Definition of Discerning

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Definition of Discerning
	Discerning of Discern Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Related Definitions: Acute, Discern, Of, Sagacious, Sharp-Sighted, Shrewd

Discerning Quotations

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
David Foster Wallace

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Manolo Blahnik

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
Don Bluth

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.
Joel Barlow

I think grown-ups don't go to movies because they're much more discerning.
Joseph Bologna

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page

Discerning Translations

discerning in German is unterscheidend, erkennend
discerning in Norwegian is forstandig, skarpsindig

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