You could still discern the lighter-than-air, puckishly agile figure of the 1940s and 50s.
Dark as it was, we could still discern the Norwegian flag floating side by side with the Stars and Stripes on the launch.
That said, in the best traders you can still discern energy and creativity, a nerdy perfectionism and refreshing populism, which first made street food so exciting.
It is the ability to absorb the vast flow of information and still discern the essential current of events — the things that go together and the things that will never go together.
Certainly in his early works the "young eagle" could seem a rather wooden bird, determinedly plotting a formal course rather than flying freely.Although Brahms's composition grew ever more relaxed and supple, some listeners still discern an occasional disjunction in his pieces between real inspiration and the bald application of method with its "stink of the workshop".
As he knew that his readers would all be people of his own class, he elaborated his style with purple passages of description, but in a story such as "La Mortella (The Myrtle)", we can still discern traits typical of its humble beginning as an old wives' tale.
Each line of the original is woven into complex meters, and the syllables remain imbued with the music and the dance steps that once accompanied them, like the faint traces of color you can still discern on some of the famous ancient statues, once brightly painted, now known to us as carvings of white marble.
Astute readers, he says, may still discern in it an "insight into the relationship of a truth to history" (C, 135 6).
He found a piece of marching band music that was a band intentionally playing poorly, but sound designer Jeff Hutchins said, "You could still discern the tune".
It was encased in an elaborate antique brass frame, and although the picture had faded so the colors were dominated by sepia and brown, I could still discern my mother's face - round, youthful, with a fresh smile, with some coyness in her expression.
