Sentence examples for ostensible meaning from inspiring English sources

The one that comes when ideas are ascribed to a term that range far beyond its ostensible meaning.

Since the first version came out 11 years ago, the ostensible meaning of Funny Games has been extensively rehearsed.

The trick is to forget about the ostensible meaning (there is none) and deconstruct the clue into its individual parts: the definition, one or two words at either end of the clue that act like a regular crossword clue, and the "directions," all the other words that either help you find your way or send you off track.

Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

Despite all the thought and hard work that go into them, definitions, surprisingly, turn out to be ill suited for many of the tasks they have been set to — including their ostensible purpose of telling you the meaning of a word.

In these conditions, wearing an ostensible religious sign has one of many possible meanings, or all of them: it may mean Muslim women expressing solidarity with people of the same racial group; it may mean an attempt to escape that condition by taking refuge in the spirituality that religion offers them; it may be an unspoken way of showing defiance towards the establishment.

He has been popular, too, because of his tough line on "security" issues, meaning questions of crime and public safety — his willingness to expel illegal-immigrant Roma was the ostensible subject of our interview last fall.

When in midlife Levinas steeped himself in Jewish learning, he was both probing the meaning of Jewish identity in the Galut (Hebrew: "Exile"), or Jewish Diaspora, and searching for remedies for the ostensible deficiencies of mainstream Western philosophy, with its orientation toward theoretical reason and absolute certainty.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.

His ostensible mandate was reform.