While his ostensible subject is his book, "I use that as a springboard to talk about apartheid in human terms," he said.

No matter the ostensible subject of a portrait, the real subject is Warhol himself.

These passages are not revealing in themselves and add little to our understanding of the book's ostensible subject.

But intentionally or not, their work is likely to leave viewers thinking more about painting than about the paintings' ostensible subjects.

The ostensible subject doesn't matter: the one thing that's guaranteed is that below the line someone will ask: "What about the British?

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

Often the topics explored may be quite different from the ostensible main subject or happening in the picture.

The poem's ostensible subject is a deer hunt on a moonlit night.

This is the main and important thing to know about his book, even though its ostensible subject is pianos.

Contrary to her assertion, the "ostensible subject" here is me.