"the appearance of things" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to the way something looks, or how it seems to the observer. You can use it in a sentence when describing the outward appearance of something or someone, or when talking about the impression something gives. For example: - "The appearance of things can be deceiving, so always look deeper before making judgments." - "The appearance of things may change with time, but the essence remains the same." - "She was known for her impeccable taste and attention to detail, and every piece of furniture in her home reflected her refined sense of style. However, despite the opulent appearance of things, she always made sure to create a welcoming and cozy atmosphere for her guests."
Sometimes the appearance of things that could go wrong is stronger than the things that actually do go wrong.
Ah, the appearance of things in the Capitol: Take the money, but not too close to the vote.
(Aury researched 18th-century costume and the book is studded with descriptions of interiors, dress, the appearance of things).
The greatest historical resonance is in the appearance of things: how people once dressed, combed their hair and carried themselves; what cars, stores and neighborhoods looked like.
It's no accident that each of these men saw his art emanating from a world that exists somewhere beyond the appearance of things.
"My mother had this great saying about the appearance of things," said her son, Ari Ackerman, 42, the entrepreneur behind Bunk1.com, an online service that enables parents to connect to children away at summer camp.
The giant, too, makes you wonder how anyone like Goya — who, as the art critic John Berger once wrote, knew the appearances of things "in the very movement of his fingers and wrist" — could have painted such a clumsy figure.
As was noted earlier, the surviving fragments of the Indalmoi include a line that is plausibly taken to point to the importance, for the Pyrrhonist, of the appearances of things as a basis for decision and action.
Thus, for Mendelssohn, mathematical truths need not suppose more than the appearances of things as long as a distinction is maintained between constant and inconstant appearances or, equivalently, between appearances that have their basis in the intrinsic, essential constitution of our senses and those that do not (e.g., those due to sickness or a faulty perspective).
One of the main points made in the book was to contrast Greco-Roman statuary expressing the ideal of the beautiful form as it exists in reality even if it is transfigured by art and African sculpture as a manifestation of the life force beneath the appearances of things.
But matter is only an appearance; whatever supersensible thing it is that gives rise to the appearance of matter, that thing may well be the same as whatever supersensible thing it is that gives rise to the experience of an experiencing self (KRV A 358f/B 428f).
