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The phrase "appearances of something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the way something looks or seems, often in a context where the actual nature may differ from its appearance.
Example: "The appearances of the building suggest it has been recently renovated, but inside, it is still quite old."
Alternatives: "seeming nature of something" or "outward appearances of something".
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"Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent," he writes.
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His pictures have the appearance of something planned and completed.
'Why should the appearance of something offend people?
They put plants in the windows to give the appearance of something other than vacancy.
The real achievement in the past half-decade has been the appearance of something approaching stability in earnings.
That is, they condense the appearance of something – a person, a scene, a sequence – and preserve it.
In our youth-fixated media culture, the appearance of something as wrinkled as Robert Redford's "The Company You Keep" is a bit of a surprise.
The arrangement, said Michael Barasch, a lawyer for the Beddia family, whose partner attended the meeting, "really has the appearance of something that does not smell right".
This would be a carefully informalised (though still very formal) area in which rigid symmetry would relax into the appearance of something more like unregimented nature.
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.
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.
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