Sentence examples for ostensibly polite from inspiring English sources
It's "I don't know" turned into action, and a glimpse of the savagery beneath ostensibly polite discourse (something that cries out for release in "The Servant" and "The Homecoming," and works just as well in Pinter's script from Penelope Mortimer's "Pumpkin Eater").
But Shrigley in person is mild, polite, ostensibly English, though he has worked in Glasgow since studying there two decades ago.
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.
On Wednesday, in front of a polite crowd assembled by the Center for National Interest in Washington, DC, presidential candidate Donald Trump gave a speech ostensibly clarifying his foreign policy.
Ostensibly this aids transparency.
His teammates, ostensibly.
The commission is ostensibly independent.
That, ostensibly, was the end.
I'm ostensibly an expert.
Cattle, ostensibly, endure a similar fate.
