Sentence examples for on the surface only from inspiring English sources

The bluster on the surface only pointed to the needfulness inside.

Hoggart lived long enough to document apparently huge changes in society, all the while noting that many of those changes were on the surface only.

"Throughout most of the season they stay deep during the day and feed on the surface only early in the morning or between sunset and dark.

But these gestures seem to exist entirely on the surface, only rarely connecting convincingly with the primal fears and anxieties that the play means to portray.

Charles's brother Wilfred was in love with a fourteen-year-old named Alice Donkin — and that romance, on the surface only a little more plausible than Charles's, ended happily.

Conversely, GaAs is oxidised at OCP, and AsH bonds appear on the surface only in the presence of a cathodic current sufficient to compete with surface oxidation by oxygen dissolved in the electrolyte.

Bale's knowledge does not come to the surface only on quiz nights.

On the surface (but only on the surface) it involves a private transaction between an individual and a company.

Infrared analyses of the images found the hallmarks of hydrated salts on the surface, but only when the streaks were present.

As an approximation, we assumed that the veins were on the surface but were only seen by light entering the grape from the 'far side'.

However, during the incubation of sclerotia in NB media the bacteria propagate already, so the counting of the CFU on agar media reflect not the number of bacteria on the sclerotia surface only the diversity.