Stanza one welcomes the child: stanza two is spoken over the shoulder to the detractors, while still ostensibly addressing little Betsy.

Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing, although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work.

He turned an imperiously arched eyebrow on McCoy, for all that he ostensibly addressed only me.

And he looked up to see the sympathy in the eyes of someone who'd asked herself questions not so different from those he'd just ostensibly addressed to himself.

As noted above, Justice Catron's opinion ostensibly addressed only the New York case (Smith vs. Turner).

The remark, addressed ostensibly to Mackenzie, was meant for Tom, he knew, for surely Mackenzie must long ago have been told about Star.

Although ostensibly addressing his disciples, most scholars conclude the chapter is written with events concerning the later church in mind.

"Let's put the Hyperion demonstration to a vote," he said, ostensibly addressing Gladstone but speaking to the crowd.

Because the ideas in Mr. Schapiro's articles are inevitably bigger than the recondite subjects he is ostensibly addressing.

He turned toward the Lieutenant, ostensibly addressing Wainright when he spoke.