Word: discerning
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...monitor is composed of tiny optic sensors that measure the levels of thousands of different fats, proteins, carbohydrates and other molecules in the capillaries just under the skin. Then the devices transmit all this information to the central computer screen at the front of the room. The pediatrician can discern at a glance whether his charges are exhibiting optimal health...
Participants conduct research about religious communities across the United States, Eck said. The project attempts "to discern the ways in which plurality is both conspicuous and invisible in American public life...
SINCE DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN AND VICTORY HAS MANY fathers, it is virtually impossible to discern parentage of a lousy idea. Consider George Bush's proposal to cut the salaries of top federal employees. In a round of calls, the relevant players deny authorship of the President's scheme: The Bush- Quayle campaign refers you to the White House, which sends you to the Office of Personnel Management, where the buck is passed to the President's budget office. No one knows, and no one wants to know. Most claim they first learned of this idiocy when they watched Bush...
During my first year of college, I was known for one skill: being able to tell what was for dinner in the Union from the middle of the Yard. I could discern the faint differences between the aroma of the scorched oil they used to cook fried chicken and the slightly pungent, greasy scent of spicy waffle fries. You could never get Hamburger Extravaganza past...
...Presley, the most painful thing about the ruling was that Thomas took part in it. Because the black jurist had concurred in it, many blacks found it hard to discern its potentially damaging impact on their political aspirations. "Black people here learned a lesson from this," says Presley. "Just because he's black does not necessarily mean that he's positive...