Word: discerning
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...remarkably agreeable married man (the excellent Peter Friedman) that's not going anywhere, and she has an obscure desire to make up for past hostilities by placing her old man in a fancy nursing home. As her brother Jon points out, the patient really won't be able to discern the difference between that and more affordable accommodations. Jon, however, is a somewhat withdrawn, phlegmatic and therefore somewhat unpersuasive man. A slightly shabby scholar in dismal Buffalo, he's writing a book on Brecht, while doing his best to avoid what seems to be a promising relationship or, for that...
...sleeves. Luckily, for those of you who need to relive the magic, Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore’s lighthearted romantic comedy “Fever Pitch” (2005) remains a solid home-run flick to hold you over until spring training. While Lindsey (Barrymore) tries to discern if schoolteacher Ben (Fallon) is more smitten with her or the Sox, you can watch the team sink one after another into deep left field. But if that’s not enough (for those 21 years of age and older, that is), take this off-season remedy...
...test I've devised as a supporter of universal coverage enacted in economically rational ways--the guesswork and knee jerk can be taken out of the equation. With three simple questions--the kind that can be dropped casually in conversation or on national TV during a debate--anyone can discern whether a Republican's approach to health care is truly pitiless or merely unsympathetic. A look at how the HCCAT scores Romney's Massachusetts plan and the health-care tax deduction just announced by Rudy Giuliani shows how easy...
...worry about that? Sure I do," Grigsby says the U.S. commander. He said he trusts the politicians and security chiefs he deals with at his level. But the loyalties of the force as a whole are more difficult to discern. "The further you get down in the organization," he said, "I don't know...
...blame the kitchen. I’m caretaking a house this summer, equipped with an enviably stocked kitchen that sports a copious array of bizarre and specialized cutlery, none of which I can even begin to name, let alone discern its functionality. But this hasn’t stopped me in the past week from putting together a layered potato, blue cheese, pear, fennel, and caramelized onion timbale; whipping up apricot cupcakes or concocting a spring pasta with chicken sausage, artichoke hearts, red pepper, eggplant, and zucchini. I hand-pack my own hamburgers; I’ve creamed, broiled, double...