Word: discernible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final work of the first gallery is an imposing monumental image attributed to the Northern Sung painter Fan Kuan, one of the acknowledged masters of Northern Sung landscape painting. Even under the dim lighting to protect the fragile works, one can still discern the painstaking brushwork and elaborate design that many associate with the austerity of Daoism and the harsh climate of Northern China...
...these questions seem trivial in comparison to confusion caused by a discovery we've made in recent viewings of the movies on video: in the entire extant Star Wars trilogy--so far as we have been able to discern--Chewbacca is the only wookie...
...celebrated personalities of the year came and went and blurred into one another. Boris Yeltsin became Ted Kaczynski became Princess Di became all three doing the macarena. While one faintly struggled to discern Rene Russo from Sandra Bullock and Michael Eisner from Michael Ovitz, Madonna singled herself out by producing a child. Setting a high financial standard for single motherhood, she exulted, "This is the greatest miracle of my life"--a cry not generally echoed in parts of the country where 48% of the children were born to single mothers. Rosie O'Donnell threw her a baby shower, her pediatrician...
...mere idea of it fascinated me: Is it a cappella's answer to the League of Justice on the old superhero cartoon "Superfriends"? Is it so exclusive that I'd never even heard of it? Right away, members of the a cappella community made it difficult for me to discern whether I had stumbled upon a typical administrative body or I had sniffed out a cappella's deepest, darkest secret. Crooners refused to comment on it. They denied its existence. They told me it was really no big deal...
...some Warner Bros. movies (the Batman series, I've noticed, has sometimes been brutalized) and praise others, purely as they see fit. The same is true for the music, TV shows and other productions of the far-flung divisions of Time Warner. If any readers or watchdog groups discern a pattern of dishonest judgments, they can (and should) flail...