Sentence examples for ostensibly serious from inspiring English sources

I tried for 20 years to write ostensibly serious fiction.

Ostensibly serious news outlets suspend normal journalistic practices in discussing the Peterson gang.

If it were not so ostensibly serious, you might well mistake this film for an inspired, deadpan psycho-exploitation picture.

"After charging him with having this ostensibly serious classified document, the government waved a wand and decided it wasn't so classified after all," Radack says.

In 1965, two years after his contemptuous First World War, AJP Taylor published the ostensibly serious, and bestselling, England 1914-1945.

It is however, consistent with a long heritage of the western gaze, spanning everything from misery-porn about Muslim women, to ostensibly serious journalism that shows life "behind the veil".

That means darker and ostensibly more serious, more violent, more frightening, more grownup — more "worthwhile," as Lucas put it.

It wasn't quite Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin tossing insults at each other while ostensibly debating a serious political issue.

Yes, the Republican party, ostensibly a "very serious" organization, has given its formal blessing to the xenophobic pipe dream that has been the centerpiece of Trump's campaign from the start.

An article in The New York Times called the debate "reminiscent of that old Saturday Night Live sketch... [with] Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin tossing insults at each other while ostensibly debating a serious political issue," referring to a version of the long-running Weekend Update segment.

And so does Paco Underhill, but he ostensibly shops for more serious reasons.