

Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon, 1986īoth sides have manifested a stubborn unwillingness to compromise. John Kenneth Galbraith, A Tenured Professor, 1990 And if one is a pantheist … one might say that all nature is divinity and manifests itself in myriad forms and delightful complexities. 1992 He asked what they had been doing in Dallas, and they told him that they were looking at the Sunbelt boom as manifested in the great Texas banks, thrifts and real estate operations. Jack McCallum, Sports Illustrated, 27 Apr. Verb Malone has invited Barkley to spend a week … to relax, talk some basketball, eat some hot Louisiana food and kick around the subject of frustration, something they both feel but manifest in different ways. There was manifest confusion in the streets. His love for literature is manifest in his large library. Their sadness was manifest in their faces. This physical deterioration was manifest likewise in his face.

In fact, Daylight was developing a definite paunch. 1982 His muscles were getting flabby, and his tailor called attention to his increasing waistband. John Borrell, Wall Street Journal, 23 Aug. Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam, 1998 Washington has long been uneasy about its relationship with Somalia, partly because of the manifest shakiness of the Siad Barre administration but also because of Somalia's continuing claims on the Ogaden. Its imperium is manifest, irrefragable-as in fact it has been since antiquity. Sarna, American Judaism, 2004 Economics, the great model among us now, indulges and deprives, builds and abandons, threatens and promises.

It provided a vocabulary, an explanation, and a new set of boundaries for the restructured American religion that had by then been developing for half a century. Manifested musical ability at an early age evidence suggests serving as proof of the actuality or existence of something.Ī commitment evidenced by years of loyal service evince implies a showing by outward marks or signs.Įvinced not the slightest fear demonstrate implies showing by action or by display of feeling.ĭemonstrated their approval by loud applauseĪdjective The argument, for all of its manifest inadequacies … captured the national imagination and shaped subsequent religious discourse. show is the general term but sometimes implies that what is revealed must be gained by inference from acts, looks, or words.Ĭareful not to show his true feelings manifest implies a plainer, more immediate revelation. Show, manifest, evidence, evince, demonstrate mean to reveal outwardly or make apparent. Her feelings about him are plain clear implies an absence of anything that confuses the mind or obscures the pattern. The obvious solution apparent is very close to evident except that it may imply more conscious exercise of inference.įor no apparent reason plain suggests lack of intricacy, complexity, or elaboration. Patent defects distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required.Ī distinct refusal obvious implies such ease in discovering that it often suggests conspicuousness or little need for perspicacity in the observer. Manifest hostility patent applies to a cause, effect, or significant feature that is clear and unmistakable once attention has been directed to it. evident implies presence of visible signs that lead one to a definite conclusion.Īn evident fondness for sweets manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required. Evident, manifest, patent, distinct, obvious, apparent, plain, clear mean readily perceived or apprehended.
