Sentence examples for ostensible lack of 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).

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 Garden's ostensible partners, a joint venture of Stephen M. Ross of the Related Companies and Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust, reacted diplomatically, saying they understood the Garden's frustration with the lack of progress.

Lack of effort, lack of concentration".

He blames a lack of "headspace" in a government concentrating on another deeply divisive issue for the Conservative party, the EU referendum, and thinks that the ostensible reason for the latest delay – the air quality consultation – will conclude, as the airports commission did, that the airport can expand within legal pollution limits.