The testosterone boils in "Tom Ryan...," and while such displays are ostensibly well intended, the overall effect feels mean spirited, leaving an aftertaste most acrid.
Although promoters of scans cite a number of positive results -- patients found, for example, to have a symptomless kidney cancer -- no one has yet published any study to document the value and safety of the scans for ostensibly well people.
Detroiters who are worried about ceding local power to Michigan's Republican governor shouldn't forget the ways in which power has already been ceded to an unelected oligarchy, whose members might, no matter how ostensibly well intentioned, possess questionable ideas about urban renewal.
That, advocates argue, has hurt ostensibly well-meaning nations.
Even at a bank as ostensibly well-run as JPMorgan, the incentives still exist for giant, risky bets to be made that can go very wrong.
This nostalgia comes to the fore, around year's end, with the lists — a nostalgia for professionalism, for the ostensibly well-made film, for the film that flaunts a political opinion or a literary pedigree.
An ostensibly well-designed version of such a system was implemented some years ago in New Zealand, but recent research has shown that, while this did succeed in lowering social segregation at first, the improvement was only temporary.
Still, the squabbling over fuel on cold winter days has tended to bring out an ill temper in European officials that belies the ostensibly well-regulated, highly detailed contracts that are supposed to determine who will stay warm, and at what price, in the dead of winter.
The attacks, on July 7 , 2005 remain the country's worst terrorist incident, and raised traumatic questions about how ostensibly well-integrated young Muslim men — the leader of the bombers, Mohammad Sidique Khan, worked in a primary school — could become suicide bombers.
Presumably, the playwright is crying out against the hollow values of a youth-crazed culture and charting its damaging effects on a fragile 16-year-old -- and on all the ostensibly well-meaning grown-ups who notice her in all the wrong ways.
But the legitimizing of tools to block arbitrary web addresses or snoop on and redirect ordinary traffic, however effective or ostensibly well-administrated they are, simply is not something anyone who supports a free and open web can allow.
