Sentence examples for long discerned from inspiring English sources

The form of the rainbow seems random, as if the colors were spilled from heaven -- Kent died of cancer not long after completing the work -- but Boston residents have long discerned a distinctive profile in the dominating blue streak, the high forehead and elongated thin beard of Ho Chi Minh.

The portrait that emerges is that of a selfish artist who "lived for poetry, with single-mindedness of the sort he had long ago discerned in W. B. Yeats, the first poet who ever seized his imagination".

But it doesn't take long to discern an earnest, underlying orderliness.

But, to hear him tell it, it didn't take long to discern the perils of going native in Washington: existing in a cocoon of attentive aides, meetings at the White House, trips on Air Force One and dealing with global issues.

Though it does not take long to discern a connection between what they and their colleagues are doing and what those kids in the woods are up to, I will retreat into generality and indirection for the rest of this review.

And while his original insight had come from a skull, certain telltale signs, he believed, could be discerned long before an autopsy.

Indeed [I was] not so carried away by vainglorious folly that I, not thinking about the chains of my poverty, supposed that I could drink up even the single streamlet of any discipline, but when I was to have chosen some stream before the rest, by whose sweetest dew the thirst of my natural talents would be assuaged for the future, I longed to discern everything by experience.

Lambertini et al. (2012 a ) discerned long-distance dispersal and hybridization of Phragmites on the US Gulf Coast and questioned the application of traditional species concepts to Phragmites.

It's taken a long time, but discerning American wine drinkers are slowly getting used to the idea of drinking wine from a box.

The company acknowledged that it reviewed bids made only in the last 30 days, which may not be long enough to discern shillers who spread out their false bids.

Filmed with an analytical expertness and a devout attention to the continuity of action in long takes at discerning angles, the fight is also presented in its existential purity — there's no television-style commentary accompanying it, no music added, no slow-motion or instant replay, nothing but the live sound of the fight and the crowd.