Ostensibly, he is perfectly polite and artfully flirty, but you sense a reservoir of disdain and spikiness sloshing about just below the surface, and you brace yourself against the moment he decides to draw on it.
What most of them ostensibly do is perfectly legal — talking to teenage girls is not a crime.
Yes, it's ostensibly a silly phone case perfectly sized to ruin the pocket-lining of your structured camel coat but Krusty's colour scheme is also bang-on Gucci AW15 meets seapunk.
Nor do we find that the FBI's reports take on a sinister color when read in light of common knowledge that bookmaking is often carried on over the telephone and from premises ostensibly used by others for perfectly normal purposes.
Athens's capture of Eion on the Strymon, also in 476, was perfectly in keeping with the ostensibly Panhellenic or anti-Persian program of the Delian League: Eion, an economically and strategically important site in northern Greece, was still held by a Persian commander.
It was a perfectly Pink Floydish way to end Pink Floyd: ostensibly an act of reconciliation and closure after years of rancour, it still revealed a great deal about the icy British reserve that shrouded the band's career.
The European Parliament building perfectly illustrates this ambition: it was built by banks, ostensibly as an international conference centre but in reality a political manoeuvre to "steal" the Parliament from Strasbourg.
Speaking in Italy earlier this month, the globe-trotting celebrity monk exiled in northern India and ostensibly retired from the murky business of politicking said they were perfectly sane but fatally enraged at China's "brutality" towards Tibetans.
Perhaps the commercial success of such ostensibly uncommercial material is down to the fact Lamar makes music that perfectly reflects its era.
Ostensibly, the brochure is a newsletter to inform his constituents of his activities, a perfectly legal perk of incumbency.
