Sentence examples for To ostensible from inspiring English sources

Even to ostensible friends, like Alfred Kazin, she conducted herself in conversation "as if she were standing up alone in a foreign land and in a foreign tongue against powerful forces of error".

On the other hand, by reducing the characters' traits to ostensible essentials and lending them as few particulars as possible, she renders them blanks to be filled in not by the movie's action but by the actors themselves.

This story came to my attention after it made the jump to ostensible outlets for actual news, like a country music radio station in Canada.

This combination of claims to ostensible moral and civil superiority and the now decades long U.S. and Israeli capacity to remain beyond the reach of international law has left the human rights community's looking for legal alternatives.

In an apparent effort to build ostensible ties to the church, Mr. Follieri also met with clergy and traveled with a monsignor.

The show seemed in no real hurry to get to the ostensible meat of its main story: rescuing Sir Malcolm's daughter Mina from the clutches of Dracula.

It's understandable, given Macdonald's adherence to Marxism, that he would have been less sensitive to movies' aesthetics than to their ostensible politics.

But there clearly appears to be a floor to his ostensible "toxicity".

The failure to bring us closer to this ostensible anchoring figure leaves a gray hole at the film's center.

For decades I'd tried to put as much distance between myself and Judaism as possible, and the idea that I was supposed to feel some connection to my ostensible homeland seemed ridiculous.

While the stands bulged, the sentiments belonged as much to the visitors as to the ostensible home team -a second wife whose husband persisted in mooning about the ex who did him wrong.