Word: discerning
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From the well-preserved contents of middens, scientists using radiocarbon dating can peer thousands of years into the past to discern when climates changed, why civilizations withered and how plants and animals migrated...
...screen. A poignant scene of Cesar and Nestor in a Times Square photo booth was influenced by Andy Warhol; it replicates a visit Glimcher and his family made to have their snaps taken for a Warhol portrait. Close watchers of The Mambo Kings will also discern the phantom signatures of a few revered auteurs. "I like Bob Fosse's films very much," Glimcher says. "So the strip joint in my film and the close-up of a decrepit stripper's knee give off echoes of Sweet Charity. Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is a film that means the world...
...What's sexy?" the guys asked us, unable to discern the difference between what is sexy and sex. "Should I come naked...
Pondering Harvard's answers to the question, I have tried to discern what it is about those responses that repulses (and attracts) me. In what way does this standard prove deficient? How exactly does it deprive the individual person of worth? And what might be offered to correct the deficiencies I see in Harvard's solutions to problems relating to this question...
...psychologists therefore designed a test focused on the ability to discern and later recall the location of objects in a complex, random pattern. In series of tests, student volunteers were given a minute to study a drawing that contained such unrelated objects as an elephant, a guitar and a cat. Then Silverman and Eals presented their subjects with a second drawing containing additional objects and told them to cross out those items that had been added and circle any that had moved. Sure enough, the women consistently surpassed the men in giving correct answers...