Sentence examples for this purports from inspiring English sources

This purports to be a frank autobiography, but much of the book is coldly impersonal.

This purports to be a grassroots campaign, but it was founded and funded by the Koch brothers.

This purports to be more than just a bid to irk Labour by pinching one of its favourite adjectives, promising to realise "progressive ends by conservative means".

This purports to be a work of "new recipes", although in fact there's some duplication from previous volumes – pappa al pomodoro, pork cooked in milk.

As you may have gathered from the book's title, this purports to be a collection of aphrodisiacal recipes, although some of them are quite off-putting (skink, sparrows' brains, pie of bulls' testicles, vulvae steriles).

This purports to be the best explanation of the universe beyond the Standard Model of physics that describes all known particles and forces, but which is generally acknowledged to be incomplete.

Couldn't our nurses, home helps and other healthcare workers use some of this (purported) literary elixir?

This purported to be a documentary about the fauna of the American northwest after the last Ice Age, 14,000 years ago.

But how exactly would state neutrality constitute an appropriate response to this purported fact?

And the position then offers an explanation of this purported fact.

This purported link between capacities for production and perception suggests that humans are unique in possessing a speech perception system.