The phrase "appears to be utterly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing an observation or opinion about something that seems to be completely or entirely a certain way.
Example: "The project appears to be utterly doomed without proper funding and support."
Alternatives: "seems to be completely" or "looks to be entirely".
But they need to say something to rationalize their allegiance to a gun lobby that appears to be utterly indifferent to mass murder.
Ben Carson used a quote from Stalin – that in order to destroy a healthy body "you have to undermine three principles: their spiritual life, their patriotism and their morality" – that appears to be utterly and entirely fabricated.
Arguably, the most on form of these venerable sages, however, is Paul Simon, who, at 69, appears to be utterly ageless – his voice soft and light, his guitar-playing as fluid and dexterous as his words.
Ethically, the conduct of lawyers in the Justice Department appears to be utterly inconsistent with a prosecutor's professional duty to serve the cause of justice.
He appears to be utterly clueless with respect to solar energy and its potential to alleviate suffering in the developing world.
Nor will we get it from John McCain, who loves The Surge -- and will no doubt be equally turned on by The Pause -- but who appears to be utterly clueless about the political realities shaping Iraq.
But such literal interpretations of hair appear to be utterly passé, even if the hairstyles themselves are not.
At the hearing, the S.E.C. and Bank of America's lawyers appeared to be utterly unprepared for the judge's blunt, elemental, but tough-minded questions.
Yet on Monday night, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the fictional reincarnation of Salvador Agrón, who as a teenager became immortalized in the tabloids as the knife-wielding Capeman, appeared to be utterly in his element.
