All 4 Uses of
discerning
in
The House of Mirth
- Most timidities have such secret compensations, and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self-depreciation.†
Chpt 1.2
- The certainty that she could marry Percy Gryce when she pleased had lifted a heavy load from her mind, and her money troubles were too recent for their removal not to leave a sense of relief which a less discerning intelligence might have taken for happiness.†
Chpt 1.4
- He leaned back, spreading himself farther across the seat, as if dilated by the joyful sense of his own discernment.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- To Gerty Farish, keeping watch over her with a tenderer if less discerning eye than Mrs. Fisher's, the results of the struggle were already distinctly visible.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(discerning) showing good judgment or good taste and/or the perception of things not easily perceived by most people