Sentence examples for first to discern from inspiring English sources

And if Simon increasingly sounds like the bitter Phil Oakley part in Don't You Want Me, I'm sure his peerless ear will be the first to discern it.

11 Rather, our mission in reviewing nonconstitutional errors is, first, to discern whether the rule or statute which is being violated was intended to be subject to harmless-error analysis.

To the Editor: David Carr cites Marshall McLuhan's observation that "we shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us," suggesting that McLuhan was among the first to discern the hydralike nature of applied technology.

Now, that quotidian banality: it did not fulfil its base promise until a decade and a half ago when it speeded up with digital democratisation and no film to be tiresomely sent for developing, a feature previously offered only by Polaroid whose potential Joe Orton was, typically, among the first to discern.

Europeans might not have been the first to gaze upon these beckoning landscapes, but they were (so the logic goes) the first to discern in them what they were meant to become.

Shen Kuo was the first to discern magnetic declination of true north while experimenting with a compass.

A nun would tape up a picture of a snow-covered mountain peak on the blackboard and say that the first child to discern the face of Christ in the melting snow was the holiest.

The new understanding distilled from these discoveries and publications in turn enabled European scholars for the first time to discern separate and distinct chronological periods in Greco-Roman art, and this new sense of a plurality of ancient styles replaced the older, unqualified veneration of Roman art and encouraged a dawning interest in purely Greek antiquities.

Seitz and Anderson, however, go back a long way Seitz is from Dallas and, seeing the black-and-white short "Bottle Rocket" there, in 1993, was the first critic to discern Anderson's prodigious artistry and, soon thereafter, to interview him.

Seitz and Anderson, however, go back a long way — Seitz is from Dallas and, seeing the black-and-white short "Bottle Rocket" there, in 1993, was the first critic to discern Anderson's prodigious artistry and, soon thereafter, to interview him.

At the end of the day, our objective is to be a good doctor first and to discern the details that matter in saving that person's life.