Word: distinguisher
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...detecting some things to which human noses are acutely attuned--such as the stench of rotting eggs--but it can be trained to pick up others most people would never notice. There are limits, however, to how well the e-noses can be educated. Wine connoisseurs, for example, can distinguish fragrances beyond the ken of any chip...
...also wrote that the "nature and the quality of the evidence" made it impossible to distinguish cheating students from those who were merely confused by the assignment's guidelines...
There is nothing clear about ADHD. The diagnosis is based on a checklist of subjective judgments--rating a child's inattention, distractibility, impulsivity and so on. It's hard enough for doctors to distinguish between an energetic teenager and one who has a behavior disorder. How can they make those judgments when the patient is still learning how to talk...
...songs never quite get there. Are they melodious? Yes. Lyrical? Yes. Passionate? Hmmm. The lyrics are, but as far as the mood goes, mellow is a far more appropriate adjective. Each song is contemplative and smooth, but no track is dynamic enough in its own right to ever truly distinguish itself. The title track comes close, but never fully peaks. Also of note are the poignant, emotive "Less Than Strangers" and "The Only One," a haunting arrangement featuring Emmy Lou Harris on harmony vocals. Most of the other tracks have a tendency to blend into one another. However, while Chapman...
America today is a place where one can study porn at universities, and where we care as much about what Britney Spears is reading as what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is. In magazines, books, fashion, design and music, it is becoming difficult to distinguish between what used to be considered elite culture and mass culture. We are entering the age, New Yorker writer John Seabrook posits, of Nobrow (Knopf; 215 pages...