Sentence examples for superficially real from inspiring English sources

In both crime fiction and TV drama the reader or the audience is aware that the female "victim" is only superficially "real".

It was, superficially, a real racket, but the winds inside the storm were all moving in destructive tandem.

Potential threats posed by returnees from bloody sectarian conflicts, superficially at least, appear real enough.

Though the tone is superficially amiable, Max's real disgust with literary falseness is felt on every page.

[cartoon id= a19183"] Though the tone is superficially amiable, Max's real disgust with literary falseness is felt on every page.

Though built by private firms, they are the result of taxpayer-financed programmes, often on a "cost-plus" basis, that only superficially resemble anything which a real entrepreneur would recognise as free-market capitalism.

Uber for instance may seem superficially expensive, but it has real revenues and is an amazing business.

On the use of specific technologies, the report largely punts, offering superficially encouraging language but little real framework for reform.

So the return of a superficially-reformed Golkar remains a real possibility.The party is divided, however, over how and when to resurrect itself.

Farage is somebody who superficially might look like he has real importance, but I don't see him as a winner.

Given the almost dizzying frequency of diet-related headlines, the one true revelation about nutrition is superficially the least likely: there is no real news about nutrition.