All 3 Uses of
external
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Such a sight as the old Negro walls in these streets had a peculiar grandness, if dread too, where this external evidence was of a big humanity which you now couldn't see.†
Chpt 10external = outside
- External life being so mighty, the instruments so huge and terrible, the performances so great, the thoughts so great and threatening, you produce a someone who can exist before it.†
Chpt 19
- It is all external and the same.†
Chpt 22 *
Definition:
outside
in various senses, including:
- coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing -- as in "external trade"
- forming or relating to an outside boundary -- as in "external walls"
- on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete -- as in "external appearances"