Seated in the press box, the official scorer is surrounded by writers and broadcasters who are ostensibly neutral, and the scorer is less likely to be unduly influenced by the players, the coaches, and the crowd.
But the quest for grace that spurred Evelyn Waugh is less captivating to viewers than the nostalgia for a lost, ostensibly better world.
Similarly, his persecutor Elohim – christened with the Hebrew name for God – is less than saintly, raising up religious fervour to torment and hunt what is ostensibly a child.
In an interview, one of them, Islam Lotfy, argued that the strictly religious kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where the Koran is ostensibly the constitution, was less Islamist than Turkey.
"His contribution to the training of the police and law enforcement people in Iraq, which was ostensibly why he was there, was less than successful".
Comparing the mitochondrial sequences from ostensibly Neanderthal DNA libraries with those of modern humans produced a reassuring result: the contamination rate was less than 1%.
We hypothesized that, if men are less fully reliant on the praxis system than women, then their performance should be more adversely affected by the removal of vision on tasks that are ostensibly praxic.
In Pale Fire, Charles Kinbote is ostensibly an academic ostensibly commentating on what is ostensibly his best friend's poem.
Not One Less is ostensibly about China's problem with the drop-out rate in country schools.
It was an articulation of religious belief that was as plainspoken as it was compelling, and it was also the sort of reflective discussion you're unlikely to hear anywhere these days, much less on what is ostensibly a comedy show. .
