Let's face it, a novel's cover is its outward presentation and creates the initial impression for the potential reader.
Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher gives a performance of uncanny exactitude and command that overleaps the bounds of mimicry: despite a face encrusted with prosthetics and make-up, Streep somehow conveys through outward presentation (clothes, hair, voice) the inward drive of her personality.
In addition to what one does and says, one can be considered warm, cold, formal, aloof, friendly, intimidating, gentle, and so forth, largely due to aesthetic factors such as tone of voice, way of speaking, facial expression, bodily gesture and posture, and outward presentation such as clothing, hair style, ornamentation, and the like.
They grew beards, wore their hair long, carried an air of apathy conspicuously, and did not tend as meticulously to their outward presentation.
The presentation had the outward trappings of a dance event, with five leotard-clad performers moving through a spare, starkly lighted set strewed with electrical cords, lamps, flat platforms of varying sizes, and other small implements.
Also, one of the images contained inward and the other one outward motion (presentation of these features was counterbalanced).
Close acquaintance with the subject guided the accurate presentation not only of the outward image but also of the sensation within, transforming the subjective and personal to the mystical and universal.
The outward signs aren't all working.
Created the outward appearance of calm".
But the outward symptoms are curious.
Delays only count on the outward journey.
