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A few reviewers discern "tongue-in-cheek" humor in the use of sex symbol Gibson as a "poster boy for schizophrenia," and declare the film smarter than "other high-ticket summer fare" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). (Click here for the Conspiracy Theory site.)
In 1985, while writing a review of Sylvester Stallone's grotesque rabble-rouser Rocky IV , I went back and watched the original Rocky to see if--to borrow the controlling metaphor of Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg --"through the thin membranes you [could] clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
Mavens can discern between makers at a glance.
An especially intriguing case is pleurmalion, the tubeshaped device used by the sorcerer Rhialto to discern the location of a precious textual prism, even from great distances in space and time.
(Origin unknown; not from Gaelic)” I think it hardly fanciful to discern a note of Calvinist disapproval in this curt disclaimer.