Sentence examples for ostensible topic from inspiring English sources

Often the degree to which art calls attention to itself as art is inversely related to its ability to illuminate the ostensible topic.

The ostensible topic was the 50 years of Star Trek and the continued relevance of Gene Roddenberry's hopeful vision for the future of humanity.

The ostensible topic of "My Name Is Red" is the threatened Westernization of Ottoman pictorial art, an offshoot, protected by Sultan Murat III (r. 1574-95), of the Persian tradition of miniature painting.

Usually this occurs by the tenth comment, regardless of the ostensible topic of the piece in question.

Tyson's zeal for knowledge is intoxicating and irresistible, even if it means less time for the ostensible topic of the conversation — his starring role in the documentary series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey," premiering on Fox and National Geographic in March.

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

At times that research took him far afield of his ostensible subject.

As we ponder those reverberations emanating from today's milestone, we might productively consider the words of the ostensible expert on that very topic, Rudyard Kipling, whose most famous poem is entitled, simply- "IF:".

But while the ostensible focus of his Polaroids is the city, their secret theme is time.

The ostensible reason — get this!

At least, ostensible ones.