Word: discerning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maintaining that most people discern the female body in simply medical terms--equating the body with the functions of menopause or menstruation only--she questioned how people have traditionally understood the strengths and weaknesses of women...
There are many complicated factors that fed into the tragedy in Littleton. It is too easy to simply blame guns and fall back on standard gun-control rhetoric. Rather, concerned citizens ought to look deeper and discern the less obvious forces that are feeding this country's epidemic of violence. --Noah D. Oppenheim '00 Adam M. Taub...
...average, are at their lowest in decades. This is not the stuff of sudden price hikes in consumer items. "It's beyond me how anyone can be worried about inflation," economist Allen Sinai at Primark Decision Economics says flatly. So exactly what do these masters of the universe discern...
...first sight, especially due to its placement near some of Kelly's transfers of window frames, one might mistake Study for Seaweed for window glass being broken by the intrusive head of a nail or perhaps the artist's pencil. In fact, it is sometimes extremely difficult to discern the content of these paintings. But that is not the point. You see, Kelly added the descriptive names to these works as an afterthought years later...
...perhaps the greatest disappointmentwas the inability to clearly discern the wordsbeing sung, which, even if a person doesn'tunderstand a word of Italian is vital to the fullenjoyment of the opera and perhaps even moreimportant in that scenario. Although an equalquality of clarity in comparison to CD studioversions cannot be justly expected, it was shownthat certain voices were more fully comprehendiblethan others. Unfortunately, the lead roles ofButterfly (Paula Delligatti) and Pinkerton (LuisLima) were more adept at singing passages drivenby emotive tendencies than they were at filling inall those passages of recitative (sung speech ordialogue). Recitative was a significant portion ofthe...