We're never told how these two got to be Irish and Hawaiian, though that bit of information might have helped fill out the movie's ostensible theme - breaking down racial and social barriers.

Its ostensible theme is the male ballet dancer - how he masters technique, artistry, partnering and choreography, and finally how these abstract-sounding words are embodied in a specific male dancer, Mr. Schaufuss himself.

The ostensible theme of the piece is the analogy Mr. Rousseve makes but does not sustain between the loss of friends to AIDS and his grandmother's personal loss of those she loved.

Yes, that is the ostensible theme.

The ostensible theme of the Georgics is instruction in the methods of running a farm.

Although reviewers have read political intonations into the album's ostensible themes, deeming it "unashamedly prog in its ambition and dimensions", Turner is reluctant to admit to such an agenda.

And later, "Machiavelli's famous advice to the Prince seems to cover many topics, and its ostensible theme is prowess, but its gist is loyalty: its indispensability to a successful prince.

Fans debated online: Clever allusion to the absence of Syd Barrett, which was the ostensible theme of the album... or, possibly, manufacturing oversight?

The lyric reveals a narrator in denial about the title's ostensible theme.

The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to Hesiod, Shield of Heracles.