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apparent
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- Not deliberately to irritate him but because the irritation seems symptomatic of something deeper, something under the surface that isn't immediately apparent.†
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- But many others are also following their natural feelings and not trying to imitate anyone and the natural feelings of very many people are similar on this matter; so that when you look at them collectively, as journalists do, you get the illusion of a mass movement, an antitechnological mass movement, an entire political antitechnological left emerging, looming up from apparently nowhere, saying, "Stop the technology.†
Part 1apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- In its place grew that old feeling I've talked about before, a feeling that there's something bigger involved than is apparent on the surface.†
Part 1
- Now it's become apparent that this dimension isn't a fad that's going to go away next year or the year after.†
Part 1
- For reasons that will become apparent I'd prefer that he remain forgotten, but there's no choice other than to reopen his case.†
Part 1
- A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.†
Part 2apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- He studied scientific truths, then became upset even more by the apparent cause of their temporal condition.†
Part 2
- Phaedrus wandered through this high country, aimlessly at first, following every path, every trail where someone had been before, seeing occasionally with small hindsights that he was apparently making some progress, but seeing nothing ahead of him that told him which way to go.†
Part 2apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- Phaedrus said no. Then one student, apparently a partisan of the governor, said angrily that the legislature would prevent the school from losing its accreditation.†
Part 2
- But if you go back to original sources, the literature of any particular era, you find that these causes were never apparent at the time they were supposed to be operating.†
Part 2
- There were some who apparently wrote with calculating premeditation because that's the way their product looked.†
Part 2apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- At first he thought it was laziness but later it became apparent that it wasn't.†
Part 3
- This is apparently a seldom-entered canyon this far up.†
Part 3apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- When separated out like this for independent examination it became apparent that "just" in this case really didn't mean a damn thing.†
Part 3
- But what we ought to aim at is less the ascertainment of resemblances and differences than the recognition of likenesses hidden under apparent divergences.†
Part 3
- Other materials, like steel, have tremendous elasticity, more than rubber, but in a range in which, unless you're working with large mechanical forces, the elasticity isn't apparent.†
Part 3
- Some developer's scheme apparently.†
Part 3apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- It was apparent that the term "Quality" was not within any one discipline unless that discipline was philosophy.†
Part 4
- And he knew from his experience with philosophy that further study there was unlikely to uncover anything concerning an apparently mystic term in English composition.†
Part 4apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- I know that the acting chairman admitted him during the Chairman's absence on the basis of his teaching experience and apparent ability to converse intelligently.†
Part 4
- Thus they had apparently been traveling in the same direction as Phaedrus but had somehow ended with Aristotle and stopped there.†
Part 4apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- Apparently to find room in the sun for a reality of Quality he would have to fight and overcome the head of his own committee, whose Aristotelian outlook made it impossible even to get started and whose temperament appeared to be extremely intolerant of opposing ideas.†
Part 4
- In class, the Professor of Philosophy, noting Phaedrus' apparent good behavior and diligence, has decided he may not be such a bad student after all.†
Part 4
- The road leads out to the ocean again where it climbs to a high point that apparently juts out into the ocean but now is surrounded by banks of fog.†
Part 4apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
Definitions:
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(1)
(apparent) clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)