All 20 Uses of
apparent
in
The Trial
- If the maid went by and closed the door of the apparently empty room he would get up after a while and open it again.
Chpt 4 *apparently = obviously; or seemingly (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- It is not at all necessary for Dr. Huld to go to the court, wait in the ante-rooms for the examining judges to turn up, if they turn up, and try to achieve something which, according to the judges' mood is usually more apparent than real and most often not even that.†
Chpt 7
- On the other hand, there are also dark moments, such as everyone has, when you think you've achieved nothing at all, when it seems that the only trials to come to a good end are those that were determined to have a good end from the start and would do so without any help, while all the others are lost despite all the running to and fro, all the effort, all the little, apparent successes that gave such joy.†
Chpt 7
- There are three possibilities; absolute acquittal, apparent acquittal and deferment.†
Chpt 7
- Apparent acquittal and deferment.†
Chpt 7
- "Apparent acquittal and deferment," said the painter.†
Chpt 7
- You can get either of them if I help you, but it'll take some effort of course, the difference between them is that apparent acquittal needs concentrated effort for a while and that deferment takes much less effort but it has to be sustained.†
Chpt 7
- Now then, apparent acquittal.†
Chpt 7
- "That's right," said the painter, "but only apparently free or, to put it a better way, temporarily free, as the most junior judges, the ones I know, they don't have the right to give the final acquittal.†
Chpt 7
- And as I'm in such good contact with the court I can also tell you how the difference between absolute and apparent acquittal is described, just in a superficial way, in the directives to the court offices.†
Chpt 7
- With an apparent acquittal it's different.†
Chpt 7
- I've been talking here as if there's a long delay between apparent acquittal and re-arrest, that is quite possible and I do know of cases like that, but it's just as likely that the defendant goes home after he's been acquitted and finds somebody there waiting to re-arrest him.†
Chpt 7
- "The trial will always start over again," said the painter, "but there is, once again as before, the possibility of getting an apparent acquittal.†
Chpt 7
- That's what is meant by the term apparent acquittal."†
Chpt 7
- "You clearly don't think an apparent acquittal offers much advantage," said the painter, "perhaps deferment would suit you better.†
Chpt 7
- I repeat, this doesn't require so much effort as getting an apparent acquittal, but it probably requires a lot more attention.†
Chpt 7
- Compared with an apparent acquittal, deferment has the advantage that the defendant's future is less uncertain, he's safe from the shock of being suddenly re-arrested and doesn't need to fear the exertions and stress involved in getting an apparent acquittal just when everything else in his life would make it most difficult.†
Chpt 7
- Compared with an apparent acquittal, deferment has the advantage that the defendant's future is less uncertain, he's safe from the shock of being suddenly re-arrested and doesn't need to fear the exertions and stress involved in getting an apparent acquittal just when everything else in his life would make it most difficult.†
Chpt 7
- I don't mean by this that the defendant is never free, he's never free in the proper sense of the word with an apparent acquittal either.†
Chpt 7
- You see, I have the impression that you have not only misjudged the legal assistance I have given you but also that that misjudgement has led you to behave in this way, you seem, although you are the accused, to have been treated too well or, to put it a better way, handled with neglect, with apparent neglect.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so