Word: discern
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...save her family from imminent death; she falls down a hole and into a world of effulgent psychedelia. The Bluth artists boast that more than 600 colors were used in the 1.5 million drawings that compose this 82-min. adventure. The eye of a Douanier Rousseau might discern each hue; others can simply open their eyes, and their mouths, in appreciative pleasure...
...centuries monks followed unchanging, intricate patterns of prayer and work while withdrawing from the world to try to discern God in their own lives. Seeking the same goal, the brothers of Weston have developed new forms of prayer and work that draw them into the outside world in ways uncharacteristic of contemplative monks. Small and simple, a fledgling beside centuries-old Benedictine monasteries, Weston Priory has become a beacon of new directions in monasticism since its founding in 1953 by German-born Abbot Leo Rudloff. At the time, Rudloff, who also headed the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem...
...events in a more precise fashion-to figure out just how much of it had to do with the idiosyncrasies of this University, with the fact that it tool place in 1980, and with my own personality. My guess is that although a seasoned alum might be able to discern what was characteristically Harvard (or, I suppose, Radcliffe) about what I did from January 19th to the 21st, 1980, my classmates would be best at imagining how I felt at the time. Even those who weren't Crimson editors could, in a word, relate...
...arguing that Hinckley could discern what was real and what was not real, Dietz contradicted the defense testimony of four medical experts, who had said Hinckley had lost touch with reality and was driven by fantasies to shoot the president...
...gentle space elf who at first glance seems as homely as a turtle without its shell yet eventually proves as beautiful as an enchanted frog, must find a rescuer. And the rescuer must be a child, whose Galahad strength only E.T. and the moviegoer can immediately discern. The child is Elliott (Henry Thomas), a thin, quiet, wise-faced lad of ten who makes initial contact in a time-honored American fashion: by playing catch with a softball. With the help of his older brother Michael (Robert MacNaughton) and younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), Elliott must battle the elements and some...