discerning

Sam Mendes’ searing production of Jez Butterworth’s “The Hills of California” at the Broadhurst Theatre, hands down the best play I saw in a spree of late September playgoing, has become the essential ticket for discerning New York theatergoers this fall.

In the 1970s, she was widely covered for her transformation from a loud, gauche young girl from southern India who entered Bollywood with no knowledge of the Hindi language to a discerning National Award-winning actor who spoke impeccable Urdu and Hindi and brimmed with confidence.

The reality is that people do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real one.

Discerning filmgoers, however, can find while watching "The Shining" that they too in a sense "shine" — if by "shine" one means become woke to how injustices from the past, present and future collapse into each other in ways that are often very, very frightening.

Shein describes this strategy as being “on demand,” but some discerning shoppers call it “ultrafast fashion.”