Sentences with phrase «which ostensible»

(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.

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.

Not long after, someone will comment how, as an art installation, it's a withering indictment of junk culture, in response to which our ostensible heroine Susan (Amy Adams) intones, «Junk.

Not exact matches

Banks and all forms of businesses are ostensible to check the SDN list to safeguard they do not yield financial services to people, organizations, and governments which the U.S. has designated as «blocked» due to impasse in terrorism, chief proliferation, kleptocracy, tellurian rights violations, and other crimes.

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.

The ostensible purpose seems to be to get two current parents appointed as Foundation governors, something which the diocese say they have offered in private negotiations.

The issue of freedom is particularly acute with respect to liberal education, the ostensible function of which is to fulfill the ideal of liberty.

The impact of these facts upon our minds, with the resultant meaning they bear for us, depends upon our response to more fundamental realities which are intermingled with the ostensible factors (of politics, economics and the rest) but are never fully covered by them.

From this perspective it appears that the ostensible opposition of these dualities is underlain by a more fundamental unity, the manifestation of which is to be found precisely in the contrast provided by duality.

In our present situation, therefore, we have this ground of hope: that over and above all the ostensible factors at work there is an overruling factor which is the Creative goodwill of God; and to this we can not assign any necessary limits.

I sat there on the bed for a while, and then I did seek out my brother and apologize to him, and we all sat down quietly for lunch, and nothing else was ever said about this, until now, in this small essay; but the thought occurs to me that in a lot of ways I have been sitting on that bed ever since, pondering the way lies come so easily to our lips and spin so easily out of our ostensible control, and stab the innocent, and dilute respect, and poison love, and tear at what we so much wish to be, which is honest and gracious and reverent.

Surreal only begins to describe the NBA Draft Combine, a curious blip on the annual calendar in which the whole league gathers for two days at this West Side gym for the ostensible purpose of working out, measuring, and evaluating prospects.

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.

Which lot do you think staffs the Catholic schools, ostensible centres of the teaching of football - related sectarianism?

The result is that today we have created a dangerous pattern of milk production with these modern methods, which require pasteurization for ostensible protection from pathogens.

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 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.

Even before Obama secured the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, he was singing the praises of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which served as the ostensible basis for Spielberg's movie.

However, while Harris makes for an appropriately smart and menacing adversary, the loss of Rachel McAdams (only briefly seen this time) as Holmes's romantic foil proves to be a more sizeable step backward; while she was not the most comfortable fit in the first film, her chemistry with Downey was promising — which becomes all too painfully clear when neither Downey nor Jude Law (as trusty sidekick Dr. Watson) show much rapport at all with her ostensible replacement, Noomi Rapace as a gypsy who (platonically) joins the duo's mission.

Having out - witted the powers that be in the first Hunger Games — a TV spectacle in which children compete to the death for the entertainment of the privileged few — and survived with her ostensible romantic partner Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), deepens her rebellion here.

The opening sequences, in which Gallo's character is captured, interrogated, and tortured by American soldiers (from whom he then manages to escape), turn the ostensible political substance of the film into caricature, divesting it of weight.

This isn't a humiliation comedy, or at least not one in which we're invited to laugh at the characters as they're being humiliated merely because they're hapless saps who don't deserve abuse yet who are nevertheless subjected to it for our ostensible amusement.

Before long, Kurt is persuading Alex to pose for one of his paintings — all of which feature gigantic close - ups of puckered anuses — while Charlotte, during an ostensible booze run, demonstrates to Emily her penchant for giving happy endings at a nearby massage parlor.

That's the ostensible plot, but it is merely a skeleton on which hangs the true flesh of the story — an abundance of themes, images, ideas that ensure a personal reaction from each viewer.

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 plot has Shanté suspecting her boyfriend Keith Fenton (Morris Chestnut) of cheating, and the remainder of the film has her outlining to the audience her allegedly foolproof ten - day plan, which entails lying and all sorts of psychological manipulation, to get any man in gear.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

The point, once again, is that it is entirely appropriate to ask which values a character education program is attempting to foster, notwithstanding the ostensible lack of controversy about a list of core values.

What this system would do would be to take the ostensible cost of educating a child, including both state and local allocation, and say each child should get this amount no matter which school they attend.

In terms of size, it's nearly as big as the Range Rover Sport in terms of length, width, and height, which means it's also larger than ostensible rivals like the Audi Q5, BMW X3, or even its Jaguar F - Pace platform - mate.

That makes their lives easier, which should be the ostensible goal of politicians across the political spectrum.

Yau writes that «Gale's ostensible subject is the record of an encounter between her and someone else, whether it is a model or her own face, which she presumably uses a mirror to scrutinize.

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.

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.

Kaino uses the ostensible invisible target as a larger metaphor for the ways in which ideas on revolution can gather volume when all are headed toward the same goal.

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.

Its ostensible purpose will be to «expose Congressional staff and journalists to leading scientists and economists in the nation's capital» and demonstrate that «global warming is not a crisis and that immediate action to reduce emissions is not necessary» — which it calls the emerging consensus view of (the handful of) scientists outside the IPCC.

No, one of the ostensible virtues of a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system is that they are «market - based» solutions, which allow governments to address climate change in a flexible way, rather than imposing a top - down solution of picking winners and losers.

This touches upon the «all - affected principle» in democratic theory, which is particularly relevant in an ostensible «transnational polity» such as the EU.

«I worry we're introducing something to kids who really don't need it,» he says, «and I think that the ostensible purpose is wrong, which is to get them started young.»

Research on the decline of women's economic status following divorce (e.g., Hernandez, 1988; Laosa, 1988) has contributed legislation of not much use in addressing the «Deadbeat Dad» problem, but has encouraged a backlashing trend of misogynistic propaganda and specious «research,» in the ostensible interests of «presenting two sides of an issue» which never had a whole lot to offer on the wrong side in the first place.