Sentence examples for its ostensible from inspiring English sources

One of the striking things about The Violet Hour is the frequency with which it veers from its ostensible subject.

It focuses attention as much on how we experience projected moving imagery and puzzle together narrative in our own minds as it does on its ostensible subject matter.

A lot of the appeal of the Nordic model comes from its ostensible resilience: it's supposed to be able to provide for anyone who comes to it.

As ever, this is a film about other films as much as it is about its ostensible subject – vigilante Jewish Nazi hunters during the latter part of the Second World War.

Ultimately, this buoyant picture serves its ostensible purpose: It makes you want to run out and catch a production of "American Idiot".

Despite its ostensible countercultural vibe, it lives up to its title — it really is, in its construction and its affect, a superhero movie in live-action form.

It has survived even as its ostensible reason for being — securing the surefire sellouts provided by the most famous opera singers — has faded.

Given that, it would much prefer to keep America as its ostensible ally, not a declared enemy.

While its ostensible goal is to defend U.S. cyber interests, it has also developed an offensive cyberwarfare capability to be deployed against other nations.

Pakistan would much prefer to keep America as its ostensible ally, rather than a declared enemy.

Its ostensible purpose was to eliminate Palestinian strongholds in southern Lebanon.