Sentences with word «ostensible»

On the occasion of the auction, artist Richard Phillips, whose work often takes iconic celebrity figures as ostensible subject matter, has collaborated on a video interview discussing mass media's depiction of celebrity.

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

They often try to hide it and come up with ostensible reasons for opposing the same things, but underlying it is always their religion.

Ostensible lead Ethan Chandler had already settled into a funk, and with the introduction of two new characters it felt like Penny Dreadful was still clearing its throat before getting on with the good stuff.

Where John Wayne's Ethan Edwards went looking for a young girl abducted in a Comanche raid, Bidegain's ostensible hero is a father searching for a daughter who has left her family of her own volition to be with her Muslim boyfriend.

If a person with ostensible authority to bind the corporation does so then the corporation is bound.

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

Despite ostensible agreement on the desirability of alternative fee arrangements, the study found 70 per cent of private practitioners continue to rely on hourly billing.

Chiwetel Ejiofor will be playing Baron Mordo, the film's other ostensible villain.

The second ostensible aim is to restrict third - party campaigning in election periods.

Other ostensible benefits include an on - card display (usually of the e-ink variety, a la a Kindle), the ability to «lock» your card remotely or via proximity to your phone in the event that it's lost or stolen, and some combination of a classic magnetic stripe card, the newer chip model, and near field communication (NFC) payments like you might find on a smartphone.

Postcard - pretty but vaguely gawky Blake Jenner plays ostensible protagonist Jake, a gently meat - headed freshman pitcher who might as well be Boyhood's Mason had Linklater's last mild - mannered hero never found a passion in photography.

It has the lighthearted ostensible plot of a very basic anime dating sim.

The measure on the Senate calendar today would allow candiates to select a panel of up to three people who would appoint a treasurer for their campaign committee in order to ensure the remaining money is used with the candidate's ostensible best wishes in mind.

Would you have a different view of the validity of the conclusion if the fine (assuming it is paid) weren't seemingly headed for the federal gov» t's general fund, but instead to some fund whose ostensible purpose relates to preventing the reccurence of the events in the case?

So there are calls for universal health care, education, disarmament, the «equitable distribution of wealth,» «racial, religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic equality,» participatory democracy, and «the full and equal participation of women in civil, cultural, economic, political, and social life» — gifts for just about everyone in a document whose ostensible focus is on the environment.

The red - hot Nationals, who just suffocated a pair of ostensible contenders from Missouri, are an ordinary bunch of hitters, at best.

For one thing, there is no real or ostensible connection between Whitehead's notion of God or religion and the symbols of the Christian tradition, although of course this does not mean that they are necessarily incompatible with one another.22 Whitehead does value religion, however, and does have a place for God.

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.

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.

The entire season turned on when the titular motorcycle club would go to Belfast to find ostensible main character Jax's kidnapped baby.

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

After waxing snidely on the seediness and the ruthlessness of the music industry, the A&R manager finds their debut album in his colleague / rival / ostensible friend Waters» (James Corden) CD collection and condescendingly asks why the fuck he'd still have it.

Zoloft's ostensible effects on newborns have included complications requiring prolonged hospitalization, respiratory support, and tube feeding.

At 91, the Italian titan was rendered incapable of speaking and partly paralysed by a stroke, but nevertheless produced this essentially silent featurette, a woozy union of experience and perception that asks us to devote no less attention to a glass rolling across a restaurant floor than it does two lovers whose quarrelling is the only ostensible human subject matter.

Particularly in families with international connections, it is not unusual for there to be anxiety that the other parent's ostensible plans to take a child away on holiday are truly plans to abscond abroad permanently without returning.

The other (even if ostensible) benefit, and that is how it is probably presented to the NATO allies, is that it assuages the harm done by the Turkey - Russia military incident in which a Russian military plane had to be shut down because it flew unresponsive in the Turkish airspace for 17 seconds.

-- sometimes called «Senator Snowball» for his stunt introducing a snowball on the Senate floor as ostensible evidence against global warming — attacked me by name in a Senate speech, maligning my research methods and findings.

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.

We pretend the Oscars never honor female directors, but Oscars go to female directors sometimes... in ostensible second - tier categories such as this and Best Documentary.

Ostensible heroine Bella is such a weak, needy, pathetic co-dependent who stirs up so much sh*t for those she purportedly loves that it's hard to muster much rooting interest for her.

Jack Huston kicked off 2016 as one of the better parts of the fairly terrible Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, stealing scene after scene from ostensible male lead Sam Riley.

As the film doesn't give a sense of how this world — where people appear to dress only in suits and walk from jobs unknown to homes unseen — fundamentally sustains itself, it's impossible for Thomas's ostensible desire to build a future in opposition to the Last City's ideals to resonate with moral purpose.

(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.

Consequently, we charge ostensible cost for them to finish the task of Criminal Law.

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.

In those cases ostensible consent might well have little value as mitigation.

Against other smart home assistants, the HomePod's targets are different from ostensible competitors like the Amazon Echo.

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.

With the airwaves full of ostensible experts yelling at one another in cynical displays of political theatre, people were eager for a wonky stats guy who promised to cut through the bullshit.

«This new world is marked by the collapse of the totalitarian project - and by a pervasive, at least ostensible, commitment to democratic government and an equally pervasive, and more actual, commitment to cultural autonomy and national independence.»