The phrase "appear more reasonable" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing perceptions or judgments about someone's actions, ideas, or proposals, suggesting that they seem more logical or acceptable.
Example: "After considering the evidence, her argument began to appear more reasonable to the committee."
Alternatives: "seem more rational" or "look more justifiable".
"It does project his own world view, but it can make him appear more reasonable".
Onward to the GOP debates! Using Trump as a foil could make Jeb appear more reasonable and sympathetic on immigration, at least to general election voters.
By analogy, a drug-testing program may appear more reasonable when it applies to all employees within a given group, not just those who stir the boss's whimsy.
But if the only challenge for Mr. Obama is to appear more reasonable than his opponent -- who believes the federal income tax is unconstitutional -- the bar will not be very high.
Prof. Bruce Cain, director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, said Mr. Bustamante had helped make Mr. Davis appear more reasonable to the state's centrist voters, including the independents and moderate Republicans who might determine the election's outcome.
For Democrats, the danger now is a series of shiny objects offered by Republicans to get Mr. Obama to break his pledge not to negotiate over the debt limit, all intended to appear more reasonable than the "defund Obamacare" campaign of Senator Ted Cruz and his House cronies.
One member of Aung Saan Suu Kyi's inner circle told me last year that while he had no faith in Than Shwe — a meeting between him and The Lady in the 1990s had been a disaster — "Thein Sein appears more reasonable.
Instead, it appears more reasonable that there is a deep geothermal reservoir (i.e. a zone of high permeability) within the Farma unit within which convective heat transport reduces vertical temperature gradients.
It therefore appears more reasonable to expect that farmers operate under partial asset integration where the farm assets are less influential than farm income in affecting risk appetite and therefore risk decisions.
