Word: discerning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they are learning about the viciousness of slavery and segregation for the very first time. Unfortunately, the film does little to deepen the knowledge of its audience. Though its producers say the movie is fictional, they so artfully commingle fact and invention that many viewers, whose ability to discern a whopper when they see one has been obliterated by an age of TV docudramas, are convinced of its veracity. They leave the theater believing a version of history so distorted that it amounts to a cinematic lynching of the truth...
...line between being theoretical and being relevant is a thin one, and scholars say Baker and Gates are part of a new generation of Black academics whose own experience makes them suited to discern just what the line...
...question is nonbinding, meaning that it only tries to discern public opinion on the issue and that representatives are not required to take any action on the outcome," said Philip Griffiths, assistant director of the Cambridge Election Commission...
That concert was several continents back. Since then, Rachlevsky has lived in Israel, Canada and the U.S., but in some ways the violinist, now bearded and barrel-chested, is still squinting into the audience to discern the identity of his benefactors. Lately, it seems, they are as elusive as his long-ago Moscow audience...
Surrounded by sometimes contradictory, some-times compatible impressions of the USSR, we found ourselves grappling with these disparate images of the "real" Soviet Union in an effort to define for ourselves the true nature of Soviet society. In our struggle to discern what was real and what was facade, what was planned and what was spontaneous, we naturally found ourselves confronting the second question: What about perestroika and glasnost? Could they really work...