"Ostensible" is a word in ENGLISH
Capable of being shown; proper or intended to be shown.
Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed;
apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible
reason, motive, or aim.
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
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