discernment

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Gay’s radical openness to possibility leads to subtle discernments of his errors of judgment, such as dismissing the humanity of his dead father to avoid the hurt of his own wounded feelings.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

Prosecutors would do well to read Miller’s discernments.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 11, 2019

That Day Alone is another plangent blare, vibrantly sincere, full of acute social discernments, tremulous with human pity, and, like the works of many social seers, somewhat rambling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Written mostly during Ortega's exile after the fall of Loyalist Spain, this book, like much of his writing, jumbles acute discernments about politics, society, people, side by side with kittenish comment, mental gymnasties, clever stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was pre�minently a natural product; and in him we find indomitable will continually concentrated on faculties which yielded the discernments that made him master of men and master of war.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various