Sentences with phrase «ostensible focus»

Vigorous blue brush marks add a threatening, thunderous tone to an image which at first glance appears completely abstract, in which the ostensible focus of interest, Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland, is shown simply as a blank area of paper, as though the great mass of medieval stone had been reduced to a dazzling blur of reflected light.

Some of it is exclusive, and much has at least an ostensible focus on learning.

Not exact matches

Disillusionment with Wall Street fund manager performance and an increasing focus on low fees remain the ostensible drivers.

Part - time work by legislators has long been a focus of federal investigators because corrupt lawmakers have used payments for ostensible part - time jobs or consulting work to mask political payoffs.

That pretty much sidelines Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the ostensible hero of the tale, while redirecting the focus to characters who never appeared in the original novel or in Tolkien's universe at all, namely the above - mentioned Orcs with a grudge against Thorin (Richard Armitage), the Dwarf who would be king.

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.

Both Barnes & Noble and Amazon have focused on porting e-reader applications onto a number of devices, including ostensible rival iPad, in a bid to increase the potential audience for their proprietary e-books.

My personal feeling is that I alway respond to painting abstractly - not paying much attention to ostensible subject matter, but instead focusing on the space, line, form, and color - the language of painting.

Despite the ostensible differences between Noguchi and Sachs — Noguchi focuses on the sublime, Sachs on social systems; Noguchi celebrates the majestic, while Sachs leans toward the satiric — «Tea Ceremony» establishes a correspondence between the artists that seems to push conventional interpretations of their work.