All 13 Uses of
apparent
in
Hiroshima
- In the street, the first thing he saw was a squad of soldiers who had been burrowing into the hillside opposite, making one of the thousands of dugouts in which the Japanese apparently intended to resist invasion, hill by hill, life for life; the soldiers were coming out of the hole, where they should have been safe, and blood was running from their heads, chests, and backs.†
Chpt 1
- Dr Fujii had occasionally had anxious moments when the Ota and its mouth branches rose to flood, but the piling was apparently firm enough and the house had always held.†
Chpt 1
- Toshio, the boy, apparently had some freedom to move, because she could feel him undermining the pile of wood and tiles as she worked from above.†
Chpt 2
- It was so black under the books and debris that the borderline between awareness and unconsciousness was fine; she apparently crossed it Several times, for the pain seemed to come and go.†
Chpt 2
- This, apparently, was just what Mrs Murata wanted.†
Chpt 3
- Father Kleinsorge's apparently negligible but unhealed cuts
Chpt 4 *apparently = seemingly (appearing to be, but perhaps not really being)
- …massig durchblutet und kein Oedema', noting that she was a medium— sized female patient in good general health; that she had a compound fracture of the left tibia, with swelling of the left lower leg; that her skin and visible mucous membranes were heavily spotted with petechiae, which are haemorrhages about the size of grains of rice, or even as big as soya beans; and, in addition, that her head, eyes, throat, lungs, and heart were apparently normal; and that she had a fever.†
Chpt 4
- The apparently uninjured people who had died so mysteriously in the first few hours or days had succumbed in this first stage.†
Chpt 4
- For more than a decade after the bombings, the hibakusha lived in an economic limbo, apparently because the Japanese government did not want to find itself saddled with anything like moral responsibility for heinous acts of the victorious United States.†
Chpt 5
- Two years earlier, a Quaker professor of dendrology from the University of Washington named Floyd W. Schmoe, driven, apparently, by deep urges for expiation and reconciliation, had come to Hiroshima, assembled a team of carpenters, and, with his own hands and theirs, begun building a series of Japanese-style houses for victims of the bomb; in all, his team eventually built twenty-one.†
Chpt 5
- Among his many other complaints, he had syphilis, which he had apparently caught from transfusions in one of his hospital stays; it was cured eventually.†
Chpt 5
- Swimming up toward consciousness, he apparently thought he was being rescued, somehow, after the atomic bombing.†
Chpt 5
- Unable to read Japanese labels, they had punctured many cans and kicked them over, apparently to see what was in them.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so