Sentence examples for ostensibly astonishing from inspiring English sources

Ostensibly astonishing details, like "a dimly lit temple guarded by an albino Sphinx" escape me.

The story it tells is poignant, yet somehow less than consequential, in part because the great and ostensibly astonishing reveal is telegraphed from the beginning, but mainly because the music never quite rises to the emotive crescendos the tale would seem to demand.

She had taken over the far-right National Front Party from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, less than a year earlier, and already Libération was declaring that thirty per cent of the French electorate would consider voting for her — an astonishing number for an ostensibly fringe group.

Having painstakingly built this apparatus of mathematical self-reference, Gödel came up with an astonishing twist: he produced a formula that, while ostensibly saying something about numbers, also says, "I am not provable".

The center's fellows and advisers — including the emeritus law professor Phillip E. Johnson, the philosopher Stephen C. Meyer, and the biologist Jonathan Wells — have published an astonishing number of articles and books that decry the ostensibly sad state of Darwinism and extoll the virtues of the design alternative.

He even garlanded a dish called Meat Fruit, ostensibly a glossy tangerine but containing chicken liver mousse, with the words "genuinely astonishing".

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

The commission is ostensibly independent.

That, ostensibly, was the end.

I'm ostensibly an expert.