discern

discern the road in the dark

the discerning few; the fortunate few.

she could faintly discern the shape of a skull.

the brasserie attracts discerning customers.

The man couldn't discern between right and wrong.

I can discern no difference between the two policies.

It was so dark outside that he was just able to discern the road in the dark.

I soon discerned that the man was lying.

Some people find it difficult to discern blue from green.

It is often difficult to discern the truth of an event from a newspaper report.

She has a discerning palate.

It was difficult to discern that despite all the abstruse vocabulary the professor was really a charlatan.

discerned some inequities in the criminal justice system.

delicacies that beguile even the most discerning gourmet;

It is easy to discern a connection between high rents and the lack of housing.

Even with a magnifying glass I couldn't discern any imperfections in the porcelain.

Many in the audience lack the background and taste to discern a good performance of the sonata from a bad one.

We discerned the figure of a man clinging to the mast of the wrecked ship.

Moreover, a few glimmers of hope can be discerned amid the gloom.

The adult observers were able to reliably discern an assortment of emotions on the babies faces.

Furthermore, the computer cannot discern context and intended meaning the same way a human can.

But it was also easy to discern political motives.

The other half of the dilemma is for the public to discern what they are fighting for.

And here too, we can discern a subtle shift.

Anything earlier than that, though, was tough to discern.

And together, see how well we do in discerning the babies' emotions.

Leaders would have to quickly discern the blip on their radar screens and decide whether to respond in kind.

Analysts said it was hard to discern any impact from those releases.