This was done with the ostensible intent of adding credibility to answers. Brinkmanship is the ostensible escalation of threats to achieve one's aims. Without any ostensible heir, Cosimo contemplated restoring the Republic of Florence. The compulsion, however, was more ostensible than real. To some extent, ownership discourages transactions for the risk of ostensible wealth. Yigal Sarna referred to the incident as ostensible evidence he showed poor judgement. Both were viewed, compared with their predecessors, as ostensible conservatives. Difficult vocabulary words such as "ostensible" and "presaged" were eliminated, as was slang. His sermons were riddled with ostensible anti-Semitism, misogyny, and homophobia. The rest of the humour in this ostensible British farce is on a similar level. Urban renewal efforts undertaken for ostensible improvements had adversely affected the center of their neighborhood. The ostensible reason was to see singer Frank Sinatra perform. Various explanations of this ostensible fine-tuning have been proposed. The study began when Fein and Spencer gave participants an ostensible test of intelligence. Home's fame grew, fuelled by his ostensible feats of levitation.