Sentence examples for ostensibly abstract from inspiring English sources

Dalbavie's music is ostensibly abstract, yet it had a transparent, elemental quality that seemed to relate to air, breath and wind, perhaps a deliberate conceit given the nature of the flute.

Ostensibly abstract, Hollowell's paintings draw from a growing lexicon of forms and reference everything from the vagina to architectural forms.

Everything is up in the air (so to speak, for this is ostensibly an abstract work) as the blue discs arc across the brilliant red canvas.

By Peter Schjeldahl A show of drawings by Philip Guston at the Morgan Library and Museum packs a punch as ostensibly rough and actually exquisite as any one of the renegade Abstract Expressionist's late, cartoonish images: slovenly still-lifes, geeky characters, chiliastic floods.

It is, ostensibly, an exhibition about painting, and in particular the work of the abstract expressionists and their allies.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.

His teammates, ostensibly.

Ostensibly it was a return to guitar-driven rock after a pair of keyboard-heavy releases, "Kid A" and "Amnesiac," that bent toward the ambient and abstract.

The commission is ostensibly independent.

I'm ostensibly an expert.

That, ostensibly, was the end.