Sentence examples for is not ostensible from inspiring English sources

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She thinks that questions of what is or is not ostensible belong as much in the talks you have with students as in the middle of a statute.

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At stake, he argues, is not the ostensible sharing of a person's video viewing history, but rather the larger issue of meaningful consent.

This documentary by Gabriela Cowperthwaite is as horribly gripping as a serial-killer thriller, though the real villain is not the ostensible culprit, but its human captors.

But who exactly produces the responsive laughter is here critical: when the laugh producer is not the ostensible recipient of the prior, laughable turn, the laughter produced is heard both to disaffiliate from that prior but in so doing, to affiliate with its recipient.

And it is at this moment that we should realise that the message of the book is not only the ostensible one – that pity is an emotion that can cause great ruin – but also that we must not judge things by appearances.

But the emotional focus of the show is not on its ostensible main character, but on the unglamorous Eric, and much of the action is driven by the nudgey, transparently two-faced Ari.

It is not altogether afraid of ostensible illogicalities.

There remains a critical (and I mean that in both senses of the word) part of Jon Stewart that is not part of the ostensible "act," a part of him scrutinizing himself from the sidelines.

Its ostensible aim is not to name and shame the suspects but to find out what went wrong with the police investigation and so avoid similar failures in the future.

But it is not the only or even the ostensible reason why Olson's nomination continues to be held up by Democrats on the judiciary committee.

As the rubble from the protests was cleared away this week and La Paz returned to normal, the question facing Mr Mesa was whether or not he could put his country back together again.His task is not made any easier by the ostensible causes of the protests.

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