Sentences with phrase «as ostensible»

and less like what it really is, an attempt to fulfill the needs and wants of the adult men in question, will do as ostensible rationale.

That finding is not enough for an article, and so it has been paraded out as the ostensible reason for a write up whose larger purpose is to further a political agenda.

There is a palpable sense of the «not seen,» in part achieved with a working methodology that involves reduction and restraint, where seemingly straightforward imagery is all but ushered away from the conventions of representation, reconfigured as ostensible abstraction, to create an elliptical viewing experience in which fixed perspectives are destabilized.

For two days during the winter of 1993, Guillermo Gómez - Peña and Coco Fusco performed as ostensible natives from the mythical island of Guatinaui in the main lobby of Chicago's Field Museum.

It also stands as an ostensible end to the Solid Snake canon; each game since resides in prequel territory.

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

(Paul Bettany, as the ostensible heavy, mostly seems like he's clocking time between Infinity Wars.)

As an ostensible vehicle for the mother - daughter dream team of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, Wells's truncated take on August: Osage County necessarily gives them the lion's share of close - ups and wisely lets the film hinge on their escalating pas de deux.

Brie Larson holds nothing back as the ostensible lead.

Even before Obama secured the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, he was singing the praises of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which served as the ostensible basis for Spielberg's movie.

The voice acting is good — Sean Bean makes an appearance as the ostensible narrator — but there just isn't enough of it.

Elizabeth Olsen, trying hard to portray a reasonably real person, plays a helpmate - turned - lovemate for Joe, and Samuel L. Jackson, as the ostensible imprisoner, chalks up another Mr. Nasty for his portfolio.

Along with Brie, who after her roles in Community and Mad Men has long deserved a chance to take the wheel as the ostensible lead, GLOW welcomes another Nurse Jackie alum in Betty Gilpin, who lent Starz's American Gods a few memorable moments in season 1.

Instead of being used as an example of how appeasement might not work under certain conditions, Munich thus came to be invoked as ostensible evidence that appeasement never works, nor could it work, full stop.

Alberto Aquilani «When Xabi Alonso left Liverpool for Real Madrid last summer, Alberto Aquilani was swiftly brought in from Roma as an ostensible replacement.

After just one campaign at Anfield, he asked to leave the club, moving to Chelsea as an ostensible replacement for the injured Michael Essien.

The characters of Comrade Detective voice the propaganda of communist superiority, but they know — as the ostensible 1980s audience would have — that it's not really true, and this reality drives the plot.

As ostensible Republicans in Michigan the Romney family worked closely with the Democrat - UAW - AFLCIO troika.

Not exact matches

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb isn't mincing words about kratom, the increasingly popular herbal substance that's been hawked as an alternative to painkillers and anti-depressants by companies promoting its ostensible curative properties (and supposedly innate safety as a «natural,» plant - based product).

Banks and all forms of businesses are ostensible to check the SDN list to safeguard they do not yield financial services to people, organizations, and governments which the U.S. has designated as «blocked» due to impasse in terrorism, chief proliferation, kleptocracy, tellurian rights violations, and other crimes.

The most critical evil of cryptocurrency is the ability to be ostensible as remuneration for the squeeze of products and services.

Since cryptocurrency is not zodiacally ostensible as payment, this requires anticipating a trade counterparty, in essence, anticipating a fluke of wants.

In short, what we have here is ostensible legality as a cover for actual violence.

The case therefore was presented as political from first to last, without any ostensible religious overtones.

The ostensible purpose seems to be to get two current parents appointed as Foundation governors, something which the diocese say they have offered in private negotiations.

The manifestations of Arsenal's rot and decline in the late - Wenger era are many, but nothing quite sums up their shortcomings as powerfully, and the gap that has opened up between them and their ostensible rivals as visibly, as their results on their travels.

It was a night where many of the ostensible weaker links in Arsenal's chain came to the fore, which was just as well, as most of the side's better players like Samir Nasri and Johan Djourou were below par.

At the same time, while there tends to be little ostensible evidence in the UK of the blatant buying off of politicians and officials, the murky networks that connect political parties with private funders, and see the frequent movement of officials across the private and public sector, raise serious questions about the integrity of the public service ethos at the highest levels of power (as even Conservative commentators recognise — e.g. Ferdinand Mount, The New Few).

Yet despite this ostensible victory, the odds of going to university remained as firmly stacked as ever against working - class women — not only on the basis of their gender, but on the basis of the class they were born into.

As in any big city, despite a wealth of ostensible possibilities for meeting people, finding the person right for you can take time.

Collaborating with author Lawrence Wright, on whose 2013 book this documentary is based, director Alex Gibney follows a chronology of the church, beginning with Hubbard's origins as sci - fi pulp writer and world traveler, his development of Dianetics in the 1950s, and how his ostensible breakthrough in modern mental health slowly, and by design, metastasized into the legally protected, tax - exempt religion that exists today.

Keanu Reeves, by comparison, seems stiffer than usual as the film's ostensible romantic lead, even as he continues to move as gracefully as ever.

Through no fault of his own, Til Schweiger barely registers as Henrich, the film's ostensible villain.

If Friedkin gave his ostensible leads any direction, though, it doesn't show, as both Brown and Lowell deliver white - bread performances.

But the freshness of Perry's perspective is the truth that for everyone who reaches a «stop being an asshole» epiphany, there's a dozen or so who take ostensible life lessons and take it as reason to isolate themselves emotionally.

Perhaps it's the nature of its stage origins, or the ostensible «worthiness» of the project, or perhaps it's because the film is so bruisingly effective as to be almost overpowering.

He has a sagelike quality, spinning yarns about a woman on trial for murdering her husband or invoking Euclid to make moral sense of how to handle the Confederate delegation en route to Washington, using these ostensible digressions to illuminate truths he presents as self - evident.

The transformation of massively risky mountain - climbing, as an activity exclusively for scientists and highly - trained explorers to an adventure - tourism endurance test for the rich and obsessive, gets taken care of here in a series of three title texts at the beginning of the movie, starting with the ostensible conquest of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary's team.

Regardless of its base motives, Basic Instinct gave us a powerful woman character who made its ostensible hero look like a whiny wimp, as Dargis implies, and in the long run that investment of power may have mattered as much as, or more than, the nonsense and nastiness.

Some critics dinged You Were Never Really Here for its ostensible feel - bad sensationalism after its Cannes debut last year, and the film could indeed be spun as «topical» in the midst of our #MeToo moment.

Of course, in this moment, Effie is reading the names of the chosen victors from District 12, who include co-protagonists, ostensible lovebirds, and last year's winners, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a tailored pair Effie regards as the crowd - pleasing achievement of her career.

It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the year.

Not only can hardcore horror provide a corrective to «torture porn's ostensible «extremity», and the meanings of «torture porn» as a categorising term,» 4 it can also provide a redefinition of the boundaries of the genre within the context of contemporary U.S. horror.

The film's ostensible subject is the largely - unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, which split from Georgia after a violent separatist war in 1992, as well as the title's eponymous Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia's former Minister for Foreign Affairs; the film's other subject is Baudelaire's wider questioning of national identity.

However, while Harris makes for an appropriately smart and menacing adversary, the loss of Rachel McAdams (only briefly seen this time) as Holmes's romantic foil proves to be a more sizeable step backward; while she was not the most comfortable fit in the first film, her chemistry with Downey was promising — which becomes all too painfully clear when neither Downey nor Jude Law (as trusty sidekick Dr. Watson) show much rapport at all with her ostensible replacement, Noomi Rapace as a gypsy who (platonically) joins the duo's mission.

Not long after, someone will comment how, as an art installation, it's a withering indictment of junk culture, in response to which our ostensible heroine Susan (Amy Adams) intones, «Junk.

Early on in Jack and Jill, Mexican television star Eugenio Derbez, playing Sandler's landscaper, carries around an unopened bottle of Coca - Cola for no reason whatsoever, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in a movie that's just as much about commercials and product placement as it is about its ostensible, sibling - conflict premise.

A year later, he's still around, his ostensible affability giving way to malign intent, all smooth smiles as his confrontational manner cracks Catherine's psyche open a few notches further.

Fiennes stars as M. Gustave, concierge at the Grand Budapest Hotel and ostensible gigolo.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.