Sentence examples for is ostensibly engaged from inspiring English sources

A white person who sells a house to an African-American because the latter makes the best offer is ostensibly engaged in the same behavior as a white person who sells a house to an African-American because he is in a panic and just wants to unload his property at any price.

As usual, his characters speak in monologues even when they are ostensibly engaged in dialogue.

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

The book is ostensibly about Indian subjects — dance, caste, Parsis, democracy — but it inexorably engages many of the issues that vex Mr. Jahanbegloo's homeland, including tradition, pluralism, the West and freedom.

The commission is ostensibly independent.

In Pale Fire, Charles Kinbote is ostensibly an academic ostensibly commentating on what is ostensibly his best friend's poem.

(Dale is ostensibly working on a biography of Bierce).

This provision, too, is ostensibly aimed at cutting corruption.

Quora is ostensibly a Q&A site.

The entire thread is ostensibly real.

The former is ostensibly a moral fact about X.