Sentence examples for ostensibly engaged from inspiring English sources

As usual, his characters speak in monologues even when they are ostensibly engaged in dialogue.

When her father's brother visits (he's ostensibly engaged to her aunt), a betrayal ensues that reverberates across many years and two continents.

A white person who sells a house to an African-American because the latter makes the best offer is ostensibly engaged in the same behavior as a white person who sells a house to an African-American because he is in a panic and just wants to unload his property at any price.

Pictures taken in a private place of such an intimate nature, plainly ostensibly engage a right to privacy.

In short, for a man ostensibly engaging in peace talks, Jeremy Hunt has demonstrated once again his skills as a consummate agitator.

We are always waiting to hear good news, even as we ostensibly are engaged in something else.

"Neither the word 'terrorism' nor the phrase 'advocating the overthrow of the government' are talismanic, especially where FBI purports to be investigating individuals who ostensibly are engaged in protected First Amendment activity".

Again, this is the individual who, frankly, was essentially let loose on a number of public officials whose identities were curiously made public even though they engaged in ostensibly no provable wrongdoing -- to their great prejudice in the public eye.

After the person dies, the Hereafter Institute can then ostensibly take these images and make the client appear to engage in activities he or she enjoyed in life, such as cooking, reading, writing, or having sex.

Mayke Nas's "DiGiT #2," ostensibly for piano four-hands, engaged Ms. Kaplan and Mr. Duvall in stagey forearm crashes and playground clapping games.

It is currently engaged in fierce and ostensibly successful offensives in the Damascus area and in Homs Province.