Sentences with phrase «if ostensible»

And «If ostensible democratic societies are to persist with judicial review, then a variety of steps can be taken — reduced judicial powers, specialized constitutional courts, responsive appointment procedures, legislative overrides, greater judicial accountability, periodic constituent assembles, etc. — to de-sacralize and defrost the constitutional order.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

For if my ethical response to the sorrows of another precedes my exercise of judgment, I respond in the same way to all ostensible sorrows, whether authentic or not, self - indulgent or not, self - caused or not.

No Supreme Court case has ever held or implied that Congress's Commerce Clause authority is limited to individuals who are presently engaging in an activity involving, or substantially affecting, interstate commerce... if Congress can regulate even instances of purely local conduct that were never intended for, or entered, an interstate market, we think Congress can also regulate instances of ostensible inactivity inside a state.

If that's an odd declaration from an ostensible critic, then so be it.

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

Nolan seems to think the Wally Pfister photography can sell any scene, whether it's one of the most boring chase sequences in a big budget film (but it's at twilight and Pfister makes it look great) or if it's ostensible lead Christian Bale and his romantic interest, Marion Cotillard, letting the rainy afternoon bring out their passions.

Boseman and especially Letitia Wright (as his technical genius of a sister) are marvelous, but Jordan, who has appeared in all of Coogler's films to date, is utterly magnetic, infusing his ostensible villain with genuine pain and swagger that makes his already sympathetic aims (if not sympathetic methods) become even more attractive.

The film is also a wonderful meditation on the meaning of ostensible American values: what good is liberty and justice if we ignore them when times get tough?

When the ostensible smallness of their efforts were challenged, the little girl in the famous starfish parable responded, «It mattered to that one,» and Bill Clinton said of his philanthropy, «It shouldn't matter if we can't do everything....

Our ostensible «ocean view» was mostly obscured by other buildings, so if I'd been staying there any length of time, I would have wanted to try to switch rooms for a better view.

Even if one were to stipulate all of the ostensible «errors» Lewis claims, the only way he is actually able to justify his claim of disagreement with observations» ICS is by throwing out the observational ICS estimate used in the paper in favor of once he likes and obviously likes simply because of their low values.

The ostensible value add of improved journalism (or «journalism,» if you'd rather read blog - style articles) also isn't apparent.

For instance, if you purchase a health plan of Rs. 5 lakh at an age of 25 years then you might just pay a premium of Rs. 5000 but the same policy would cost you much more at an age of 35, even with no ostensible change in your health indicators.

The need to mold human children as if they were blank slates, or some kind of clay, has resulted in all kinds of now - discredited childrearing ideas over the eons, everything from the ostensible dangers of breastfeeding, to those of sparing the rod; from genital and other physical mutilations thought to be necessary for health or spiritual salvation, to the very mutilation of minds and emotions.

Many, if not most, lawyer parenting coordinators as well as many mental health professionals, notwithstanding their ostensible «training», completely lack psychological insight.