Sentence examples for ostensible theme from inspiring English sources

But though influence is the ostensible theme, this is no dry art-historical exercise.

Its ostensible theme was the aftermath of the abolition of hanging in 1965.

The night's ostensible theme was revisiting the 1980s, perhaps because the Rainforest Fund was started in 1989.

The ostensible theme of the Chelsea show, the making of the 1955 film "Rebel Without a Cause," is specific.

O.K., so nobody goes to Cirque du Soleil for the plot, or for a coherent exploration of any ostensible theme.

That's what Daniel Kitson's Mouse is about, and that's the ostensible theme of Kettering standup James Acaster's latest show, Reset.

All of her writings, whatever their ostensible themes, are essentially self-portraits.

He has often described "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" from 1989, probably his best-known movie and one that shocked audiences at the time, as being much more about color than about its ostensible themes of sex, death and cannibalism.

Cuomo has trouble distinguishing a poem's ostensible subject, like the violence in "A Far Cry From Africa," from its theme, Walcott's self-division as a child of both Africa and empire, with the blood of both in his veins.

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

Speaking of which, be warned: there's a graphic scene of an abortion near the end that's capped with a ludicrously intact fetus, a scene that speaks more to Mr. Noé's debt to Stanley Kubrick and the star child in "2001" than to the ostensible spiritual themes in "Enter the Void".