What happened to the doctor on United Express Flight 3411 ostensibly feels especially alarming because it could so easily happen to you who among us has not been an overbooked flight that didn't allow everyone who had purchased a ticket their rightful seat?
We stick with our friends for an entanglement of reasons, and three new picture books, while ostensibly feel-good tales about making friends, turn out to be much closer to the complicated and murky truth than one might guess from their cheery covers.
Ostensibly, we should feel good about the choice we've made to take a yoga class and about the positive thinking we're doing now that we're here.
Since its opening, in 2008, the West Village music club (Le) Poisson Rouge has boldly redefined the New York concert experience, replacing the ostensibly stuffy feel of a mainline classical venue with a relaxed atmosphere, often with table seating, more akin to that of a jazz event.
And Mr. Crystal has a way of making even the ostensibly exotic feel as wholesome as apple blintzes (2 20).
But, like the women's movement, great leadership can make the ostensibly impossible feel attainable.
In western societies, people are ostensibly free, but they feel constrained by the unpredictability of events.
A defiant North Korea has retreated into its shell, ostensibly because it feels insulted, but more probably because America has insisted, rightly, that any serious dialogue between the two countries would need to tackle a more extensive list of issues than missile proliferation alone.
One man whose wife works abroad as a domestic servant drinks up most of her repatriated profits, ostensibly because he feels emasculated by his wife's breadwinner role but possibly because the wife and the ambient society tolerate rampant alcohol abuse.
