Sentence examples for ostensibly simply from inspiring English sources

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Similarly, while John Milton's daughters ostensibly simply transcribed their father's work, how can we say that in the act of writing they were not also editing, questioning, suggesting imagery and offering phrasing?

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In the exhibition itself you can see clearly how wishes, dreams and myths are embodied in pictures that ostensibly represent the world simply as it appears to visual perception.

Or rather: you sourced it from a colourfully named filesharing pirate website, which you were able to access, despite your country's ostensibly strict national firewall, simply by deploying an onion-routing browser as a countermeasure.

In a five-day period, 680 undocumented immigrants were rounded up in raids that ostensibly targeted "criminals," but actually netted people with no criminal convictions who were simply in the vicinity of the raid.

A debate isn't serious simply because it ostensibly deals with complicated subjects.

A perception that was fortified by the fact that I knew many people – ostensibly Nigerian – who were British simply because they were born in Britain (this automatic citizenship for babies born in Britain ended in 1983).

But the legitimizing of tools to block arbitrary web addresses or snoop on and redirect ordinary traffic, however effective or ostensibly well-administrated they are, simply is not something anyone who supports a free and open web can allow.

And she can still twist arms, ostensibly in the direction of checkbooks, simply by moving her lips.

It earns its place among all the ostensibly more exotic fare mentioned above, simply because I couldn't bear not to mention it.

In 1992, the New York rapper and tireless pedant KRS-One pushed the group P.M. Dawn off a stage — an act ostensibly in "defense" of hip-hop — simply because the ensemble sampled a melodic pop song and sang.

The costumes were ostensibly designed by Martin Pakledinaz, but overall they are so peculiarly eclectic and undistinguished that you may think the performers are simply wearing their own clothes.

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