Sentence examples for ostensibly but from inspiring English sources

It's a documentary, ostensibly, but it's also a genre-defying film about memory and fiction and their strange, liquid relationship with the truth.

"North Korea is doing an act of double standard by taking a peace offensive ostensibly, but later launching reckless provocative acts," he said.

her lust is for power, ostensibly, but if you think that's all it is, you're not looking at her pleading, glistening, hopeful eyes or listening to her voice.

The good news is all those "insensitive" social-media posts that are ostensibly but not at all about the news actually do little or no harm to a company.

In 2003, ostensibly but misguidedly as part of his global war on terror, the younger Mr Bush invaded Iraq, rid the country of Saddam but then got bloodily stuck; it took a vast commitment of American troops and fresh thinking to bring the violence under control.

But he did not sound like he was acting as Morsi's protector; the forty-eight hours have been interpreted less as the time the protesters have to disperse than a deadline for the President to leave or make some accommodation — to the people of Egypt, ostensibly, but likely ultimately to the military in practice.

Other, perhaps more pernicious, problems can occur when the service is ostensibly working but is in fact returning plausible, but erroneous results.

In May, it all happened again, for ostensibly different but ultimately related reasons.

They are ostensibly monogamous but have an "if you cheat, please don't tell me" rule.

The government began leaking ostensibly damning but unverifiable details about its investigations on Friday.

That her reasons are ostensibly practical but subterraneanly moral and spiteful.