Sentence examples for ostensibly calm from inspiring English sources

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But perhaps the film's most extraordinary scene was one that was (ostensibly) calm.

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Like Urumqi, which has been flooded with soldiers since July 5, Kashgar is patrolled by young men in military camouflage, many of whom ride through the city day and night, their green army trucks draped with ostensibly calming slogans like "National Separatists Are Our Enemy".

Today, they're sharing lead track "Voyeurism," a sizzling slice of experimental techno; its ostensibly calming vocals lulls listeners into a false sense of security before barreling into a claustrophobic combination of breaks, blistering snares, and screeches.

Gardenhire, who has a history with Wendelstedt, made a trip to the mound, ostensibly to calm Pavano, but also to get himself tossed, just because.

Twins Manager Ron Gardenhire went out to visit Pavano, ostensibly to calm him, but it was clear he had a larger purpose: drawing out Hunter Wendelstedt, the plate umpire, so he could argue with him, a longstanding hobby.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott went on TV last week ostensibly to calm people down, saying, "We have the greatest assurances that these are normal military operations.

Nichols has returned to the force, ostensibly with Zen calm and more of the intuitive brilliance that we are meant to infer as his genetic inheritance.

Executives at SAC "have already reached out to the firm's largest investors to calm concern" about the ostensibly improper trades, Bloomberg News reports.

Coalition troops, ostensibly there only to hunt for Taliban and al-Qaeda, have helped to calm things.

Even Iran, ostensibly playing the good guy though doubtless eyeing Israeli support for the Juba government, has called for calm.

Not even pretty clothes (he designs them) or pretty girls (he just married one) can calm him as he and Chase Manhattan Bank, their tenant-and-landlord honeymoon unraveling in court, have declared war, ostensibly over sprinklers the bank maintains that he, the tenant, refused to install at 510 Fifth Avenue, off 43rd Street.

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