Sentence examples for ostensibly perfect from inspiring English sources

Willem's abrupt changes of mood, his frequent evasions and the plot's melodramatic twists mar the ostensibly "perfect day".

Nat and Neil are an ostensibly perfect couple who find themselves hitting rocky terrain when Neil gets baby hunger before Nat.

Jim, whose luxurious Park Slope brownstone matches his ostensibly perfect family life (kind, devoted wife; three grown children, all in college), finds out how wrong it is to take such elegant stability for granted.

The story may hint at a counterlife — an altogether more prosaic, less pristine, less ostensibly perfect and, for that matter, respectable way of life, one that comes with its grimy and laborious trouble built in, its ugly places and stories present at hand — but Park doesn't offer a vision of it.

Implements with minor imperfections are often valued more highly, on the wabi aesthetic, than ones that are ostensibly perfect; and broken or cracked utensils, as long as they have been well repaired, more highly than the intact.

"A Suite of Dances," a solo in which the dancer seems to be deciding from minute to minute what he will do next, is ostensibly a perfect instance of Robbins's studied informality, his compromised abstraction, his imprisonment in "feeling".

Respected rather than liked in his native Italy, he is ostensibly the perfect fit for Chelsea in many ways.

Since the game instantly resurrects me, I have no real dread of death in Halo 3. In doing this, he basically encapsulates the psychology of the suicide bomber — my enemies have better weapons, intelligence, and abilities and I have nothing to lose, ostensibly, so it makes perfect sense to waste my life to do as much damage as possible.

It never helped the advocates of authenticity that Lei was photographed in perfect lighting while ostensibly reading Chairman Mao's works at night by flashlight.

For ID7589069, Macleod's ostensibly historical novel is a perfect story for our own time, with its demonstration of the universal nature of war.

Yet if that were true, several Israeli commentators asked on Monday, why did the Israeli government permit a visit that would provide a perfect pretext for ostensibly spontaneous violence?