Sentence examples for ostensibly harmless from inspiring English sources

In one notable case in December, an ostensibly harmless photograph of Zhou Jiugeng, a Nanjing housing official, found its way onto the Web.

My afternoon, post-massage, was largely spent wandering around the most ostensibly harmless fields I could find, attempting to recover my lost innocence.

At a time when more death and destruction is being perpetrated in the name of religion than for many decades past, sensible people should guard against nonsense in its name, however ostensibly harmless.

Featuring poolside shisha pipes, bottled beers and assorted football friends and team-mates both past and present, including Titus Bramble and Everton's Ross Barkley, they were ostensibly harmless but played straight into fans' nagging suspicions regarding the presence of a hedonistic culture in certain dressing room quarters.

Aside from the fact that these ostensibly harmless Russian operatives avoided lengthy prison terms by being selected for a prisoner exchange, one must consider the downside of spy-trading: In the hopes of securing future trade fodder, cases can be trumped up against innocent parties who can then be held as bait.

One of my favorite professors at the Columbia Journalism School, Victor Navasky -- former editor of The Nation (which started as a satire publication) and author of The Art of Controversy, a book highlighting the power of political cartoons -- made the point that the tragedy in Paris "was triggered by the ostensibly harmless medium of the cartoon, the caricature".

Smaller, and seemingly harmless?

Chan plays Bob Ho, ostensibly a harmless suburbanite in Santa Fe who's been dating Gillian (Amber Valletta), the single mom next door.

These Americans and Britons, say Iraqi officials, deliberately delay harmless supplies, ostensibly because they might have some improbable military purpose.

This 1968 profile from the Observer, ostensibly a review of two biographies, describes Lear as 'an utterly harmless man - irritable, quirky, hypochondriac, fussy, yet full of a certain sweetness'.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.