When everything in a story is imaginary and much is unfamiliar, there's far too much to explain and describe, so one of the virtuosities of SF is the invention of box-words that the reader must open to discover a trove of meaning and implication.
Ms. Thiessen cracked it open to discover this message.
When his jiffy bag dropped through our postbox a week or so later, I ripped it open to discover that I'd been jibbed.
It was also open to discover new sources of moral authority and sacred experience, a predisposition that led to increasing experimentation with drugs but also intimate religious engagements with popular cultures associated with music, film, and television, initially.
It is eye-opening to discover how poorly the US ranks on charts that measure salary equity and women's participation in public office.
That all I needed to do was learn the practice of opening to and discovering the true Self, sitting inside of me, quietly, and that from there the rest would come easier.
It's not a bad idea to arrive knowing which artists you're interested in, but also be open to discovering something new.
And yet it is a paradox, because Europe produced arguably the first world citizen open to discovering and appreciating foreign cultures: the Greek historian Herodotus, 2,500 years ago.
Well, I wasn't open to discovering new things, and this puts the scripture into a different light.
When we're present, we are open to discovering things we miss when we move so quickly.
Being open to discovering new possibilities has been a hallmark of American education for a very long time.
