Sentences with phrase «from superficial appearances»

Centipedes and millipedes belong to the same subphylum (Myriapoda) but, aside from superficial appearances, they couldn't be more different.

Neuhaus, like many who are appalled with the decision to withdraw nutrition and hydration from Nancy, argues more from superficial appearances than from moral principles.

In this way persona evolved in signification from simple and static mask to complex and living character, moving from the exterior to the interior, from the superficial appearance to the substantial reality.

Not exact matches

If we had had no experience of going deeper we would not be able now to recognize the shallow as shallow, the superficial as superficial, or appearances as distinct from reality.

But despite Beatriz's big innocent eyes and meek, self - effacing appearance, she increasingly interjects herself into the evening's proceedings, interrupting their superficial banter about jet - setting vacations and making lots of money with her own reflections («I could feel the pain of the octopus,» she says, relating a story from her youth.)

Dog breeds are usually grouped — often arbitrarily or erroneously — into from five to ten categories based on function, superficial appearance, or geographical origin, depending on the registry organization.

All of these strategies of concealing and revealing information are informed by the basic epistemological problem of the search for truth: how do we distinguish fact from fiction or illusion, superficial appearances from essential being?