Disruptive innovation, they call it, to give it an appearance of being something more than it actually is.
This may serve to create an appearance of doing something to forestall the nightmarish consequences of our failure, but Earth, the climate and future generations will not be fooled.
That is, they condense the appearance of something – a person, a scene, a sequence – and preserve it.
All a person can be sure of is that he is aware of something, an appearance of some sort—say of a bent stick in water.
De Waal's works call up Malevich's colours, and also a meditation on the appearance of something from nothing, though they are still and self-contained, not needing the fizzing of Malevich's persistent theorising.
Clothing, papers piled on a desk, a woman's sleeping cap, the appearance of something as simple as the whiskers on a man's's face...nothing escapes Dickens's attention and his wish for a kind of completion and humor that the reader, trying breathlessly to keep up, can not possibly expect before reading it.
"Something you could give a pass to as an innocuous mistake starts to have the appearance of something more sinister".
Robert Weisberg, a law professor at Stanford University, acknowledged that Arguedas's connection to the appointment of Illston and the selection of a new United States attorney created the appearance of something "dramatic," but he did not really think it was.
You'll develop a musician's "studio-tan" - a grey pallor that gives you the appearance of something David Attenborough has just discovered living on the bottom of the ocean.
Others have capitulated to political pressure and complied -- as did Senator Robert G. Torricelli in 1996 and Gov. Christine Todd Whitman in 1993, when she defeated Mr. Florio -- calculating that the appearance of something to hide is a greater burden than the loss of privacy.
