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The ostensible ease with which he makes such jumps unsettles even loyal supporters.
The poem's ostensible subjects are a typical enough roll-call of his concerns.
They have worked in the same hash house for some time before progressing to an ostensible one-night stand.
The people who are the ostensible subjects of these photographs are hauntingly absent.
There is a remarkable piece of dialogue on just this subject in Dr Faustus, although the ostensible topic is music.
It is, after all, made up of ostensible competitors who are allied for the common good.
Given that the country does not appear to have been invaded by a foreign power, what is the ostensible cause of this nationwide panic?
The ostensible cause of the conflict was a trivial argument between a public transportation driver and a passenger of different faiths.
A biography of Elvire O'Connor, the ostensible writer of this piece, is included in the program and is a tiny work of art in its own right.
The show confirmed that he is an unabashed landscape painter, regardless of his ostensible subject matter.
The ostensible reason is that he does not wish to relinquish his seat in the European parliament.
On top of that, the government's plan doesn't even achieve its ostensible goal of solvency!
For all his ostensible desire to tell the truth, when it comes to the hardest points, McNamara proves slippery.
The ostensible purpose of these escapades was to tag the animal's ear, for identification and conservation.
Its ostensible purpose was to usher in yet another Five Year Plan, this time on law and order.
The ostensible reason behind this attempt is to protect pets and wildlife from these so called cruel traps.
The safety team's ostensible goal was, if possible, to manage the project to a safe and successful conclusion.
As is so often the case with this Prime Minister, he was talking as much about himself as he was about his ostensible subject.
There is simply no money in the till to fund rickety new programs that will quickly outgrow their ostensible resource base.
The ostensible aim of autognosis was emotional abreaction rather than a thorough breakdown of the content of memory.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The ostensible object of his journey was to visit the sacred chorten at Khatmandu and the shrines of Benares.
Up to the very end the Young Turk leaders hoped to hold the real, if not the ostensible, control in Constantinople.
The ostensible reason for the divorce was a precontract between Anne and Francis of Lorraine.
But, while he was making this ostensible sacrifice to general considerations, Magua never lost sight of his individual motives.
It was bewilderingly full of objects that had no ostensible purpose.
Should not you write him an ostensible letter on the subject?
An ostensible pretext is never wanting to those who are resolved on war.
Not that he failed to secure himself by some ostensible precautions.
He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling.
I own that your question embarrasses me, Valentine, for I cannot say that the count has rendered me any ostensible service.
Its ostensible purpose was to complain of the picture postcards.
The ostensible cause of her removal was to make room for other prisoners.
On his deathbed Driscoll set Roxy free and delivered his idolized ostensible son solemnly into the keeping of his brother, the judge, and his wife.
Whether or not such an investigation serves any practical purpose in the murkily unfolding circumstances, the ostensible even-handedness of the approach is interesting.
But the reasons for this are fallaciously served when we unquestioningly accept the ostensible notion of male chauvinism as its singular de facto cause.
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