Sentence examples for ostensibly seemed from inspiring English sources

If racial problems have been a gaping rent in the American dream since the country's inception, things ostensibly seemed to be improving for much of the last decade.

Ideally, your business plan or career path would be aligned with your passions -- though they may not, ostensibly anyway, seem related.

But the visit, which brought much of Rome to a standstill, seemed ostensibly aimed at reminding Italy and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi what Libya is owed.

His ostensibly thriving enterprise seemed to have no connection to the local economy, and Ghiya spent very little time at the showroom; his son, who was in his twenties, ran the shop.

That it was ostensibly real life seemed to only deepen the passions inflamed by the events, leaving a media desperate to provide enough content to feed the beast.

That seemed ostensibly to be half the fun though, as the actors exclaimed to each other, "we need to find someone with a script!" or "we need to rehearse more!", to fits of onstage laughter.

But they were young adults at that time, and after the war, with Jews back on Bayreuth's rosters and with Bayreuth's alliances with the cultural institutions of former enemies restored, Bayreuth and the Wagner family, ostensibly sans Winifred, seemed to be making credible efforts to move beyond the past.

But a couple of the works coast on a deliberate sketchiness: the Miró-esque doodle "Done Got Old" or the scratchy black Pac-Man shape in "Bois-Tu de la Bier?" These ostensibly impulsive gestures seem inauthentic next to the other paintings, which are canny in their references and strategic in their execution.

But you connect with their insolence as it is somewhat endearing how ostensibly fearless they seem to be, and, yet, how truly sad they are beneath all that pretense.

Ostensibly, the joke seems to be that Brown is such a nice, well-liked person that the idea of her saying vile, hyperbolic things is incongruous and funny, but, you know, it's difficult to find any humor in any joke that takes aim at a literal child who isn't even old enough to drive.

Ostensibly guided by others, he never seemed less than fully in control.