Word: discernibly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...style derives from a hard-won discipline. Oliver Tambo, his former law partner and the longtime leader of the A.N.C. in exile who died last year, once described the youthful Mandela as "passionate, emotional, sensitive, quickly stung to bitterness and retaliation by insult and patronage." Who can discern those characteristics in the controlled Nelson Mandela of today? He now prizes rationality, logic, compromise, and distrusts sentiment. Prison steeled him, and over the decades he came to see emotion not as an ally but as a demon to be shunned. How was the man who emerged from prison different from...
Because so many members of the phylum Final Clubicus are also members of the phylum Jockicus, the two can be difficult to discern. The important thing to remember here is that, while both try to drink beer as if it were water and both love sports as if they mattered, some members of the Final Clubicus are not actually of the phylum Jockicus...
...government. Others are extralegal but have been authorized by bureaucrats and politicians in Moscow expecting a piece of the profits. Still others are hatched locally and executed clandestinely by factory supervisors. In the scramble for hard currency, the line between government-approved transactions and private enterprise becomes difficult to discern, raising questions about the fate of Russia's arsenal of nuclear and conventional weaponry. The U.S. has found it hard enough to convert obsolete sectors of its own defense establishment to the production of consumer goods. In Russia, where military factories are rarely reliable sources of goods that...
Whoever follows Blackmun will find a court in which the sharp divisions of 10 years ago have subsided for now and the ideological direction is hard to discern. The centrist bloc that has emerged includes Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter and probably the most recent new Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She is almost certainly a supporter of abortion rights. Since she replaced Byron White, an opponent, the court majority to uphold Roe v. Wade appears secure...
...ability to read certain, free publications paternalistically assumes that readers are not intelligent enough to come to the right conclusions on their own. Those who prevent others from reading a free publication act as censors precisely because they assume that they have the greater moral and intellectual insight to discern the good ideas from the bad ones, and that they have the right to impose this understanding on others...