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Sentence Examples The first step is to discern which pieces should be dry-cleaned by reading the labels on your clothing. As far as audio goes, the Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track is pleasingly energetic, distinct, and easy to discern. However some have managed to discern a modus operandi, which could be considered clever if it were not so over-used. It's also a pity that some voters don't discern the Texas-size gap between these two Yalies. Those familiar with Offen's previous work may discern a slight shift in her perspective in terms of theoretical framework. It slows so that you're able to discern the edges with startling sharpness. Their sharp-eyed fellow lawyers are able to use this to discern something of their current mental state. No candidate on the campaign trail is better at saying two opposing things at once, and no candidate's true intentions are harder to discern. Fredrickson plays his instrument as a cello, with the ability to give shape to music in which shape isn't always easy to discern. Without the clue provided by the title, its real source might be impossible to discern. It's basically an attempt to discern whether a sender is trying to sell you something. The thanes made haste, marched along together until they could discern the glorious, timbered hall, adorned with gold. Monitors and televisions rely on our inability to discern detail at the pixel level. Unfortunately, it leaves the public in the position of trying to discern legitimate science from nonsensical technobabble. Besides identifying malefactors, grand jurors were to discern problems of public order. These magnifications were chosen to discern clearly the structure of the chloroplasts, which were the main target organelles in this study. At the very far end of the rostrum one could just discern a tribunal of sapient figures seated around a table. Her Augustinian estimate of human nature enables her to discern that our worst temptations arise not from raw hatred but from disordered love. Quite honestly, it was not possible to discern the difference between infantrymen, tankers, artillerymen or MPs simply by looking at them. Since both saffron and turmeric have quite strong, distinctive aromas, it should be easy to discern one from the other. Show More Sentences Confusing cinematic spectacle with the horrors and necessities of armed conflict signals an end to our ability to discern truth. People seem to regard Fire Island as a utopia, and it's not hard to discern why. We will be discerning, and when failing to discern, genuinely contrite, but we will give no quarter to our enemy. In it, the authors attempt to discern broad patterns in the health measures, both across groups and over long stretches of time. I cannot discern anything tricksy in his demeanour, I really do believe that he is sincere. We can discern in his letters an intelligent, well-read man who had strong, almost violent opinions. Certainly, it is hard to discern the leap in activity that could justify this level of response. Gone is Scud's uncompromising chunky beats and I-Sound's earlier nods toward rave's easy to discern breakbeats. The text should be as readable as plain text but you should also be able to easily discern linked words. Distinctions between what is recreated, retouched and invented digitally are difficult to discern. As soon as her telepathic abilities discern that we have reattained REM sleep, she cries again. Like the most diaphanous works by Turner or Rothko, it suggests representational elements, yet one is hard-pressed to discern any in the image. The room's wobbliness ceased slightly and she was able to discern that she was in a large bed surrounded in something. As we walked by I saw Yrling's and Toki's war-kits, for they were easy to discern by the fineness of the helmets and the gilt upon the bosses of their shields. Meaning, one was left to discern, that religion is self-evidently a coercive force for ill. Lately though it seems the line between spin and reality is harder to discern. Rational people, they contend, would take the time to discern whether the person behind the weapon was an actual threat. Only in retrospect can one discern some of the logic at work. What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance. One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock. Show More Sentences In this discussion, attempt is devoted to discern the political symbolism he should now titivate himself with in the light of fulfilling the presidential rite of passage. If one inspected an unretouched profile photo of Lincoln, pre-beard, in 1860, one can discern the changes made. They humiliate themselves in front of millions of people, and everybody with their TV dinner just laughs it up, not being able to critically discern it from a good movie. But having skited, it could hardly expect the hoi polloi to discern between true cash and pre-spent cash, or between capital and other spending commitments. I fear it may have taken the microorganisms from all these Dumpsters, though in this polar clime who can discern the unliving from the merely dead? However, one may discern the Franciscan view within through its intense dramatic realism, vernacularization, and didacticism. Looking inside the digital transmedium, we can discern distinct developments. Dreams may be absurd in nature but the senses are not able to discern whether they are real or not. He posited a geocentric cosmology that we may discern in selections of the Metaphysics, which was widely accepted up until the 16th century. The reasons behind this sudden change are difficult to discern. For example, the role of cities as pathetic fallacy for the artist is easy to discern. In the new ecumenical reflections on catholicity I discern a Barthian input even though this is unacknowledged and indirect. However, the difference in pore size between Recipes 4 and 5 is difficult to discern and their reflectances are similar. But, as far as I can discern, they do focused, pragmatic work. After all, graphologists discern character from the way a person signs a check. The vascular traces are difficult to discern, but at least one appears to show abaxial indentation, a diagnostic feature of Artisophyton. Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography? I take exception to the assumption that simply because I am young I am not able to discern fact from fiction. He cannot sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence. In order to discern these effects, it is necessary to take a look at a few examples from each of these categories. Show More Sentences The sodomitic rape scene has troubled readers who fail to discern that it is one of O'Connor's deliberately grotesque revelations. Cell-phone conversations sapped the attention required to discern important driving cues, Strayer holds. Without any visual aid, while standing in the gallery, one can discern foliage blocking our view of her head. Toads seem to use visual cues for feeding and can see their prey at very low light intensities where humans are unable to discern anything. The lower the power of the desired signal, the more difficult it is to discern it from the noise. The Navy has never trained attack dolphins, as they would not be able to discern allied soldiers from enemy soldiers. They can discern the size, shape, surface characteristics, distance and movement of an object. The ophidian beast began to glow eerily, and Aaron could discern a fine webwork of veins and capillaries running throughout the creature's body. Pentecostals teach that believers must discern whether the utterance has edifying value for themselves and the local church. Simply treating the state as a superstructural entity precludes any conceptual capacity to discern the movement of value in welfare policy. Lovley has been systematically deleting genes for outer membrane cytochromes in order to discern which cytochrome was essential for electricity production. Marx believed that he could study history and society scientifically and discern tendencies of history and the resulting outcome of social conflicts. Rosel's attempt to discern strategies of interpretation in the Septuagint is impeded by the different canons of the Septuagint in various manuscripts. The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color. The Large Electron-Positron Collider operational in 1989 at CERN laboratories near Geneva, Switzerland, can discern particles as small as 10 quintillionths of a meter. The Leges Salica, Ribuaria, and Chamavorum were Carolingian creations, their basis in earlier Frankish reality being difficult for scholars to discern at the present distance. If a man should cast up his accounts once a week, or once a month, he may not be able to discern that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich. Like modern-day Kremlinologists, we all try to discern what each question the Justice asks at oral argument signals about how the Court will rule and on what grounds. Echolocation clicks also contain characteristic details unique to each animal, which may suggest that toothed whales can discern between their own click and that of others. Examples from Classical Literature She could hear his light breathing, she could discern his profile, then the nape of his neck. The second course was so equal that the keenest judges could not discern any vantage. Within the door of the cottage you discern the wife, with her ruddy English cheek. His was evidently a soul attuned to harmonies, quick to discern any accordant or discordant strains. She could just discern the outline of a little house, not unlike a bathing-machine without wheels. There was something very appealing about him that Falkner could not fail to discern. To discern its fallaciousness, requires not acuteness of understanding, so much as a little common honesty. But will and means, In mortals, for the cause ye well discern, With unlike wings are fledge. He flashed the light on the crack and thought he could discern where there had been some chiseling. In the nearer ranks we may discern the variety of ingredients that compose the mass. Nevertheless they could always discern from it that their course, whether stemwards or sternwards, was steadily south. To be sure that brain of his is awry, and has gaps in it, but one can discern here and there thoughts consecutive and concatenate. Below, on the plain, they might also discern the Spanish army drawn up in battalia, awaiting their descent. It is impossible not to discern here the anthropomorphosis of the four seasons. It is more than this, the whole world's map, which you may here discern in its perfectest motion, justling and turning. He was able to discern him, after a little effort, toiling up the steep slopes. Behind the orbs, we now discern the nebulae from which they have been condensed. I could discern clearly, though faintly, a few of the imprints undeniably made by a sole of a tennis shoe. The physical facts couldn't be denied, and beyond the physical facts I could discern nothing. Was there any timespan which you could discern between the first and second shots and what you have described as the flurry? Show More Sentences And for the rest, what do you know of Doubles which those who are uninstructed cannot discern? All I can discern is, that it will, to a dead certainty, turn one way or the other on the day when she passes Noel Vanstone's doors in disguise. Primmie seemed to discern a hint of skepticism even in the cough. And as he surveyed the battue he would gradually discern its tactics. Kundry is the first to discern the approach of the black knight. The sharpest of eyes only discern the bluest and gloomiest objects. I advanced slowly, trying to discern which was the business end. In the roads off Cowes we could discern many yachts at anchor. It appalled her, nevertheless, to discern here, again, a shadowy reflection of the evil that had existed in herself. Many sorrows which he overlooks the deaconess can discern and assuage. Yet they pay no attention that I could discern to the depredation. There seems no diminution in the plague yet, that we can discern. She had an eye to discern, and a courage to seize, an important crisis. It is also easy to discern how legalism helped to create and sustain the current crisis in terms of episcopal decisions over the last decade. It contains a recurring rhythm of sixteenth, dotted sixteenth and thirty-second notes that is difficult to discern. There was still enough light in the steamy cabin to discern objects. One could faintly discern the windows and chimneys, and a dull blur of lights. With jocelin's eyes we discern almost nothing of John Lackland. Thus it is an important task to develop the skills to discern these transcendentals. To learn and discern of his brother the clod, Of his brother the brute, and his brother the God. Show More Sentences Wars, grim wars I discern, and Tiber afoam with streams of blood. Playmore's letter had not prepared me for the serious deterioration in him which I could now discern. When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness almost before it was possible. Even in the dark he could discern the folds of whitest linen. Much time would not be necessary to enable her to discern these unfriendly dispositions. Worn and unhandsome as he had become, it was plain that she did not discern the least fault in his appearance. Quite what made it so good is difficult to discern but I loved it and describing food is ofter like trying to explain why a joke is funny. When I was in Spaceland I heard that your sailors have very similar experiences while they traverse your seas and discern some distant island or coast lying on the horizon. This, and the resumption of my ring, as well as of the bear's grease in moderation, are the last marks I can discern, now, in my progress to seventeen. To discern the important common elements between Blake and Smith, we need first to look at Blake's fundamental concerns, to see the Blake afflatus in a holistic way. It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of discern? Words that rhyme with discern What is the past tense of discern? What is the adverb for discern? What is the adjective for discern? What is the noun for discern? Translations for discern Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words discectomy discarnate discards discarding discarded discardable discernable discernably discerned discerner discerners discernible 7-letter Words Starting With d di dis disc disce discer