ostensible

Her growth did not seem to make an ostensible difference to any one.

Why is an ostensible news program willing to do these things?

In other words, the ostensible stars do not have it.

But no one ever goes to watch these two men for the ostensible content of their work.

The ostensible reason is to create a level playing field for the rural students.

The ostensible subject was the struggle for human rights in China.

Each landed and went about his ostensible business, interesting himself not at all in any of the others.

She had begun seeing me - or I her - without their ostensible knowledge.

So how should we respond to the ostensible compliment in question?

The ostensible subject matter of this book is violence and disorder.

This, although on a lesser scale, is also an ostensible risk.

"A special enactment for some ostensible reason, and the thing is done."

This last was the ostensible cause of Iran's air raid.

The ostensible reason for the action was the quality of food served to inmates.

For example, is the ostensible content of the message meaningful?

So the case turned on authority, actual, apparent or ostensible.

Sure, they hoped to discourage me, but that was only the ostensible reason.

There's an immediate problem with this ostensible strategy, however: It has not worked.

The ostensible purpose of joining together is to meet the Japanese challenge.

Or this is the ostensible reason that she does.

The pretense was that whatever their ostensible subject matter, they were really about art, culture, class.

You might bring me an ostensible note from Father.

The second film bears little resemblance to its ostensible source.

Their ostensible object is to attract the woman and get a free meal.

So that in yet another way this affair had become a disaster, despite their ostensible success.