The phrase "appearance of things" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing perceptions, impressions, or the way something seems to be at first glance.
Example: "The appearance of things can often be deceiving, leading us to make incorrect assumptions about reality."
Alternatives: "outward appearance" or "seeming nature".
Sometimes the appearance of things that could go wrong is stronger than the things that actually do go wrong.
Physical properties would include shape, weight, strength, texture, and appearance of things and knowledge of how to handle them.
Ah, the appearance of things in the Capitol: Take the money, but not too close to the vote.
(Aury researched 18th-century costume and the book is studded with descriptions of interiors, dress, the appearance of things).
Suddenly there was a better way of recording the physical appearance of things, and artists had to discover new purposes for brush and pigment.
The greatest historical resonance is in the appearance of things: how people once dressed, combed their hair and carried themselves; what cars, stores and neighborhoods looked like.
Literally, phenomenology is the study of "phenomena": appearances of things, or things as they appear in our experience, or the ways we experience things, thus the meanings things have in our experience.
He began to find or to concoct, and then to photograph, artlike appearances of things in city streets.
The giant, too, makes you wonder how anyone like Goya — who, as the art critic John Berger once wrote, knew the appearances of things "in the very movement of his fingers and wrist" — could have painted such a clumsy figure.
"Not only ought young persons (in association with their teachers) be provided a range of experiences for perceiving and noticing," she wrote in a 1981 essay, "Aesthetic Literacy in General Education". "They ought to have opportunities, in every classroom, to pay heed to color and glimmer and sound, to attend to the appearances of things from an aesthetic point of view.
The idea is that we can recognize instances of a kind on the basis of the superficial appearances of things of the kind, while remaining ignorant of their essential nature.
