| A similar hesitation over the baptism of Jesus by John can be discerned in Luke's rehandling of Mark's account of the baptism of Jesus. |
| An authorial motive can be discerned in Austen's having made her heroine's father a marine. |
| But we live not only with positive general principles but with what Tocqueville discerned as contradicting actualities. |
| That this quality is rarely discerned in his other signed paintings is hardly surprising, given the restricted subject matter of those works. |
| There appears to be a common logic that can be discerned behind the list of these pleiotropic changes in cell metabolism. |
| My nostrils had discerned the insidious whiff of cigarette smoke, and, sure enough, a dark corner revealed a few glorious, glowing tips. |
