Sentence examples for less ostensibly from inspiring English sources

In the days before the announcement, opinion seemed to harden around Gadd as favourite for the award – although his show is less ostensibly commercial than most former winners.

The story may hint at a counterlife — an altogether more prosaic, less pristine, less ostensibly perfect and, for that matter, respectable way of life, one that comes with its grimy and laborious trouble built in, its ugly places and stories present at hand — but Park doesn't offer a vision of it.

Not One Less is ostensibly about China's problem with the drop-out rate in country schools.

(In 2014, Obama replaced Secure Communities with a similar but ostensibly less sweeping program).

The by-products of thousands of smaller, ostensibly less wasteful reactors would soon add up.

Jacobs, who grew up a wrestling fan, said he was excited about the appearance although his tense post-game interaction with Jets Coach Rex Ryan in December was ostensibly less contrived.

In the same way that the songs from "Sky Blue Sky" sounded more barbed in concert, material from the ostensibly less conventional albums "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" and "A Ghost Is Born" came across as radiant and forthright.

And, as delivery orders replace profitable takeout or sit-down sales with less profitable ones — ostensibly giving restaurants business but effectively taking it away — the "incremental" argument no longer holds.

But, these days, that conviction runs into versions of a less soaring, if ostensibly practical, assertion, along the lines that "we already have a domestic work force that has the same skills," as one advocate for reduced immigration put it in the Times yesterday.

But officials from other United Nations agencies with experience in Syria outlined in recent interviews the sometimes insuperable obstacles they faced in carrying out the ostensibly less controversial task of delivering food, medical supplies and other relief services to needy Syrians across the country.

The defenders of affirmative action tried more complicated replies, but their attempts to justify affirmative action as reparation came to an end when the Supreme Court offered a far easier and ostensibly less divisive way to justify affirmative action.