Sentence examples for he was ostensibly from inspiring English sources

Brown drew on the mystique of male chastity even as he was ostensibly overthrowing it.

Even though he was ostensibly just in charge of the storage facility, he offered to help.

But in creating Stephen, Tarantino necessarily trafficked in the stereotypes he was ostensibly responding to.

But before Good King Henry was a salad green, he was, ostensibly, something nobler: European royalty.

He was ostensibly a left-footed player but you would never know it.

He was ostensibly living in retirement, surrounded by a small group of old friends.

And he's ostensibly right.

In the essay quoted above, he is ostensibly railing against the Articles of Confederation.

He is, ostensibly, at the peak of his power and not only because of the diplomatic coup that, regardless of its outcome, the summit represents.

True to life - and to genre conventions - Connolly begins to behave more and more like the gangsters he is ostensibly trying to bring down.

When her father's brother visits (he's ostensibly engaged to her aunt), a betrayal ensues that reverberates across many years and two continents.