Sentences with phrase «ostensible reason for»

That finding is not enough for an article, and so it has been paraded out as the ostensible reason for a write up whose larger purpose is to further a political agenda.

On the other hand, using that device to introduce your own opinions about climate sensitivity unrelated to a mislabeled table struck me the same way it struck David Wojick — as a means to promote your views publicly rather than to communicate a concern about the ostensible reason for your letter.

When he had a larger network of friends — that period, about ten years ago, when everybody seemed to be between marriages — our ostensible reason for going somewhere would often be that we were on a mercy mission to cheer up so - and - so.

The ostensible reason for the bust - up is her fling with a dull office worker (Kevin Bacon), but mainly she just seems tired, confused, upset — in other words, according to the rules of this remarriage genre, she is likely to come back to Cal once she figures things out.

The ostensible reason for her journey is to discover who her real father is - she assumes he is residing at the villa - and she also hopes to rekindle a relationship with a young man she met four years earlier.

But neither Harary nor Malpass would endorse all 10 points of Cuomo's Women's Equality Agenda, the ostensible reason for the party's existence — an agenda that would codify the right to obtain an abortion, a host of anti-housing discrimination statutes and the right of attorneys to recover fees in employment, credit and lending cases.

It is worth remembering that behind our ostensible reasons for believing or not believing a thing there are often unconscious reasons which go very deep.

Theological disagreement has been one of the ostensible reasons for division in the church in centuries past — perhaps even a primary reason.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Early on in Jack and Jill, Mexican television star Eugenio Derbez, playing Sandler's landscaper, carries around an unopened bottle of Coca - Cola for no reason whatsoever, but that's only the tip of the iceberg in a movie that's just as much about commercials and product placement as it is about its ostensible, sibling - conflict premise.

The episode (which the Mapplethorpe Foundation, a sponsor of the show, protested), evoked the Corcoran's cancellation of «The Perfect Moment back» in 1989 for the same ostensible reason.

Western governments participated for a complex of reasons; the genuine idealism and boredom of some chimed with the cynical ambition of others; there was unity of ostensible purpose along with disunity of interests (think EU squabbles and manipulation of carbon price); there was a massive investment of resources to unclear goals; and much of the action defeated the very purpose (sack of Christian Constantinople by Crusaders).