Sentence examples for or ostensibly from inspiring English sources
Gathering hundreds of Picassos along with far-flung trophies that inspired or ostensibly inspired him, the whole ensemble of pictures was dazzling and fatuous.
His output was formally varied the main categories were long historical or ostensibly historical narratives, Socratic texts, and short technical, biographical, or political treatises but these had common features, as enumerated below.
If a show like this were made today, it might be self-consciously or ostensibly feminist — a celebration of fortitude and athleticism, like Roller Derby or "American Ninja Warrior".
One man, often the oldest or ostensibly the wisest, declares or does something, setting up the joke or establishing the pattern; the second queries, challenges or contradicts him, while also taking the theme on; and the third, typically the youngest (littlest, poorest, last), disrupts the pattern and trumps them all.
Before O'Neill addressed that experience directly in his late masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night," which was published posthumously in 1956, he produced a number of narratives about other types of male outsiders, the most interesting and vexing of whom are black, or ostensibly black.
After these explanations, will Secretary Rumsfeld -- when seemingly taken aback or ostensibly outraged by a question, and with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs sternly at his side -- continue to let off steam with the use of his quaint, old-fashioned, grandmotherly goodness gracious!? Son of a gun!
But, in speaking to Chinese of many backgrounds, it grows plain that the real fear is not becoming the United States or Britain, but rather a Nigeria or India or Iraq: ostensibly free societies whose chaos and violence can limit the practical usefulness of that freedom.
They range from Peter Guralnick's Lost Highway to Vladimir Jankélévitch's Music and the Ineffable, but to be honest a lot of the writing about sound that has made me think in a different way has been either very obscure – something like Robert Hans van Gulik's The Lore of the Chinese Lute, for instance – or not ostensibly about listening or music at all.
Given that most of the detainees were originally held under American "administrative detention" — without charge or representation, ostensibly on suspicion of insurgent or terrorist links — it is perhaps not surprising that American officials are working to retain as much say as possible.
The two men circle each other for an hour or so, ostensibly competing for the affections of Corrine Calvet as an extravagantly gowned "entertainer," though the real sexual energy is between them.
The local CBS station in Dallas/Fort Worth reported that "four or five [US Border Patrol] agents have tested positive" for illnesses such as chicken pox or tuberculosis, ostensibly contracted at their border posts.
