discerning eye

collocation in English

meaningsofdiscerningandeye

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discerning
adjective
uk
/dɪˈsɜː.nɪŋ/us
/dɪˈsɝː.nɪŋ/
showing good judgment, especially about style ...
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eye
noun[C]
uk
/aɪ/us
/aɪ/
one of the two organs in your face that are used ...
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(Definition ofdiscerningandeyefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdiscerning eye

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Thediscerningeyeparcels out and measures the visual reality of a spectacle that is experientially continuous.
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Thediscerningeyehas been given a merited attention in the theories of perception.
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This work has been copied, but the product is an inferior article, although that is noticeable only to thediscerningeye.
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I reiterate the plea which has been made that our export of tinplate to the soft currency areas should be looked at with a very close anddiscerningeye.
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Why not start saying what we mean instead of elaborating these fantastic monuments of obscurantism to create darkness through which the bright anddiscerningeyeof no judge can pierce?
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The more industrious and well-informed of us may well have gone in search of the less well-known field sites, which, nonetheless, have much to tell thediscerningeye.
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It had a firm basis of undeniable fact, and for the first time thediscerningeyecould see that there really was something to hope for.
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Some of these subtle artifacts are marked or are visible to one with adiscerningeye, but in most places the trails have been obliterated.
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Even those portraits that are not overtly allegorical may be full of meaning to adiscerningeye.
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The painting is full of amazing details for thediscerningeye.
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Some traces of the most recent sedimentary layers remain for thediscerningeyeto discover, however.
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Those students who pursue its program to the higher levels inherit the tenacity of creative problem solvers with the discerning eyes of fine artists.
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