Sentence examples for all ostensibly from inspiring English sources

A cynic could argue that all ostensibly happy marriages are really power struggles in disguise.

His narrators are all ostensibly humble, courteous, and cheerful; the puzzle lies in deciding where they are speaking in earnest and where ironically.

Painters, certainly, played up the story's sensual elements, depicting naked virgins with suggestive knives pointing at, or embedded in, their breasts -- all ostensibly in the name of chastity.

While the stories are all ostensibly about men, the book's true subject is the woman common to them all: the beautiful bohemian and intellectual Margaret Sargeant.

The Russian academicians we spoke to, all ostensibly devoted to peace and solidarity, were horrified that they might be asked to actually do something practical.

This is all ostensibly true, historically accurate within the license granted any playwright, and a jaw-dropping scenario even if you were already aware of it.

It earns its place among all the ostensibly more exotic fare mentioned above, simply because I couldn't bear not to mention it.

Presumably, the playwright is crying out against the hollow values of a youth-crazed culture and charting its damaging effects on a fragile 16-year-old -- and on all the ostensibly well-meaning grown-ups who notice her in all the wrong ways.

Which of us would have predicted, 60 years ago, that Queen Elizabeth would still be presiding over it all – an ostensibly anachronistic embodiment of past glories rather than of any identifiable future ones?

(Mayweather is even an executive producer of "All Access," an ostensibly documentary series on Showtime, which precedes his fights).

It is important to remember that all this is ostensibly designed to secure the spectacle of 17,000 athletes competing for 17 days.