Word: discerning
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Hornsby explores different pop styles succesfully, but the sources are not hard to discern. "Stranded on Easy Street" takes its boppy synthesizer chords straight from Lee Greenwood, and "Carry the Water" uses the high-pitched guitar pick that has become popular lately (particularly in Little Feat's recent "One Clear Moment...
Saturday at Ohiri Field, it was difficult to discern what was giving the Harvard women's lacrosse team more trouble, the Big Red of Cornell or the sweltering heat...
...reason so few people care about who is elected is that nobody can discern any real differences between the candidates. True, some may be experts in fencing; others may play electric guitar. Discussion of issues is basiclly limited to the question of who can emphasize "a commitment to quality" more times in campaign posters...
...doesn't take much exposure to the residents of Fayette County to discern the profound social conservatism that permeates the mountain communities. One elderly woman at the church lowered her voice to a whisper to say "I hope they ain't any dope at Harvard." I suspect that the most hated phrase in southern West Virginia is "gun control...
Oberhuber and Blumenthal are largely indistinguishable on stage, but that does not detract from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...