Sentence examples for ostensibly clever from inspiring English sources

And how many of you wondered why an ostensibly clever man like Jeff Chen would allow himself to open a puzzle — his lovely bride's New York Times debut, no less — with such a shining example of crosswordese?

I find it incredible that so many ostensibly clever people still think they are important.

Ostensibly this is to prevent clever hackers from loading their own operating systems onto the calculators (the horror!).

Ostensibly this posture may appear clever in a domestic campaigning context, where Russia is widely viewed in a negative light.

I couldn't find any film of maestro Rapee himself, but here he is conducting his orchestra as they play "This Is the Mrs". in 1930: We also have a two-L LLAMA humming to her young (ostensibly Top 40) and the very clever I.T. GUY for the clue "One providing assistance after a crash".

He promptly falls for one, a clever, gangly black-eyed girl named Shirin Farameh, ostensibly the daughter of one of the heads of the shah's air force.

Whatever you choose to call him, the scholastikos is so clever that he's stupid, and regularly uses his (ostensibly) highly trained brain to come to precisely the wrong conclusion.

In fact, his post, which ostensibly calls for everyone to be positive no matter what, is really just a clever way of inciting the mob to blame (in this case) TechCrunch for the market problems.

It is a clever book ostensibly about spying, yet really about writers and the alchemy of fiction.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.