"seemingly great" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that appears to be great (positive or impressive) at first glance, but may have deficiencies or drawbacks upon closer inspection. For example: "The store had a seemingly great promotion, but the offer was not as good as it seemed at first."
Mr. Tommasini wrote of "King Roger," "Someone with my job should probably be able to explain why a seemingly great work has never caught on".
SANTA FE, N.M. — Someone with my job should probably be able to explain why a seemingly great work has never caught on.
Good times: Mike S. McCue, 34, raised almost $240 million two years ago on the sizzle of a seemingly great idea: Let's turn the humble and ubiquitous telephone into a Web browser.
The two can hardly sit still, they are so eager to show off old devices, framed media coverage and black-and-white pictures of them in front of blackboard calculations moldering mementos of seemingly great science.
All seemingly great or OK things. .
When after a seemingly great date, they say they had an amazing time and we'll talk soon, does it actually mean we will?
One of them sniffs that Swanberg takes "an approach to cinematography seemingly greater influenced by security cameras than by Murnau, Kurosawa, pick 'em" (which is patently ridiculous; Swanberg's cinematography is expressive and spontaneous even when it's rough-hewn).
Cyndi Lee, the owner of Om Yoga near Union Square, which recently announced it would close its studio in late June, has an explanation for the seemingly greater enthusiasm for meditation among yoga students.
The coming series of debates, like the election itself, pits Mr. Bush, who has long assumed that he has a personality advantage, against Mr. Gore, who taps a seemingly greater command of policy details.
Three recent polls show his approval rating in the 48-52 range, barely ahead of President Obama in the state, with voters indicating significant concern about DeMint's seemingly greater interest in stimulating a national ultra-conservative movement than in South Carolina issues and interests.
Dobbs, betraying impatience with those who were opposed to such legislation, said, with a smirk, "As we can often say on this broadcast with seemingly greater frequency, 'Only in America.'" On October 2nd, the correspondent Casey Wian began his report from California, "Lou, there are an estimated seven million illegal aliens now working in the United States.
