If we have a large range of examples, if our observation is constantly directed to seeking the correlation of cause and effect in people's actions, their actions
appear to us more under compulsion and less free the more correctly we connect the effects with the causes.
War and Peace
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and religious.
Prince
He with his eyes interrogated his mother more than twenty times: but she, given up to the pleasure of conversing with her sister-in-law, and likewise constrained by the glance of Mazarin, did not
appear to comprehend any of the supplications conveyed by the looks of her son.
Ten Years Later
Neither did he appear to have pursued any course of reading which might fit him for a degree in science or any other recognized portal which would give him an entrance into the learned world.
"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise.
So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
The theories which I have expressed there, and which appear to you to be so chimerical are really extremely practical -- so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
A Study In Scarlet
It began to
appear to her mind as a dreary place of endless grinding.
Maggie A Girl of the Streets
On the whole they appear to me to stand some few degrees higher in the scale of civilization than the Fuegians.
The only light I can throw upon this enigma, is by remarking that banks of the most irregular forms appear to be now forming in some seas, as in parts of the West Indies and in the Red Sea, and that their sides are exceedingly steep.
The Voyage of the Beagle
He expected that he had only to
appear to be acknowledged.
The Man in the Iron Mask
This, then, as the foundation, must be preserved: in other particulars carefully do and affect to seem like a king; first,
appear to pay a great attention [1314b] to what belongs to the public; nor make such profuse presents as will offend the people; while they are to supply the money out of the hard labour of their own hands, and see it given in profusion to mistresses, foreigners, and fiddlers; keeping an exact account both of what you receive and pay; which is a practice some tyrants do actually follow, by which means they seem rather fathers of families than tyrants: nor need you ever fear the want of money while you have the supreme power of the state in your own hands.
A Treatise on Government
Two years of continuous intentional efforts to embed inquiry and dialogue into their routines of daily engagement
appear to stimulate an ability to balance the need for flow of daily routine with the intentional punctuating acts of observation, collection, meaning making, and sharing.
A constructivist pathway to teacher leadership
From where I sit, about 25% of today's buyers
appear to be foreign with money from global sources.
From where I sit: instincts of a mortgage broker