Sentence examples for Very patently from inspiring English sources

Sitting opposite, the Tory leader Arthur Balfour complained that the fate of the church was "in the hands of two Jews who are entirely sober and one Christian who is very patently drunk".

Tag yourself I am encouragingly saying, "you're doing great, you're doing great" at someone who is very patently not doing great.

It is patently a very stable business compared to many.

Like other great philosopher-psychologists of the past, Descartes seems to have regarded our acquisition of concepts and knowledge ('ideas') as the main psychological mystery, taking language acquisition to be a relatively trivial matter in comparison; as he puts it, albeit ironically, "it patently requires very little reason to be able to speak".

(Indeed, among the highest incidents of concussion occur in the decidedly female-coded sport of competitive cheerleading. It is also very high in the patently non-violent world of diving, particularly from the ten meter platform).

It's a patently ridiculous and very British idea, and laughable in the face of our propensity to down a stiff gin or three in the face of adversity.

This sounds like a very damning thing, but it is patently ridiculous.

"I'm built in a very ethnic, Portuguese way," she insists, which is patently untrue.

But it is patently clear that he took himself very seriously as an artist, that he believed passionately in the art of the great masters of the past and wanted to emulate and repeat them for his own generation.

Instead he became an improbable sapper in 560 Field Company, which he later described as "a very working-class unit trying to build some patently inadequate defences against invasion on the coasts of East Anglia".

Instead, argue the family's lawyers: "The commanders' order was, prima facie, patently illegal and negligent at the very least, and [the bulldozer driver] YP should not have obeyed it".