Sentences with phrase «about ostensible»

To continue the conversation about the ostensible «death of environmentalism,» we invited four next - generation leaders to discuss the issue with one another via email.

On the other hand, using that device to introduce your own opinions about climate sensitivity unrelated to a mislabeled table struck me the same way it struck David Wojick — as a means to promote your views publicly rather than to communicate a concern about the ostensible reason for your letter.

To use an extreme example (and not drawing an equivalence), obviously it's possible to have an incredibly diverse conference about the ostensible problems plaguing evo / devo without having a single mainstream evo / devo biologist (or I suppose relevant communicator like Carl Zimmer) in attendance.

I'm more concerned about ostensible Couch Potatoes who shift their asset allocation according to market conditions.

My pundit pals mostly dismissed my insistence that this was going to matter, just as they dismissed my caution about the ostensible frontrunner, La La Land, missing out on a SAG Ensemble nomination.

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.

If a man becomes a philanthropist with the deliberate intention of expecting to see his name in the New Year honors, we rightly feel that there is something hollow about his ostensible concern for others.

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).

Instead it is about the more nebulous concept of equal pay for work of equal «value», between ostensible mainly female jobs or mainly male jobs.

I sat there on the bed for a while, and then I did seek out my brother and apologize to him, and we all sat down quietly for lunch, and nothing else was ever said about this, until now, in this small essay; but the thought occurs to me that in a lot of ways I have been sitting on that bed ever since, pondering the way lies come so easily to our lips and spin so easily out of our ostensible control, and stab the innocent, and dilute respect, and poison love, and tear at what we so much wish to be, which is honest and gracious and reverent.

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).

In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed - off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs.

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.

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.

He meets the father (Falk) of his son - in - law - to - be, who tells hilarious dinner - table stories about the horrors of life in the Guatemalan bush country, where tsetse flies the size of eagles carry off small children; this fellow also mumbles something about working for the government, hoodwinking Kornpett into accompanying him on an ostensible mission against fiscal guerrillas hiding out on a Caribbean isle called Tijada.

Park Chan - wook's English - language debut has an ostensible plot: something Gothic and overheated about incest, secrets, and its young protagonist's coming of age.

The point, once again, is that it is entirely appropriate to ask which values a character education program is attempting to foster, notwithstanding the ostensible lack of controversy about a list of core values.

I am puzzled by the ostensible justification due to «absenteeism» — sounds like a straw target (like capacity — concepts Adamowski is always bandying about in his endeavor to privatize schools).

The issue of computer scoring — and the reluctance of the states and companies involved in the PARCC and SBAC consortia to be open with parents about this — is further evidence that the ostensible goal of the Common Core standards to encourage the development of critical thinking and advanced skills is a mirage.

When he had a larger network of friends — that period, about ten years ago, when everybody seemed to be between marriages — our ostensible reason for going somewhere would often be that we were on a mercy mission to cheer up so - and - so.

Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom cronies were all bouncing about on each other's bonces to cheery chiptune music, while SEGA was the ostensible renegade pushing into more mature markets, with its totally - not - on - drugs - while - this - shit - got - made likes of ToeJam & Earl and a mutant hedgehog with a kleptomaniac magpie's eye for gold rings.

While the ostensible subject is black men, the conversation that evolves in these pages is ultimately about the nature of living in a post-Obama, post-Ferguson, post-Voting Rights Act America.

CO2 is only responsible for about half the ostensible forcing with black carbon, methane, nitrous oxide, and CFCs making up the other half.

What happened to the ostensible «parade of storms» that is so often talked about in the context of major El Niño events?

With Oreo now rolling out across Verizon and T - Mobile versions of Motorola's ostensible flagship, the Z2 Force, it's encouraging that the OEM hasn't forgotten about the cheaper Z2 Play.