Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starting at age eight, for reasons that are still unclear, Glennie's auditory nerves gradually deteriorated and she lost most of her hearing. Today she can just barely discern the loud ring of a telephone right next to her ear, and she can sense rather than hear the rumble of a jet plane overhead. Her determination and natural talent, however, were enough to qualify her for London's Royal Academy of Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people...
...this way, between questions of literary style and questions relating to the wider political culture, makes Harper's both a brave and a very relevant work. He himself insists that, far from being a futile exercise, postmodern theory still has useful work to do: "Despite what we can discern in a lot of postmodern theory as the assertion of a lack of grounding... it seems to me that we willy-nilly constitute such authorities and authenticities every day-necessary." But although theory can alert us to "the constituted and contingent nature of those touchstones...it is less useful...
...report also attempts to discern the motivation of the criminals, the location of the crime and whether offenses are committed against strangers or acquaintances...
...largely silent throughout the entire affair. It had been unnerving to turn to the papers every day and see "administration officials," "sources close to the White House" and other nebulous characters responding to the charges. And the president still has not taken any initiative to help the public discern between truth and rumor...
Since 50,000 doses of acid weigh less than a penny, it is hard to discern just how much pure LSD is involved. But the government should try a bit harder that this. Weighing the vessel the acid is in and using that as the actual weight of the drug is analogous to busting someone at Customs in Miami for coke possession and then including the weight of the 727 that they flew in on. There is, as we all know, no glut of prison cells in America; the justice system chooses who will fill them with the severity...