Sentence examples for Quite patently from inspiring English sources
Liz Hurley doesn't play Queen Elizabeth II, because that would quite patently be weird.
But I was pleased, because the station was quite patently crap compared to its heyday".
"It's not just the playfulness of the language – he's also quite patently satirical in the way Wodehouse was," he said.
Well, if the theories I've heard are correct, they've been abducted, sold into slavery on the planet Gaviscon-5 and forced to perform debauched acts on their new overlords while wearing glittery underpants quite patently too small for them.
For his production of Anna Jordan's Yen he introduced an electric radiator that barked like a dog; here he establishes a snapping reptile that is quite patently a piano.
As you'd expect, South Africa is excited, as London quite patently won't be come the 2012 Olympics, with president Jacob Zuma thanking his fellow countryfolk for the welcome they've extended their guests so far, and asking them "to show warmness for the whole duration of the tournament".
I think part of the reason is that he's patently disingenuous and, quite frankly, a social misfit.
For example, in problem-solving tasks, people are often sensitive to crucial clues of which they are quite unaware, and they often provide patently confabulated accounts of the problem-solving methods they actually employ.
Of course, criticising Wolf Gang's search for their own sound would be churlish, the band having only released their debut album on the same day as tonight's show, but there is a certain frustration in hearing a patently talented act not quite take the leap.
The salaries and bonuses awarded to these managers make it impossible to feel sorry for them, but even when the criticisms are patently justified there is something not quite civilised about the vehemence of the abuse.
This is patently unrealistic: once lineages split, they should evolve quite independently, and may explain the failure of the process at estimating the root placement for some genes.
