Sentence examples for ostensible lack from inspiring English sources

Romney has made the ostensible lack of an Obama agenda the heart of his closing argument.

Nevertheless, this ostensible lack of interest in actually eating food is counterbalanced by Diner's bighearted attitude toward immigrants and their struggles that, along with the rich anecdotal material, may inspire a pang of regret when you're finished.

Her work as a fork-lift operator and a welder is a tossed-off line of dialogue; her interests are undefined; her ostensible lack of refinement is merely a matter of her loud voice and salty vocabulary; her relationships are utterly vague, as is her wider network of interactions, of friends and relatives and colleagues and rivals.

However, Fægri rejected the solanoid flower type for some of the Halgania species due to a contracted inflorescence, a funnel-shaped corolla or an ostensible lack of a female stage.

"The ostensible lack of drama throughout the week-long session may disappoint sensation seekers," China Daily said in an editorial on Thursday before the new Standing Committee line-up was announced.

Though many surveys of language testing practice have been conducted, very few of them, as we mentioned earlier, are focusing on the test developers or the examination boards probably because of data inaccessibility or the ostensible lack of scientific rigor in such studies (known as 'investigative journalism', see Alderson, 2011).

With Romney using every campaign stop to reiterate his intention to declare China a currency manipulator, the Global Times pointed to an ostensible consensus that his "arrogant comments lack basic common sense".

Who wouldn't want to go from the ostensible dumb grid to a smart one?

Rhodes-Pitts's ostensible discretion can feel like a cop-out — a failure of courage, or lack of moxie, even.

Michelangelo, when charged with the lack of portrait-like resemblance in his Medici capitani to their ostensible models, reputably replied that no one in the future would know what they actually looked like.

The ostensible reason — get this!