Word: discernibly
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...Kong press labels her as arrogant, greedy, cruel and uncooperative, precisely because she doesn't play by the same rules as everyone else. It has been painful but has also helped her develop a thick shell: she is obsessively private and beneath the various Shu Qi personas, one can discern the sad heart of a lonely, ultimately underloved, little girl...
...computer between themselves and the cutlery. Here's how the experimental software works. You don an electrode-studded cap that monitors brain waves and sends data to a computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax. When the computer detects signals from a calm brain, the spoon begins to wilt...
...Behind her Western education and fluency in European languages was a deep sense of India. She was superstitious, spiritual and saw conspiracies everywhere. She adored the crowds that flocked to her rallies and gave her the affection she craved. But it is hard to discern from this book whether she was strongly principled or just enjoyed power. "History," according to Frank, "is not going to remember Indira Gandhi for any one thing?for a coherent strategy, ideology, policy or vision." This is not a political biography. And anyone who turns to it thinking they will see a picture...
...internal reflections, which comes easy during long afternoons idling on entryway stoops or lying comfortably in the shadow of a tree. Spring presents a chance to reflect on choices made and paths taken, to assess the past year, and, for those of us who are graduating, to discern the future...
...called for student membership in the Administrative Board and a formal student role in the selection of the University president. It does not matter if a subject may have been handled by administrators in the past; the staff should uphold at all times the ability of elected students to discern what their peers want and act capably to effect it -- through formal channels, not "wish lists...