Sentences with phrase «despite ostensible»

Despite the ostensible differences between Noguchi and Sachs — Noguchi focuses on the sublime, Sachs on social systems; Noguchi celebrates the majestic, while Sachs leans toward the satiric — «Tea Ceremony» establishes a correspondence between the artists that seems to push conventional interpretations of their work.

Despite its ostensible similarity to the PS, the Saturn was expensive, underpowered, under - gamed, and comparatively unfashionable.

Yet, this is a country of contradictions: despite the ostensible unimportance of Islam in Turkish society and its total exclusion from the business of government, every day at 5 p.m. the country reverberates to the haunting sound of the muezzin's call as 40 million Turks make their way to prayers.

Three decades on from Scorsese's exquisite, fire - starting «The Last Temptation of Christ,» then, «Mary Magdalene» can't help but look cautiously conservative by comparison, despite its ostensible freshness of perspective.

Despite its ostensible curiosity about the vagaries of human psychology, The Female Brain is never able to make these two characters or their relationship feel particularly believable.

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.

In European jurisdictions, despite ostensible controls, hundreds of patients are involuntarily euthanized every year.

Not exact matches

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

Yet, despite the latter's ostensible grit, both specialised in human anguish prettily presented for your viewing pleasure; Hooper's unapologetically indulgent, highly embellished approach isn't to everyone's taste but you've got to admire his bravado.

However, using personal data like political beliefs, health or sexual orientation most certainly does not - despite users giving ostensible consent, and sharing this data with brands.

It's significantly thinner and narrower than the Nexus 6, its ostensible predecessor despite looking and feeling nothing like Motorola's monster smartphone, and Huawei has done a great job — likely with Google's help — keeping everything simple and minimal.