Sentence examples for ostensibly great from inspiring English sources

But focusing on ostensibly great men of history like Lord Balfour seems like a perfect way to keep the visceral daily indignities of the occupation out of focus.

Despite the ostensibly greater sophistication of Europeans about boys being boys, Britain has been showing an indiscreet curiosity about its politicians' private lives as well, sometimes with the co-operation of the politicians themselves.

The number of troops supplied by our European allies in Afghanistan has been comparatively modest, in spite of the ostensibly greater danger to them by the proximity of Al Qaeda to Europe.

The LSA measure reported here was calculated as the cosine distance between vectors representing two words in high-dimensional semantic space, with higher numbers reflecting ostensibly greater semantic or contextual relatedness (Landauer & Dumais, 1997).

Putin's unexpectedly calm response after indications of retaliatory aggression that would "cause serious discomfort to the American side," was ostensibly the "great move" Trump spoke of in his tweet that is now prominently "pinned" to the top of his timeline.

Three months after Kerouac came down from Desolation he learned that Viking would finally publish "On the Road" — ostensibly his greatest triumph, but in reality the beginning of his end.

It is Barber's great-great-great-grandson, ostensibly a white man called Cedric, who unveils the plaque commemorating his ancestor.

They weren't ostensibly about the great poetic subjects: mortality, good versus evil and beauty and truth and the like.

Ostensibly it's great that talented actors such as Mo'Nique (Precious, 2009), Octavia Spencer (The Help, 2011) and Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave, 2013) are winning Oscars, but isn't the shine taken off somewhat by the fact they were rewarded by the establishment for playing, respectively, a psychotic "welfare queen", a neo-Mammy in a white savior period picture, and a chronically abused slave?

The rise of YouTube ostensibly provided a great solution.

The major restructuring will ostensibly give investors greater insight into how the money is being spent.