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The ostensible golden age of the studios paralleled the darkest days of the thirties.

We examined a corollary hypothesis that obesity and level of chronic physical inactivity are the true causes for this ostensible effect of aging on insulin resistance.

Iran does not need anywhere near that much fuel for its ostensible purpose: feeding an aging reactor in Tehran that makes medical isotopes.

The ostensible fairy-tale transformation of age into youth brings to mind Craig Lucas's emotionally vibrant use of a similar situation in "Prelude to a Kiss". Mr. Donaghy exploits the premise not just as a metaphor for the fears of loss in one relationship but as a variation on the old plot gambit in which a mysterious stranger shakes up the humdrum lives of the bored citizens of a small town.

In an age of at least ostensible government regulation, no truly massive corporate fraud scheme can be perpetrated without government complicity, discernable as either a bewildering set of decisions or inexplicable complacency.

I was denied entrance to an upperclass biology class taught by an aging professor for no ostensible reason, until the registrar assured him that his was the only course which had room to enroll me.

You inspired me, from a young age, not to rest in the ostensible comfort of myth and superstition, but to explore the universe in which I reside with a questioning eye.

He also interviews Sean Michael, Didion's step-grandson (the adult son of her daughter Quintana's husband), who sheds some light on Quintana's death at age 39, which despite being the ostensible subject of Didion's book "Blue Nights" remains hard to figure.

Some authors also still support the use of age-based formulas because of their ostensible simplicity, because they require no equipment to function and they allow advanced preparation if emergency services personnel communicate a child's age during transport to hospital [35].

After Chilperic's death in 584, Childebert, now of age, purged the Austrasian nobility and, in ostensible alliance with the Byzantine emperor, embarked on a series of unsuccessful but not unprofitable campaigns against the Lombards of Italy.

The ostensible lure of the four-concert series the conductor Ivan Fischer presented with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center was the chance to hear all nine Beethoven symphonies performed in close proximity by two exemplary ensembles representing different traditions: the period-instrument band and the modern orchestra.

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