exteriorities

When nothing which happens, happens except under God's direct responsibility, when nothing is said which is not one of your 'lines' in the drama which is being played, not so much by as through you, there can be no exteriorities, nothing can be trivial, in a record of life so conceived.

Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

She remembered that Owen had said that such exquisite exteriorities were only possible in a pagan century, when man is content to look no farther than this strip of existence for the reason of his existence and his birthright.

Evelyn Innes 1892

a stern aloofness from the small and common exteriorities of life.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

"concatenation of exteriorities" little favorable to literary composition of any sort; but considered as accompaniments or inspiration of that delightfully comical beginning of "The Antiquary," they are all but incredible.

Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851