Sentence examples for ostensible virtues from inspiring English sources
H. M. Goldberg Brookfield, Conn., Dec. 18, 2008 To the Editor: I didn't think it was possible for anyone, with the current state of the economy, to still extol the ostensible virtues of laissez-faire economics.
What Scott praises is, in effect, granola cinema, abstemious films that are made to look good for you but are no less sweetened than mass-market products, that cut off a wide range of aesthetic possibilities and experiences on ostensible grounds of virtue.
The ostensible subject of "Gladiator," set in second-century Rome, is the power of virtue, as embodied by a noble general of humble origins, Maximus (Russell Crowe), who is marked for execution by the aged Emperor Marcus Aurelius's viperish son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), after Aurelius makes the general his heir apparent.
I don't think there's any special virtue to patience in the kitchen, so I'm not here to lecture on the ostensible merits of slow cooking over fast food.
The ostensible reason — get this!
At least, ostensible ones.
His ostensible mandate was reform.
That was his virtue of virtues.
Escapism has its virtues.
