The worms are transparent, and their organs and food can be discerned through their skin.
The jaggedness in "Prologue" could still be discerned through the rich varnish, pulsing like the beating of a heart.
Doors bang for no reason; faces loom outside in the darkness, but then can't be discerned through their own reflections in the window panes.
His effect on the French language can be discerned through his creation of French equivalents for many Latin scientific and philosophical terms.
Shafts of Austen's wit can be discerned through crossings out and amendments, including the line: "Female economy will do a great deal, my lord, but it cannot turn a small income into a large one".
Coming at the height of the Vietnam War, the peacenik message of "Mass," as much as it could be discerned through the muddled additional text by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, was that only by making ourselves emotionally vulnerable would we weather the bitter dissension of the times.
The next issue of this magazine — written, photographed, drawn, and edited in the course of four grieving, frantic days — is a thickly reported, deeply felt record of the catastrophe, its immediate aftermath in the city and beyond, and, insofar as could be discerned through the smoke and the pain, its meaning.
Since the confirmation of dark matter's existence, a preponderance of dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies has been discerned through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing matter acting as a lens by bending space and distorting the passage of background light.
In case of the compressed data the bump is discerned through just five average acceleration records.
This general question about the nature of law presupposes that law is a unique social-political phenomenon, with more or less universal characteristics that can be discerned through philosophical analysis.
