Sentence examples for a deceptive appearance from inspiring English sources

His chess style had a deceptive appearance of simplicity; at his best, he could make the defeat of another master look effortless.

So slim (five feet seven and a half; a hundred and twenty-five pounds) as to give a deceptive appearance of fragility, he is a rather handsome, black-haired, dark-eyed, and, at thirty-five, still boyish-looking man — fastidious, but with no trace of self-consciousness in his manner, and endowed with an acute sensitivity to his surroundings and the people in them.

The appearance of change is just that, a deceptive appearance.

Some will float to the top, so the amount of water may have a deceptive appearance.

Instead, an awkward, stodgy night was given a slightly deceptive appearance by the goals in the last four minutes from Ryan Bertrand, Danny Welbeck and Harry Kane, scoring his second of the night.

… makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself".

On the other hand, one of the oldest works on display is "Lumberjack," which has the deceptive appearance of a wood construction that might have been made by someone who was never out of Appalachia, but it is actually cast (at the Johnson Atelier) in bronze.

This may create the deceptive appearance of a sliding scale regimen in the eyes of nonspecialists.

As the woman's personal drama builds to a furious quest for self-rediscovery, Carruth (who also co-stars as a fellow-victim) infiltrates a world of deceptive appearances with a microscope-like camera.

So despite their perhaps deceptive appearance, there's a chance for users to see fewer ads than usual at present — or at least until the program is expanded enough so that a lack of relevant ads is no longer an issue.

Indeed, the Wrong-Body Account itself may be viewed as response to reality enforcement through a kind of inversion where the body is now viewed as the deceptive appearance which hides the true, concealed gender identity (2014, 399-404).