are more discernible than others.
Mr. Farber points to one "historical peculiarity" in Mr. Freed's documentation of the march: its keynote speaker, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., appears in only one image, barely discernible as he delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, surrounded by hordes of spectators.
