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.
No longer will government be our ostensible protector, regulating individual conduct to ensure that our actions do not harm others.
These were works of action, rousing and angular, even though the ostensible drama was rudimentary.
"Inglourious Basterds" is a live-action cartoon, "The Baader Meinhof Complex" an ostensible replica of reality.
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.
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.
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.
