Someone asked me, "If some of the stories in the bible aren't factual, then what's the proof that God can do anything at all?" That, my friends, is a personal thing -- what YOU believe God can do based on what you've read and understand is your own personal discernment.
The trouble is a willful confusion of, yes, the self-selected élite of the museum's proper constituency with that of commerce and celebrity, which have their own manners of discernment and are doing fine without imprimaturs from West Fifty-third Street. Fifty-third Street
Today we pray, each in our own custom, for discernment, boldness, clarity and leadership in each segment of our society so that we may find the resolve to achieve health reform worthy of this land.
He rated his customers in terms of his own estimate of their honesty and discernment.
Sometimes mansplainers who have been given the spiritual gift of discernment arrive on their own at the decisive conclusion to a particular topic that nobody else has ever thought of and nobody else will have to think about again if they listen carefully to the mansplanation.
Lauder has been a serious collector for decades — he owns about four thousand works — and his discernment is widely admired in the art world.
If similar misunderstandings in other such cases are any guide, the painter no doubt took the writer's enthusiasm for his own work as a sign of seriousness and discernment in other departments.
A while back, I spent an evening strolling along Beale Street with a friend, a classically trained musician of daunting discernment who is given to dismissing my own crude musical opinions by adopting a faraway look and an Olympian pout.
I hate to say it, folks, but reinstating the draft would put an end to this, for lots of reasons – because we'd have more troops; and because we'd all be noticing with great intensity and discernment, how hard this is on our own kids and families.
