Sentence examples for appearances of things from inspiring English sources

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.

As was noted earlier, the surviving fragments of the Indalmoi include a line that is plausibly taken to point to the importance, for the Pyrrhonist, of the appearances of things as a basis for decision and action.

Following Gregory of Nyssa, Eriugena holds that the sensible, corporeal, spatio-temporal appearances of things are produced by the qualities or 'circumstances' of place, time, position, and so on, which surround the incorporeal, eternal essence.

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.

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.