Sentences with phrase «giving ostensible»

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.

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

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De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

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.

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.

Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Buddies Travel Back to the «80s in Raunchy Road Comedy If the ostensible objective of each generation of raunchy road comedies is to up the ante in terms of debauchery, then Hot Tub Time Machine definitely deserves to be given its due, since this relentlessly - vulgar exercise in depravity easily outdoes many of the earlier examples of the shock genre.

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.

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.

Before long, Kurt is persuading Alex to pose for one of his paintings — all of which feature gigantic close - ups of puckered anuses — while Charlotte, during an ostensible booze run, demonstrates to Emily her penchant for giving happy endings at a nearby massage parlor.

Amid the kerfuffle over the generally baffling awards given by the jury headed by George Miller at last year's Cannes Film Festival, a fair bit of attention was paid to the award for Best Actress, which was given to Jaclyn Jose, the ostensible lead of Ma» Rosa, the film directed by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza.

Abrahams» imagery — and his handling of it, especially in his innovative use of materials — is very much of his time, but he was able also to give the work an objective distance, in order to comment upon its ostensible subject.

(iii) Careful consideration had to be given in all cases, but particularly where there was a significant discrepancy in age, to the extent to which ostensible consent had been obtained opportunistically, or by means of coercion, which might be subtle, or exploitation, which would be particularly relevant in cases where there might have been an element of grooming.