Sentence examples for ostensibly difficult from inspiring English sources

I love comedy but it's much more interesting to me to use comedy for things that are ostensibly difficult or uninteresting, to make them more accessible.

The anthropologist's ostensibly difficult studies that seem to come off with minimal effort, his travels (which appear as mere cinematic postcards), and his ultimate foreign-ministry sinecure are as much images of the French film industry's official productions and of Desplechin's own canonically professional and frictionless moviemaking as of Paul Dédalus's own rise.

She also meets another Englishman, Charles Doughty-Wylie, played by Damian Lewis, who at first appears to be just another blithering British officer who is infuriated by Bell's impetuous expeditions into difficult areas, ostensibly because she is upsetting the apple-cart, but really because they realise that this civilian has the imagination and flair which is showing them up.

Ostensibly the world's most difficult climb, it involves clinging to matchstick-sized slivers of granite with your bare fingers.

Ostensibly it is still quite difficult for me to be held for months or years on end without a trial (this because I am a white U.S. citizen, as opposed to so many others).

From time to time over the years, Congress has enacted legislation ostensibly to make it more difficult for U.S. firms to relocate overseas, but it never seems to have much effect.

A few days later, on December 31 , 2014 the IRS issued final rules for tax-exempt hospitals that ostensibly will make these practices more difficult, if not illegal.

Even with this ostensibly simple principle some of the difficult specification problems of distributive principles can be seen.

But for an ostensibly simple plastic packet, it proved devilishly difficult to redesign.

The intensely personal and cultural nature of this ostensibly simple imagery makes its underlying symbolism difficult to decipher.

She finished second to Ulrich Salchow, a feat that induced the officials to ban female competitors, ostensibly because their long skirts made it difficult for the judges to see their feet.