Sentence examples for ostensible action from inspiring English sources
The previous day's feature, the Home Run Derby, had been, to my mind, a tedious affair, so thoroughly dominated by commercial breaks and sideshows — Counting Crows performed in center field — that you could have confused its ostensible action for the batting practice we were now watching: sporadic bursts of long fly balls amid a scene of milling around.
— and if the private equity firms did this, I suspect that Clear Channel would find some ostensible tort action to bring against the firms to claw back some of this money.
Their ostensible leader – by action if not name – was "Sabu", in reality New York-based Hector Xavier Monsegur, a Puerto Rican freelance programmer.
Sometimes the letters are almost love letters to a woman; sometimes they address the specific food items that can be bought at a Wendy's; sometimes they detail the ostensible writer's daily actions like watching porn or his frequent visits to Wendy's; and sometimes they fuse intense references to sex and body parts with the surface actions that take place in Wendy's.
Catholicism was the state religion, and many revolutionary principles received ostensible sanction.
These were works of action, rousing and angular, even though the ostensible drama was rudimentary.
Coming off the hard-boiled comedy "Roxie Hart" (later the basis of the musical "Chicago"), Wellman loads his film with enough urban cynicism, sly sexual banter and showbiz slang to keep the action lively and colorful, even as the ostensible plot recedes into the background.
"Inglourious Basterds" is a live-action cartoon, "The Baader Meinhof Complex" an ostensible replica of reality.
No longer will government be our ostensible protector, regulating individual conduct to ensure that our actions do not harm others.
Anonymous is like a Greek chorus, commenting on the unfolding action of a drama of awful foolishness between ostensible gods and mortals.
Genre painting is by definition about life, yet in this ostensible genre painting life has become static, and the time of the action seems an endless monotony, as the redundancy of its title suggests.
