The phrase "a certain appearance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that has a specific look or visual quality that is not precisely defined.
Example: "The painting had a certain appearance that captivated everyone who walked by."
Alternatives: "a particular look" or "a specific visual quality".
"It creates a certain appearance that we don't want to create".
"He built a swimming pool in his own garden, to which only boys of a certain age, of a certain appearance were allowed into it," Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told me recently.
An individual, momentary consciousness does not need to be possessed by a self in order to have a certain appearance.
A successful representation of objects in literature is as a collection of patches, or parts, with a certain appearance and position.
The proposed ordinance would have allowed an exception when physical appearance is a bona fide occupational qualification (BFOQ), when a certain appearance is required in order to carry out essential functions of the job.
"Three men of a certain appearance are ringing the doorbell.
However, Invert's experience also represents the tomato as having a certain salient appearance property (call it '\ AP_{G}\)'), while Nonvert's experience represents the tomato as having a certain salient appearance property \ AP_{R})\).
That I have a certain physical appearance is natural (any of a wide variety of childrearing regimens would have produced pretty much this same physical appearance) but that my appearance renders me ineligible for marriage or romantic liaisons is a social fact (social arrangements bring this about and different social arrangements might undo it).
Other reasons are to prevent the spread of weeds and invasive species into private gardens and pressure from local communities to maintain a certain aesthetic appearance.
When a person looks at what he thinks is a physical object, such as a chair, what he is directly apprehending is a sense-datum, a certain visual appearance.
But here is the chronology of events that are worth pondering as concerns about the Mets' immediate future obfuscate what once seemed like a certain postseason appearance for a second successive season: *Aug.
