Sentence examples for instead ostensibly from inspiring English sources

They did not send e-mails, but saved messages to the draft folder instead, ostensibly to avoid a digital trail.

Because race divides us, a developing consensus seems to hold that we should move forward on what instead ostensibly unites us: a common interest in addressing surging economic inequality.

To deny this and seek instead to assert ostensibly definitive technical answers is undermining equally of science and democracy.

Their findings led to several changes, including a switch to saline solution as the near-drowning agent instead of water, ostensibly to protect the health of detainees who ingest large volumes of liquid but also, the group says, to allow repeated use of waterboarding on the same subject.

While Newt Gingrich's romantic history makes the Hamptons of "Revenge" look like the Sunnybrook Farm of Rebecca, he implores us to focus instead on his ostensibly devout Catholicism today and his marriage to Callista, who stands so snugly and immovably at his side that their connection seems less intimate than umbilical.

Yet most leading theories of capacity have very little to say about value, preferring instead to stick to ostensibly more tangible and 'objective' matters of fact (Grisso & Appelbaum 1998).

Instead, a lawsuit is filed ostensibly on behalf of Bradley Smith — the chief executive of Rescue One Financial — against one Deborah Garcia, who supposedly lives in Rhode Island.

Instead of producing arm's-length, ostensibly objective journalism, Amy becomes a personal essayist, a memoirist.

Sometimes, he seemed to watch the player with the ball instead of the man he was ostensibly guarding.

So many of these conduits that ostensibly bring people together instead take them, strand by egotistical strand, away from the essence of things.

Instead, a friend of mine came over — ostensibly to say goodbye — and that night I got high again.