Sentence examples for to ostensible from inspiring English sources

Even to ostensible friends, like Alfred Kazin, she conducted herself in conversation "as if she were standing up alone in a foreign land and in a foreign tongue against powerful forces of error".

This story came to my attention after it made the jump to ostensible outlets for actual news, like a country music radio station in Canada.

In an apparent effort to build ostensible ties to the church, Mr. Follieri also met with clergy and traveled with a monsignor.

The show seemed in no real hurry to get to the ostensible meat of its main story: rescuing Sir Malcolm's daughter Mina from the clutches of Dracula.

It's understandable, given Macdonald's adherence to Marxism, that he would have been less sensitive to movies' aesthetics than to their ostensible politics.

But there clearly appears to be a floor to his ostensible "toxicity".

The failure to bring us closer to this ostensible anchoring figure leaves a gray hole at the film's center.

For decades I'd tried to put as much distance between myself and Judaism as possible, and the idea that I was supposed to feel some connection to my ostensible homeland seemed ridiculous.

(Buddhafielders were sometimes ordered to maintain ostensible friendships with these people to keep tabs on them, should anyone choose to contact the authorities).

With Romney using every campaign stop to reiterate his intention to declare China a currency manipulator, the Global Times pointed to an ostensible consensus that his "arrogant comments lack basic common sense".

If inferior diesel fraction after hydro-refining and blending can be supplied for sales in the form of regular diesel, it is not necessary to convert inferior diesel fraction to other fuels (naphtha, gasoline or jet fuels) due to the ostensible advantage of price between gasoline and diesel fraction.