All 10 Uses of
apparent
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- Apparently he had a car parked somewhere, because nobody had seen him since, either.†
Chpt 1 *apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- He'd never been in jail before, he said, and he apparently believed himself set apart by nature from the others—as if by that perhaps unjust and unwarranted, meaningless brand, like the mark of Cain—so that his punishment was more cruel than theirs, downright absurd, in fact.†
Chpt 2
- The workload there was heavy and also vital, and the man who had done the job before him had been even less suited for the work, apparently, than Will.†
Chpt 8
- The house had apparently been empty for years.†
Chpt 10
- Armed truce—that is, democracy—becomes the only apparent hope—a false hope.†
Chpt 11
- He had a wide red hat embroidered in what might once have been white—it had gone through last night's rain, apparently—and dark glasses.†
Chpt 12apparently = obviously or clearly; or seemingly so (appearing clear or obvious--though not necessarily so)
- She looked at him for a long time, her mind apparently still cobwebbed with dreams.†
Chpt 13
- Whatever the question was that he was asking himself, he apparently found the answer.†
Chpt 17
- They stepped down from the entryway to the large white livingroom where apparently no one had spent more than half an hour in twenty years.†
Chpt 19
- For no apparent reason, the boy dropped from the swing and came over to take the man's hand.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
clear or obvious; or appearing as such but not necessarily so