Sentence examples for take on the appearance from inspiring English sources

Even now, the street's character has begun to take on the appearance of the monoculture -- the marketplace version of one-party rule.

As a creative art, makeup enables the player to take on the appearance of almost any type of character.

As conditions worsen, the radial diameters of the secondary tissue cells decrease and the walls may thicken, and the wood may take on the appearance of latewood.

Or as the postmodernist Jean Baudrillard would have put it: "Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality".

That was very important to me, for them to fly above the construct of the show, to take on the appearance of living, breathing souls and perhaps, for a moment, gain their humanity and transcend their non-origin origins.

Eventually she will be able to take on the appearance of other people and things, and so she really has to decide, 'Why do I have these powers, and what am I meant to use them for?

With the objective of preventing a coup, one of the members took on the appearance of XIII to confuse the opposite side and force it to make errors.

Sadly, it was not only me who took on the appearance of a war hero but poor old Somerville too.

And while my legs fared better – there were no lasting wounds – they nonetheless took on the appearance of skinned sausages.

In each successive stage the composition becomes increasingly stylized and mechanical, eventually taking on the appearance of commercial printing.

Thereafter, this took on the appearance of a rout with Friedrich's third followed in the dying seconds by Klose's 52nd international goal on his 100th appearance.