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This kid-gloves treatment reflects our ostensible reluctance to involve ourselves in costly overseas conflicts, and our ostensible respect for the national sovereignty of the foreign countries.
The ostensible truth multiplier 1,000 percent (from George McGovern's 1972 avowal of support for his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, whom he claimed to support "1,000 percent" and then summarily dropped from the ticket) is now an ironic synonym for "don't bet on it" or even "not on your life."
Forman and his colleagues present the Andy Kaufman mystery as if they thought it was utterly impenetrable" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), or as Janet Maslin writes in the New York Times , "what is missing here, though it might have been the first thing expected from an ostensible film biography, is an answer to the simplest question: Who was Andy Kaufman, and how did he get that way?"
I did not think a book could be any worse than High Crimes . Then I encountered Jerome Levin's--whoops, I mean, Dr. Jerome Levin's-- The Clinton Syndrome . Psychotherapist Levin's ostensible purpose is to use Clinton's problems to bring attention to sex addiction.
The proprietorial use of the adjective Tasmanian — found in compounds like Tasmanian kingfish, Tasmanian pink-eye (a potato), Tasmanian scallop (the shellfish, not, as in New South Wales, a slice of fried potato), and Tasmanian red (an apple)—plays on an ostensible difference in the island produce, as does the much more audacious hijacking of Atlantic in Tasmanian Atlantic salmon (farmed Tasmanian salmon).
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