The phrase "appears to be devoid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that seems to lack a particular quality or element.
Example: "The report appears to be devoid of any substantial evidence to support the claims made."
Alternatives: "seems to lack" or "appears to lack".
Bostrom suspects that the answer is simple: space appears to be devoid of life because it is.
However, the engineering science literature appears to be devoid of either experimental or theoretical studies of such systems.
However, its addiction working group appears to be devoid of scientists – and the CJS makes the rather dubious assertion that over 1.5m people are dependent on cannabis when the British Crime Survey shows that number using the drug on a monthly basis.
Rather, the need to have one's children mark the end of high school in this way reflects a breakdown in the priorities of parents who encourage and provide an extreme level of materialism that appears to be devoid of social and moral value.
Until such extraordinary evidence arrives, there's only one reasonable conclusion: our galaxy, as best as we can tell, appears to be devoid of these wished-for alien megastructures.
We have only looked at one Australian isolate, but it appears to be devoid of active transposons (Additional file 1).
If the comments are anything to go by, his regular readers appear to be devoid of humanity, reflection or any sense of irony.
The Big Ten and Big East appeared to be devoid of legit title contenders when the season started, and nothing has changed in that regard.
The culture of the organization "appeared to be devoid of both the ethical standards and internal controls sufficient to protect the integrity of this vital revenue-producing program," one report said.
To accommodate the curvature necessary to form a particle with a diameter of ∼120 nm — the size of the HIV-1 virion — the immature Gag lattice is continuous but contains gaps that appear to be devoid of Gag protein39,40,41 (Fig. 1).
Michele and Agron both sport gloopy, Day-Glo make up, and the occasional manic grin doesn't stop the whole thing appearing to be devoid of both humour and imagination – even more so when compared with the clever brilliance of the show they are promoting.
