All 10 Uses of
apparent
in
Babbitt
- As usual it apparently did not.†
Chpt 6 *
- …year," Dr. Drew chanted, "when, though stormy the sky and laborious the path to the drudging wayfarer, yet the hovering and bodiless spirit swoops back o'er all the labors and desires of the past twelve months, oh, then it seems to me there sounds behind all our apparent failures the golden chorus of greeting from those passed happily on; and lo! on the dim horizon we see behind dolorous clouds the mighty mass of mountains—mountains of melody, mountains of mirth, mountains of might!"†
Chpt 16
- Like many of the cocksure young men who forage about cities in apparent contentment and who express their cynicism in supercilious slang, Escott was shy and lonely.†
Chpt 17
- Ted was young only in his assumption of oldness, and the only realms, apparently, in which Babbitt had a larger and more grown-up knowledge than Ted's were the details of real estate and the phrases of politics.†
Chpt 19
- He struggled not to look at the outline of her young bosom and her shoulders, the more apparent under a film of pink chiffon.†
Chpt 24
- More than mountains or the shore-devouring sea, a city retains its character, imperturbable, cynical, holding behind apparent changes its essential purpose.†
Chpt 26
- He was apparently expected to dance, to be boyish and gay with Carrie, and he did his unforgiving best.†
Chpt 29
- Tanis apparently enjoyed the companionship of the dancing darlings; she bridled to their bland flirtation and casually kissed them at the end of each dance.†
Chpt 29
- Apparently they thought very comfortably of themselves.†
Chpt 29
- He was apparently expected to "jolly her along," but when she sang out, "Hey, leggo, quit crushing me cootie-garage," he did not quite know how to go on.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so