Street luge may have resulted in entertaining crashes, but there weren't enough lunatics careering down asphalt slopes during the ostensible off-season to produce any noticeable improvement from one year to the next.
Taxi drivers cruised the streets with their off-duty lights illuminated but their back seats full, liberated by their ostensible off-dutiness from the obligation to pick up anyone who waved.
Atwood judges Approval Voting a remedy for such two-party voting pitfalls as the spoiler effect or the ostensible trade-off between "electability" and a wasted vote.
"Inside Llewyn Davis" and Brie Larson were two surprise winners at Monday night's Gotham Awards in New York, the ostensible kick-off of awards season.
This ostensible good news set off more criticism on the blogs, of Mr. Keaton and of the city's decision.
The disorderly and largely decentralized White Army, christened as such for their practice of smearing white ash on their bodies to repel insects, was formed (a term used graciously here) around 1991 with the ostensible purpose of fighting off cattle raids from the Dinka and Murlee.
In this one, the two '80s superstars Stallone, who plays the ostensible lead, and Schwarzenegger, the off-lead who steals the picture, are fighting against America's secret prison system, Blackwater, and blacker elements of the CIA, finding common cause with Arabs and Muslims headed by the guy whose capture of Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie gave rise to the famous powered suit.
"The ostensible benefit is you're getting off the plane quicker," he said.
It describes the state of mind a member can lapse into while describing a transgressive sexual incident, when the thrill of the memory eclipses all ostensible regret and they are essentially getting off on their own misbehaviour.
The meeting's ostensible focus was to bite off a small chunk of that problem: how to harness the large number of Haitian medical professionals abroad, not only to provide emergency medical care but also to help overhaul the country's health care system.
They're parents who are physically hyper-present but somehow psychologically M.I.A.: so caught up in the script that runs through their heads about how to "do right" by their children that they can't see when the excesses of keeping up, bulking up, getting a leg up and generally running scared send the whole enterprise of ostensible care and nurturing right off the rails.
