Sentence examples for ostensibly ordinary from inspiring English sources

Ostensibly ordinary Americans.

"The gags fall like dead birds in a nuclear winter," wrote Radio Times's Alison Graham of this BBC sitcom about an ostensibly ordinary British family, the Harpers.

The actor has appeared in blockbusters, indie flicks and stinkers alike, but he finds what may be his perfect niche in The Voices, Marjane Satrapi's lurid tale of an ostensibly ordinary Joe who skips his medication and becomes a psycho-killer assailed by demons.

The advertisements were released unofficially – ostensibly by ordinary supporters of the party – but the production values suggested a professional hand.

This was, ostensibly, an ordinary regular-season game, but it felt like a celebration, because every night at Oracle since last fall has felt like a celebration.

Above all, she reveals a profound understanding of the widespread and unquestioned male aggression that women face in ordinary and ostensibly non-violent and consensual courtship.

But the legitimizing of tools to block arbitrary web addresses or snoop on and redirect ordinary traffic, however effective or ostensibly well-administrated they are, simply is not something anyone who supports a free and open web can allow.

Ordinary people will use this day ostensibly to celebrate the ceremonies of those born to privilege.

Peter Porter wrote recently of contradictions Murray's work throws up: "Murray's stance is ostensibly generous: he sees it as his duty to protect ordinary people from culture snobs, but his own art is prac tised at a level of elite virtuosity.

Saulwick selected ordinary people to tell stories of death – what is, ostensibly, an ordinary event.

"I'm very sympathetic to taxing capital gains like ordinary income; that's the issue this proposal is ostensibly addressing.