Sentence examples for ostensibly around from inspiring English sources

At times critically dismissed as "women's television," shows organized ostensibly around female friendships provide culture with critical perspectives and insights into women's experiences, possess the power to drive social trends (Cosmo, anyone?) and most importantly, communicate the sentiment that these relationships are crucial for women's well-being.

The dispute ostensibly revolves around parking and the convenience of the paying public.

While Bank of America is ostensibly devoting around $7bn of the money to consumers, homeowners will actually see very little money or help.

"Gone Tomorrow" ostensibly revolves around this magnum opus, but it hardly matters what Canaris has been squirreling away; that appears to be Mr. Kluge's point.

Those hit comedies ostensibly revolve around immature men, but they are even more distinctive for their funny, uncommon female characters, notably Amy on "Big Bang," played by Mayim Bialik.

In her first fringe outing, ostensibly themed around her own funeral, she doesn't quite sustain that steamroller force: she's out of breath for much of its second half.

Like East European comedies of the 1960's, this picture is ostensibly built around an event -- here it's the approaching arrival of President Bill Clinton and the attendant storm of activity, official and otherwise.

Although many of Perry's plots ostensibly revolve around the idea of female self-actualization, his heroines, instead of finding themselves, are bullied by Madea into a kind of social conformity that has little to do with whatever character traits they exhibit.

The new Congress that had just been sworn in that January 1971 could have found it useful to make Nixon look like a failure, with a presidential election ostensibly lurking around the corner (though two years back then were far longer in politics than they are now).

The new series of the show can be thought of as Dallas: The Next Generation, as it ostensibly centres around the still-feuding offspring of the original Ewings: John Ross Junior, who is drilling for oil on the hallowed turf of Southfork itself; Bobby and Pam's adopted son, Christopher, a fan of renewable energy and of not drilling for any oil anywhere; and of course their wives.

The FFVII house, at its root, was a place ostensibly built around a common dream.