How much deeper would they go than mere external appearances?

None of them looked their best at harvest time when little effort could be wasted on mere appearance.

Of course, men do make too much fuss over mere appearance.

Some legislators, however, say that the price for protecting against mere appearances is too high.

She wasn't the sort to judge persons by mere appearance, or lack of it.

That of us which you see is mere appearance, for your sake.

The mere appearance of such a problem is enough to trigger an investigation.

But the problem with photography has always been its adherence to the surface of things, to mere appearances.

"You have no right to judge others by mere appearances," he said.

We cannot know anything about the relations of things in themselves or of mere appearances.