| It is, after all, made up of ostensible competitors who are allied for the common good. |
| The people who are the ostensible subjects of these photographs are hauntingly absent. |
| They have worked in the same hash house for some time before progressing to an ostensible one-night stand. |
| The poem's ostensible subjects are a typical enough roll-call of his concerns. |
| For all his ostensible desire to tell the truth, when it comes to the hardest points, McNamara proves slippery. |
| There is a remarkable piece of dialogue on just this subject in Dr Faustus, although the ostensible topic is music. |
