Word: discerned
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...novel described Lolita as a "mixture of tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...
...commission was circumspect in assigning blame to high places. But it did point out that Congress has the responsibility for funding the EEOC adequately. Commission studies did not discern "any substantial period in the past when enforcement was at a uniformly high level of effectiveness." The Nixon Administration, despite promises to make existing laws work rather than seek new civil rights statutes, has not improved upon the record...
...unusually strong language that, by causing a world glut of dollars, the huge U.S. deficits "form the monetary breeding ground for a continuing international inflationary process." If worldwide inflation continues too long, he said, worldwide recession is "inescapable." The B.I.S. annual report added that it is "hard to discern how the U.S. authorities expect, by their own actions, to correct the balance of payments...
...necessary to agree with the agitprop to discern in Playwright Lamb a deft lyricist with barbed wit and a no-nonsense lucidity about contemporary man-woman relationships. Papp moves an able cast around with fluent precision; as the other woman, April Shawhan is certainly one of the loveliest warriors who ever enlisted in the battle of the sexes...
...Prime Minister Harold Wilson told a TV interviewer, it happened to a painting by Rubens and Artist Frans Snyders that hangs at the P.M.'s country house, Chequers. Although the canvas was supposed to depict Aesop's fable of the lion and the mouse, Churchill could barely discern the mouse. One day he took brush in hand to highlight it. "But it's still difficult to see," Wilson admitted. Would he try to improve it further? "I wouldn't touch up a Rubens " said Wilson, "still less a Rubens touched up by a Churchill...