Sentence examples for ostensible error from inspiring English sources

The poem, tempting us to correct an ostensible error, leads us to make our own error; only when we go back and correct our correction does the poem's subtle play of one and many, past and future, presence and absence, become clear.

These conditions attracted decision errors, pressures, and other ostensible issues which led to deliberate and unintended violations.

The first, or 2am draft, is written in a tone of light-hearted, stinging, supercilious irony: "Much though I enjoyed Mr X's lively cabaret turn, of which my book was the ostensible subject, I did think that I might correct a few of the more egregious errors he made in the course of his caperings…".

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

This is how it works today: In an ostensible hunt for voter fraud, a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records for the slightest misspelling or address error.

Even to ostensible friends, like Alfred Kazin, she conducted herself in conversation "as if she were standing up alone in a foreign land and in a foreign tongue against powerful forces of error".

His ostensible mandate was reform.