The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personalappearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Apparentlikeness; the way which something or someoneappears to others.
Some people say I'm shallow because I care so much about myappearance.
2016 February 4, Mark Hudson, “KAWS, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, review: 'hypnotically compelling'”, inThe Telegraph[1]:
KAWS’s first sculptures were limited edition toys for the Japanese brand Bounty Hunter, and the stylised figures distributed around YSP in a variety of postures – shielding their eyes from the sun, seated in apparent contemplation or leading a child-sized version of themselves over the sward – have theappearance of gigantic toys, with their instant legibility and machine-honed surfaces.
And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were theappearance of fire, until the morning.
2003,Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.9, at p.150, 151:
'Never be taken in by falseappearancesʻ wasSwift's habitual satirical message. 'In most Corporeal Beings, which have fallen under my Cognizance, the Outside hath been infinitely preferable to the In,' he elsewhere proclaimed. [...] The sordid reality beneath the mask haunted him: was all civilisation just dirt and derangement at heart?[…] Evidently man was not thehomo rationalis he pretended to be but rather, at best,homo rationis capax ─ a creature capable of rationality, though by implication falling short.
Catholicism teaches that the Eucharist, while remaining under the physicalappearance of bread and wine, becomes really and truly the body and the blood of Christ.
The act ofappearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character.
A person makes hisappearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator.
David Beckham's firstappearance with the LA Galaxy at Giants Stadium against the New York Red Bulls last night drew a crowd of 66237.
