Sentence examples for not ostensibly from inspiring English sources

It is not — at least, not ostensibly.

Now this dreary ethos is creeping into places that are not, ostensibly, owned or controlled by corporations.

While aid workers said the regional government's support is not ostensibly politicized, refugees in Kurdistan praised Mr. Barzani as a role model.

Wordy, dense and super-smart, it was not ostensibly mainstream but became so popular that it was unable to maintain cult status for long and television repeats continued throughout the Nineties.

It also included Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" ("Songs on the Death of Children"), which, though not ostensibly spiritual and certainly not Holocaust related, took on added meaning from the context: the more so, given the epic cast of the baritone Thomas Hampson's superb performance.

They range from Peter Guralnick's Lost Highway to Vladimir Jankélévitch's Music and the Ineffable, but to be honest a lot of the writing about sound that has made me think in a different way has been either very obscure – something like Robert Hans van Gulik's The Lore of the Chinese Lute, for instance – or not ostensibly about listening or music at all.

They weren't ostensibly about the great poetic subjects: mortality, good versus evil and beauty and truth and the like.

One of the scariest things I hear, though, isn't ostensibly as scary as autonomous death machines.

The Eton I attended didn't ostensibly resemble Orwell's St Cyprian's, however, any more than it resembled Dickens's Dotheboys Hall.

He also jumps, rolls, jerks, somersaults, back flips and throws himself repeatedly to the ground in movement that isn't ostensibly dance, but nonetheless coheres into a distinct vocabulary occasionally hinting at break dance and martial arts.

Batteries and plug-in outlets aren't ostensibly "green," whereas embedded solar panels can cloud or obscure segments of the glass.