Sentence examples for ostensibly small from inspiring English sources

"The Model Apartment" is a stealth bomber, an ostensibly small and quiet work that, before you quite know it, has set your very foundations rattling.

(Mr. Wilson's hometown), "Talley's Folly" is an ostensibly small play with a panoramic view, traveling along generational and genealogical terrain but centered on two ordinary people.

Ostensibly small problems are a big deal; I vividly remember the prick of tears and tightening of my throat when I realised I'd been given the wrong change in the knowledge that it would screw up a meticulously planned budget.

They get a great deal out of the simplest musical resources, they excavate extraordinary and multiple levels of sense from their words, and their ostensibly "small" forms give distilled voice to the very biggest themes of Britten's work – except that 'themes' is much too dry a word.

If you are a man and you walk into a restaurant and the waiter greets just you, does it occur to you to ask the waiter, "Why have you not greeted her?" Men need to speak out in all of these ostensibly small situations.

Therefore, ostensibly small differences in recommendation, or misinterpretation of a specific recommendation, substantially affect apparent physical activity status.

"Killings" is a collection of pieces that are all ostensibly about small-town murders, but are really about American values, the imperatives of  local cultures and deadly quirks of fate.

Then he wrote, "Seriously, we would very much appreciate your input and expertise!" To some critics, the participation of G.E., one of the biggest corporations in America, in a meeting ostensibly about small-business concerns is one example of a larger concern about the Office of Advocacy.

That small, ostensibly innocuous things, such as wearing the hijab or refusing to sell bacon, or even having a long beard, are the opening credits to a final scene of death.

Morath ostensibly operates a small ad agency, but his real, spine-tingling job is working with his uncle, a Hungarian diplomat, on efforts to undermine the fascist regime in their country.

The by-products of thousands of smaller, ostensibly less wasteful reactors would soon add up.