Sample Sentences for
discerning
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    She has a discerning eye for talent.
    discerning = having good judgment
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    How despicably I have acted!... I, who have prided myself on my discernment!... Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.  (source)
    discernment = good judgment
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    I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.  (source)
    discernment = perception of things not easily perceived by most people
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    He turns, eyes narrowing into discerning slits.  (source)
    discerning = seeing things others might miss; or forming judgments as he looks
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    ...are hateful to the gods and to all persons of discernment.  (source)
    discernment = good judgment
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    Kid Sampson cocked his blond eyebrows discerningly and rose to co-operate.†  (source)
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    Most of us have difficulty believing that a 275-pound football lineman could have a lively and discerning intellect.  (source)
    discerning = showing good judgment
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    Do we not say every day, 'Are not all the mighty as naught before Thee, the men of renown as though they had not been, the wise as if without knowledge, and the men of understanding as if without discernment'?  (source)
    discernment = good judgment
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    ...heated garages, marble bathrooms, balconies, and high-end appliances, all for the discerning, affluent professional.  (source)
    discerning = showing good taste
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    On one side of that divide was a girl of five or ten or twenty with a quiet demeanor and a whimsical imagination who relied upon him for companionship and counsel; while on the other side was a young woman of discernment and grace who need rely on no one but herself.†  (source)
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    She followed where the water might be dripping, and her discerning eye skidded to a stop on the floor near the couch.  (source)
    discerning = seeing things not easily seen by most people
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    People who remarked on his looks did so belatedly, in a tone of surprise, as if they were congratulating themselves on their powers of discernment.†  (source)
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    The '80s was a long decade (ten whole years), and Halliday didn't seem to have had very discerning taste.†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.  (source)
discerning = detecting
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