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to appearances
noun
The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye.
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Why this sudden sensitivity to appearances?
Terminating judgments must refer to appearances, while nonterminating judgments may refer to other objects or values.
He guided the school to appearances in the Final Four in 2005 and 2012.
Contrary to appearances, the law's main tenets are unlikely to be abandoned completely.
"They kept saying that, contrary to appearances, we weren't actually triplets.
Fanatically dedicated to appearances, they are fooling themselves, perhaps, as much as others.
Contrary to appearances, he said, the Parkers' marriage was not a happy one.
Contrary to appearances, this wasn't really a serious effort to shut down the government.
But let's not think about swing flaws; let's go back to appearances.
Denim is "the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances," George Will huffed last year.
He avoided committing himself to any views about what the world was really like and acted only according to appearances.
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