Sentence examples similar to ostensible clarity from inspiring English sources

But the risk is that it will be something of a hybrid: a throwback to the 19th century in its presence and ostensible function, a representative of the 20th in its requirements for clarity and demotic variability, and a harbinger of the 21st in that it will be so malleable that it will hardly matter when it finally gives way before yet another incarnation.

A few small examples will have to suffice to show how characterization and clarity sometimes suffer here as a result of the translator's ostensible literalness.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence.

Clarity seduces.

His ostensible mandate was reform.

His ostensible crimes were espionage and terrorism.

"Midlife clarity".

Moral clarity!

For clarity.