Sentence examples for ostensibly natural from inspiring English sources

Even ostensibly natural ingredients in a mattress's fill or ticking are suspect, in the view of some advocates.

But especially in the later examples, images of the ostensibly natural world and its denizens become metaphorical mirrors of an irrepressibly lively mind.

Early in the Histories, Herodotus makes reference to the way in which cities and states rise and fall, suddenly giving an ostensibly natural principle a moralizing twist: I shall... proceed with the rest of my story recounting cities both lesser and greater, since many of those that were great long ago have become inferior, and some that are great in my own time were inferior before.

Social constructivists have explored the ways in which culture and society have shaped even the most ostensibly natural differences between men and women.

The genre presents an alternative (though not preferable) model for childhood development: chronological age is diminished by military rank, the binary opposition between soldiers and civilians replaces graduated social distinctions between adults and children, and war disrupts the ostensibly natural developmental processes.

Yet evidently not all scientists on the list knew that a statement ostensibly about natural selection would be so marketed.

Margot Bittenbender is also drawn to nature, but her rather stark black and white intaglio prints, though they ostensibly present nature rather calmly, emphasize natural energy and tireless primal forces.

All our cleaning products, which were ostensibly "green" and "natural", are not as innocuous as they seem, this man's research claims.

A Chinese judge from the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague who ostensibly died of natural causes several years ago is now believed to have been killed by a hospital nurse, Dutch prosecutors said today.

That crisis was caused by a dispute ostensibly over payments and terms of shipping natural gas to the European Union.

The Bills spent a lot of time in their dime package, where then-coordinator George Edwards ostensibly preferred to get pressure from a natural four-man rush rather than blitz.