The ostensible purpose of this sentence at this point, as I take it, in Milton's argument is to explain the importance of censorship; but surely this sentence has an entirely different effect on us as readers, a different effect than the syntax or the logic of this sentence may demand.
Convenience trumps security every time, even for ostensible IT experts.
Address the two or three biggest, with a sentence or two about each one's ostensible competitive advantage.
10 Such improvement in shortening the diagnostic time is invaluable, particularly given these tests' ostensible accuracy.
Great stuff, right?' While Franzen has, since the 2001 publication of The Corrections, been hailed for his extraordinary sentences and ability to capture the American zeitgeist, as well as reviled for ostensible arrogance and sexism (more on those in a bit), his fiction had never struck me as overtly self-referential.
But while the ostensible focus of his Polaroids is the city, their secret theme is time.
Or, more accurately, we were born knowing a certain principle of UG (the 'Principle of Structure Dependence'), which tells us that rules like H1 are not worth pursuing, their ostensible 'simplicity' notwithstanding, and that we should always prefer rules, like H2, which are stated in terms of sentences' structural properties.
SCORECARD -- Although the ostensible subject of the advertisement is campaign finance reform, it really is about Mrs. Clinton's credibility, and thus, the crucial sentence in this ad is the last one.
The ostensible subject of the case was whether the United States could hold "sexually dangerous" persons in custody beyond the length of their prison sentences.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
