Sentence examples for ostensible themes from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The show's ostensible theme might be "doubt", but its underlying one is that engagement and inquiry are always favourable to detachment and cynicism.

The ostensible theme of the event was apprenticeships, so the PM was introduced by Karren Brady, who works on a television programme about pretend apprentices.

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

Rank's ostensible theme is globalization, presented as an overpopulated but not unpleasant farce, in which canned bamboo shoots and Heinz baked beans are culinary co-equals, and Google, Chanel, and Mickey Mouse assume the stature of household gods.