Sentence examples for ostensibly happy from inspiring English sources

The ad, by the British director Gary Tarn, features a series of ostensibly happy clients.

A cynic could argue that all ostensibly happy marriages are really power struggles in disguise.

Freedom tells the story of Patty, her environmentalist husband Walter, and their children Jessica and Joey, an ostensibly happy American family who begin to fall apart.

McCartney plays the mandolin and sings ostensibly happy lyrics ("Everybody gonna dance tonight / Everything gonna feel all right"), but his voice, once preternaturally smooth, has developed a rasp, and the song's minor chords gave it a mournful air.

Which is why the movie's ostensibly happy ending rings hollow: I immediately anticipated the sequel, "Benefits Without Friends," in which, after the couple marry, one or both of them meet someone they lust after but have little in common with.

Medication worked, but having barely regained his sanity Lott picked up the phone one day to learn that his mother – a healthy, busy, ostensibly happy woman in her late 50s – had hanged herself in the family home.

It's thanks to such online retailers, recession and austerity policies that we're experiencing one of the few booms in recent years; namely, a nostalgia boom, as well-known stores curl up and die, leaving us with memories of ostensibly happier times.

His rebellion is not excused by poverty or abuse and although his father came back from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder, they were ostensibly a happy family.

Ms. Foote, the playwright's daughter and a peerless interpreter of his characters, is ostensibly the happiest of the three.

The story ostensibly has a happy ending Spirit sent another flight down to pick up the stranded passengers, and they finally landed in Florida at 4 45 AM Friday morning, just about five hours later than originally planned.

So now, with the record ostensibly finished, is he happy with it?