Sentence examples for notionally powerful from inspiring English sources

It's possible to split Wiley's corpus fairly neatly in two — the much larger collection of portraits exalting everyday, all-but-anonymous people, and those portraying a rich, famous, and notionally powerful black élite: Michael Jackson, LL Cool J, the Notorious B.I.G., and now Obama — and to wonder which subset is, at bottom, more of a rueful joke.

The notionally civilian regime now in power seems indistinguishable from the one in uniform it supplanted.

Notionally those of high rank had vast authoritarian powers.

Arms wide and tense, back rigid, he seemed to be battling unseen forces even during the notionally calm Dawn interlude, and his measured, careful approach made heavy weather of the music, even if the orchestra was thrillingly powerful in the Storm interlude and the climax to Moonlight.

I was sort of notionally a fan.

Notionally, the Qassam brigades answer to him.

It will only be notionally ajar.

Notionally, lineages are exclusive in their membership.

"That's Peabody, notionally among the most economic.

Now his subject is notionally wider and more austere: ideology.

The new seat of Burt is considered notionally Liberal.