Even Robert MacPherson, a topologist and faculty member in mathematics at the institute, made a rare social appearance.
May's performance, rooted in slight but suggestive gestures, is a study in how we might differentiate between social appearance and the more fundamental self, between mere mannerism and real soul.
Like Statovci, I fled my country, not because of war but because of laws that criminalized being openly queer; as a trans woman, I fled, too, from the social appearance of a gender that did not define the contours of me, knowing, like Bekim, that something in me would shatter if I did not.
The swath, as represented in Saul Dibb's film, seems less than formidable; the heroine's political acumen is displayed early on, in repartee at dinner, but then left largely to wilt, and her most memorable social appearance is a drunken stagger, during which her hedge-size wig catches fire.
In these times -- where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance -- what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.
In the case of our patients with psoriasis, gender differences in adaptation to the disease may be accounted for also by social factors influencing self-perception and social appearance in particular.
The effect in the gadget realm is further amplified by social appearances.
The film director also recalls that both his parents were concerned about social appearances and about doing "the done thing".
The massive turnout at Jobs 60+ may have revealed only the tip of the problem because India's middle class is adept at keeping up social appearances.
Though she made occasional social appearances in her last years — the banker David Rockefeller gave her a 100th birthday party at the Rockefeller family's Pocantico Hills estate in 2002 — she had become all but a recluse toward the end.
Though she made occasional social appearances in her last years — David Rockefeller gave her a 100th birthday party at the Rockefeller family's Hudson Valley estate in 2002 — she had become all but a recluse toward the end.
