Word: discernible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason so few people care about who is elected is that nobody can discern any real differences between the candidates. True, some may be experts in fencing; others may play electric guitar. Discussion of issues is basiclly limited to the question of who can emphasize "a commitment to quality" more times in campaign posters...
...doesn't take much exposure to the residents of Fayette County to discern the profound social conservatism that permeates the mountain communities. One elderly woman at the church lowered her voice to a whisper to say "I hope they ain't any dope at Harvard." I suspect that the most hated phrase in southern West Virginia is "gun control...
Oberhuber and Blumenthal are largely indistinguishable on stage, but that does not detract from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...
...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...
...majority of West Germans accepted the necessity of a heavy U.S. military presence as long as they could discern a clear Soviet military threat from the East. But with the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the end of Stalinism in the East bloc and the progress on arms control, Germans have lost that fear. Resentment, long repressed, burst into the open in 1988 when three Italian jets collided during an air show at the U.S. Ramstein air base, killing 70 spectators and pilots. Although the accident had little to do with U.S. military operations, it galvanized public protests against ubiquitous...