Sentences with phrase «ostensible best»

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.

And even the ostensible good guys, like Ragnar, are prone to do very bad things, without making them any less watchable.

The fact that Ubisoft prides itself on making its Far Cry villains complicated and charismatic, that the ostensible good guys also include white Americans, and that you, the player, can also be a white American, has not tempered this reaction in the slightest, of course.

Not exact matches

Even with Project Scorpio's ostensible performance perks, it's hard to imagine Microsoft's Xbox One selling so well, month over month, that it manages to outpace Sony by sufficiently consistent margins to reverse the broad trajectories of this console generation.

The ostensible «good guys» of the series, the Starks have mostly been a vehicle for George R.R. Martin to show that honor has no reward in his world.

It was a night where many of the ostensible weaker links in Arsenal's chain came to the fore, which was just as well, as most of the side's better players like Samir Nasri and Johan Djourou were below par.

After all, unlike the UPK tax hike battle, the only people who will be negatively affected by his policy are his ostensible base: primarily black and Latino working - class people who are committed to getting their kids the best education possible.

Much of the rhetoric emanating from the International Convention Centre in Birmingham over the last couple of days is marked by a degree of ostensible radicalism well beyond anything heard in ministerial speeches under New Labour:

Over at Liberal Conspiracy, Dave Osler writes that much of the speeches made at this year's Lib Dem conference have been «marked by a degree of ostensible radicalism well beyond anything heard in ministerial speeches under New Labour».

Ostensible bad guy Sullivan does good by collaring a number of prominent gangsters (Costello's rivals) while supposed good guy Costigan amasses considerable evidence against Costello by participating in all manner of gangland horrors.

But once they find the ostensible bad guys — Xiang (Yen), Talon (Jaa), Serena (Bollywood star Deepika Padukone) and Hawk (British UFC fighter Michael Bisping)-- it becomes unclear which are the good guys and which are the bad guys.

It happened this weekend: The BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS (of which I am a veteran member) met for the 37th time and voted Paul Thomas Anderson's PHANTOM THREAD (which a significant number of critics have not yet seen) starring Daniel Day - Lewis in his ostensible farewell performance as a fictional couturier, the BEST FILM of the year.

The voice acting is good — Sean Bean makes an appearance as the ostensible narrator — but there just isn't enough of it.

The film's ostensible subject is the largely - unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, which split from Georgia after a violent separatist war in 1992, as well as the title's eponymous Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia's former Minister for Foreign Affairs; the film's other subject is Baudelaire's wider questioning of national identity.

Shyamalan understands too well his own formula and with Signs, his third overtly supernatural film after The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, he displays an unbecoming self - consciousness that renders his ostensible subject allegorical subtext, with his own favourite issues (the father / son dynamic, the comic book spirituality) the only reason for the film's existence.

Really only Tsui Hark has managed to make a great movie out of an origin story (with A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon), and that was by turning the ostensible hero into a side character for much of the film, allowing it to be driven by his mentor.

By the end of the film, he's killed the ostensible hero of the story, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) and possibly killed his wife, Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) as well.

Few would argue against The Tree of Life being one of the very best films of the year, but it remains the biggest wild card of awards season, a massively beloved masterpiece whose impressionistic style and ostensible inaccessibility have presumably prevented it from surging forward as a sure thing.

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?

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.

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.

The ostensible goal of the changes is better fuel economy, but the improvements also make the Genesis significantly quicker.

The Bolt EV is actually just 0.3 seconds slower to 60 mph than a 2016 Ford Focus ST, an ostensible «hot hatch,» and some EV fans have wanted to call the Bolt a «hot hatch» as well.

Apple understood that the final Apple Agency Agreements ensured that the Publisher Defendants would raise their retail e-book prices to the ostensible limits set by the Apple price tiers not only in Apple's forthcoming iBookstore, but on Amazon.com and all other consumer sites as well.

In awarding $ 3,740 in damages the court found that the IRS had intentionally and willfully ignored the discharge order and that an ostensible defense of «good faith» would not stand.

The ostensible reason is to fund the ongoing lawsuit with the State of New York as well as to fund ongoing operations.

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.

An excerpt of the document reads: «Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons's art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices, lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.

Her ostensible subjects are unremarkable: a lineup of derelict greenhouses, the well - worked rock face of a quarry, the tangled undergrowth of her own garden.

They share the ostensible subject matter of color, as well as a loose - fitting stylistic rigor and an academic concern for the generative power of visual repetition.

«Behind the ostensible façade of Jeff Koons» art world triumphs and record - breaking auction prices,» a filing by litigator Aaron Richard Golub charges, «lurks a well - oiled machine, more specifically an established, archaic System as old as the hills applied to the art world to exploit art collectors» desire to own Jeff Koons sculptures.»

The exhibition called «The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890 - 1985,» which Maurice Tuchman has organized with the assistance of Judi Freeman at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is the kind of event that illuminates a good deal more than its ostensible theme.

Fairly or unfairly, climate scientists are better known for the views of their ostensible political supporters than for their own.

Law schools and law firms had ethics and pride in doing important work well, and exchanged them for cash and ostensible prestige.

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

This person is sacrificing part of her day for absolutely no ostensible benefit, so you'd better make it a pleasant encounter for her, and more importantly, make her feel like she helped.

Their opinion articles catering to the fatherhood promotion movement and to discussions of ostensible needs and solutions that advance the best interests of mental health professionals who seek opportunities to ply their trade in the justice system should not be confused with write - ups and analysis of actual findings of credible research.

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