Sentence examples for ostensible reality from inspiring English sources

The filmmakers mistake imagination and fantasy for willful obfuscations of something called, with a quasi-religious intonation, "reality" — and in these films, the ostensible "reality" is rendered doubly "real" because of their basis in the filmmakers' experience or in history.

The ostensible reality of such raw footage dispels any doubts or questions observers may have, and when it is streamed a thousand times on the news each night, it simply becomes wallpaper.

Television, aiming to portray the ostensible realities of non-vampire adolescence, has operated in the extremes lately, imagining sex as the average 15-year-old's one and only preoccupation, as if there were no such thing as sample sales or Advanced Placement tests.

"Inglourious Basterds" is a live-action cartoon, "The Baader Meinhof Complex" an ostensible replica of reality.

Don Quixote has just defended the reality of ostensible fiction by arguing from the existence of relics.

Their reality, courtesy of ostensible reform allies in the Bush Administration, was persecution.

In reality, there were no co-players; the ostensible co-players' behavior was pre-programmed.

Their ostensible leader – by action if not name – was "Sabu", in reality New York-based Hector Xavier Monsegur, a Puerto Rican freelance programmer.

The smartest reality-show contestants understand that the show's ostensible prize isn't nearly as valuable as the exposure along the way, the personal branding, the chance, perhaps, even to land on "The Surreal Life".

These poems subsume their ostensible subject into a philosophical meditation on the decay of the world.

The ostensible objectivity of Reichardt's meticulous naturalism is a device that she uses to portray a sliver of physical reality as the whole truth; her rejection of psychology as well as of cultural context plays false and reeks of demagogy.