Sentence examples for not patently from inspiring English sources

The current tax system is far from perfect, from an economist's point of view, but it is not patently unfair.

Whether this sort of thing is good for consumers, or will encourage more Americans to invent things, is not patently obvious.

Any open-minded student given an honest presentation of intelligent design will have to conclude that it is ridiculous (if not patently dishonest) and that it belongs on the shelf of silly ideas like flat earthism.

It is arguable, but not patently unfair, to say that this America spreads a false universalism -- one that unites the globe in the simplemindedness of commercial entertainment, and all its related products.

The more he became convinced that certain political rights were accordingly counterproductive, the more readily he forsook them and the less democratic, if not patently libertarian, he became.

More specifically, Beall & Restall's version of pluralism is not patently implausible, but it does rest on a linguistic picture with two distinctive features: first, that the meaning of 'case' is genuinely unsettled, and second, that given that it is unsettled, the discovery of more than one reasonable precisification of it should make us pluralists.

Not sure what Laura's trying to find that isn't patently obvious in the numbers.

So why aren't patently religious-themed movies blockbusters?

As long as keeping mum wasn't patently illegal, doing so was apparently worth the risk.

Is this because women don't write SF? Patently not.

That, he said, would be "laughable if not so patently preposterous".