Sentence examples for ostensibly sensible from inspiring English sources

There is Marnie, the ostensibly sensible roommate with the cut-glass clavicles and galloping case of the martyrs.

The developer has repeatedly disputed those findings, and the majority of the island's residents support the wind farm, which is seen as a source of eco-pride and sensible thrift, ostensibly saving the island from the need to import pricier power from the mainland.

In essence the same applies to the spending review, which was invented by Gordon Brown ostensibly to give the appearance of having a sensible long-term economic strategy.

Louise Doughty's Apple Tree Yard (Faber) is ostensibly a courtroom drama that asks how its sensible, intelligent middle-class heroine ended up in the dock in a murder case – beguilingly written, steely and plausible and occasionally shocking.

Unless ostensibly liberty-loving conservative voters become convinced that the sensible liberalisation of drug and immigration policy is implied by the inspired language of the Constitution of Independence, the eagle will not soar for Mr Johnson.

At a time when more death and destruction is being perpetrated in the name of religion than for many decades past, sensible people should guard against nonsense in its name, however ostensibly harmless.

For Berkeley, ostensibly physical objects like tables and chairs are really nothing more than collections of sensible ideas.

If you live on the East Coast and you have friends like me who have moved from the West Coast or the Southwest (even from ostensibly mellow pockets of California and Texas like Santa Barbara and Austin), you have probably learned that it is sensible to steer clear of the whole subject of tacos.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

The commission is ostensibly independent.