Word: discernibly
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...poetic quality? To the contrary, had Baker spent more time and thought on his survey, he would have found well-rounded verse, perhaps even a new renaissance in the poetry of the past two decades. Greater quantity does not necessarily diminish quality, but merely makes it more difficult to discern, as Lowell intimated...
...didn't take him long to discern important differences in the low-key, but joyfully enthusiastic Restic manner;-it is impossible to talk to Joe Restic without being infected by the sheer force of his football imagination...
...opponents of a ceiling seem right in arguing that the benefits of incumbency, particularly in congressional elections, are as important as funds. How can any law make up for the free time and free space that the press and TV lavish on an office holder? How can the public discern the line separating the political and the official acts of an incumbent? Even without effective spending limits to hamper their challengers, more than 90% of House members who seek re-election win another term...
...Random House imprint and overlarge type lend weight to the suspicion. So the temptation is simply to abandon the volume, to file it away on the already overcrowded shelf of revolutionary beiles-lettres, to condemn it to be read only by confused, embattled parents in fruitless attempts to discern some sort of message from across the barricades...
...very harshly and severely critical of it, as I have been and will be; in fact, at the point in which their rhetoric expresses disregard of human life and human dignity, I stand aside and I say no, as I will say no to the war machine. But I discern changes in our radical youth, including the Weatherman. And again I have hope for them, hope they will not be wedded to violence...