German: den Schein für die Sache nehmenEnglish translation: take appearances for reality 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | den Schein für die Sache nehmen | | English translation: | take appearances for reality | | Entered by: | Kim Metzger |
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Art/Literary - Anthropology | | German term or phrase: den Schein für die Sache nehmen | | Wenn jemand sich von Äußerlichkeiten täuschen lässt und statt des wahren Gehalts einer Sache eben nur deren Blendwerk sieht. |
| | | take appearances for reality | Explanation:
Called one of the "richest, most imageful and full blown modern comedies," The Playboy of the Western World is a celebration of the comic and the tender, the earthy and the grand. When young Christy Mahon, on the way to finding his true love - and his manhood - bashes his bully of a father, he becomes the idol of a small Irish village, thus setting off the famed playwright's sardonic attack on the Irish tendency to take appearances for reality.
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
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| take appearances for reality
Explanation:
Called one of the "richest, most imageful and full blown modern comedies," The Playboy of the Western World is a celebration of the comic and the tender, the earthy and the grand. When young Christy Mahon, on the way to finding his true love - and his manhood - bashes his bully of a father, he becomes the idol of a small Irish village, thus setting off the famed playwright's sardonic attack on the Irish tendency to take appearances for reality.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030727111949/http://www.steppen...
| Kim Metzger
Mexico
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 12
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| Note from asker to answerer| Graded automatically based on peer agreement. |
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