tell the difference

"As a parent, you can tell the difference between a scream of play and a scream of terror," he said.

"You couldn't tell the difference of a car with a petrol or diesel engine, I would like to say the same about an electric car," he said.

As the great student of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt explained, freedom and democracy depend on being able to tell the difference between facts and falsehoods.

When we see them coming, we tell ourselves that they mark the dividing line between democracy and fascism, and that we can definitely tell the difference.

“Yes, it needs work,” Hahn acknowledged, as Baucum helped a woman who couldn’t tell the difference between the Hall of Administration and the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.