The phrase "looks up close" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when describing how something appears when viewed from a short distance.
Example: "The painting looks up close, revealing intricate details that are not visible from afar."
Alternatives: "appears from a short distance" or "seems when examined closely."
The show opens with what could be a costume back lot, where Scarlett O'Hara's green dress from "Gone With the Wind" (1939) looks, up close, as if it were indeed cobbled together from a pair of curtains.
Except for the lips, which are as plump as a pair of cocktail wieners waiting to be wrapped up in their flaky little triangles of dough -- mmm, so delicious, so... trashy -- there is nothing about the way Sandra Bernhard looks, up close, to explain her status as a glamour puss.
"I know I'm supposed to be giving you some kind of moral guidance, but I just can't get over how weird an ear looks up close".
Wednesdays will be a fun learning experience for members of the press pool as they are peppered with questions from Spicer, such as "Not so easy, is it?," and "Don't you feel like a decent man just trying his hardest?" No questions about Russia, taxes, intelligence, health care, or how tired the press secretary looks up close.
You were smart not to allow yourself a look up close".
We passed our first farm, and remarked to each other how happy Provençal cows looked up close, well-fed and well-tended.
But what counts as enhancement or replacement changes when you look up close.
When we look up close, we see that these striated patterns aren't solid, but comprised of changing streams of numbers.
While few people have ever looked up close at a single drop of water -- home to a trillion phytoplankton -- the lives of eight Billion people, in fact all life on Earth, depend upon their well being.
DO NOT leave home without figuring out your smart phone Your accommodations and many cafes have wifi, so you can use your smart phone to check emails, use guide apps and look up closing times.
Ashford, it turns out, when you look up-close, is as exotic and fascinating as anywhere else you might choose to think of.
