You just have to look different ... then seemingly anything can be said and done to you as your outer appearance reduces you to the status of a non-human being.

Serena Scott Thomas - Kelly Bridges (seasons 1 & 2; guest season 3)

There is something refreshingly ironic about people lying on the beach contracting skin cancer in an attempt to acquire a purely illusory appearance of good health, while germ-laden medical waste washes up on the sand all around them. (entitled Surf's Down Forever, p. 207)

Now that everything is, or may be, "digital" and could contemplate its membership in an e-category, the final product should be always studied, not only in its appearance, but in its process, structure, in its modes of functioning and of presentation / fruition and also in an historical perspective.

Your birthmark looks like shit!

All that glisters is not gold.

He looked as bright as a new shilling in his immaculate white robes.

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

There is nothing difficult about becoming a sage, and nothing false about transcending the world of appearances.

Don't you know that a good and excellent person does nothing for the sake of appearances, but only for the sake of having acted right?

Womanly appearance requires neither a pretty nor a perfect face or form.

Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.