How To Use Conspicuously In A Sentence

  • Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
  • There were passages when Glasgow looked markedly the better side and played with much of the zing which was so often conspicuously absent last season.
  • Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
  • Without missing a beat, the taller man handed Dickie a beer (apparently it was not too early to drink), and began challenging his opponent to distinguish between the genuine ascetic and what he termed the conspicuously nonconsuming -poverty snob. Villa Incognito
  • Two MMC students and a cinema professor go slumming as they lend character and voice to an expressionist painting set in a conspicuously disreputable French cabaret.
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  • Laterally it graded "abruptly" into the typical cubalpine forest of the Snake Range in which spruce and limber pine were codominant and bristlecone was conspicuously absent. Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit
  • The symbolic and concrete evidence of these new patterns of consumption were the diamond-studded stickpins, gold pocketwatches, and hard cash pedestrians conspicuously paraded while traversing the streets.
  • Certainly in Paris one sees very conspicuously the absence of the love of flowers; or, rather, one may say that for the subtle and inventive children of the Ile de France the flower is artificial, and what we call flowers are merely an insipid and subordinate variety, "natural flowers," having their market in a remote and deserted corner of the city, whereas in Barcelona the busiest and central part of the city is the Rambla de las Flores. Impressions and Comments
  • A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
  • = -- Buds 1/8-1/4 inch long, bluntish to pointed, conspicuously clustered at ends of branches. Handbook of the Trees of New England
  • Intelligence did not figure. largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.
  • That is how Mohamad and I ended up in the back of a four-by-four with Alan and a Philadelphia judge named Daniel L. Rubini, roaring down the middle of Palestine Street in a two-car convoy that was painfully, conspicuously, deafeningly American. Day of Honey
  • The most important point of the entire article is tucked inconspicuously into a paragraph, making it almost unnoticeable.
  • While parts of the documentary look over- or underlit and some scenes are conspicuously shot on video and transferred to film, this is all par for the course with television documentaries and usually does not detract from viewing.
  • They like to sit and sing conspicuously on a telephone wire or the top of a hedgerow tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the chapters are inconspicuously but intentionally divided into small titled but unnumbered sections rarely longer than a page, and in each of those certain concept, idea or unresolved problem is discussed.
  • One name conspicuously absent from that short list: State Senator James Meeks. Chicago Mayor Race: James Meeks Isn't 'Consensus Candidate,' But Still Running
  • The charm - that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults - was conspicuously absent.
  • The music played in the orchestra was very beautiful; and the officer, who had behaved so politely to us in permitting the gates, on the first night of our arrival, to be opened, seated on a high stool, rose conspicuously above the other musicians, and seemed indeed the _first fiddle_. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
  • He followed her to Switzerland one summer, and all the time that he was dangling after her (a little too conspicuously, I always thought, for a Great Man), he was writing to me about his theory of vowel-combinations -- or was it his experi - ments in English hexameter? The Muse's Tragedy
  • Given that the corporation is required by law to designate an agent, and to post the agent's name conspicuously on its premises, I see it as a discourtesy when a reasonably senior person in the company refuses to provide it.
  • While the Kinshaya envoy, Patriarch Radrigi, remained conspicuously mute, the Gorn, Tholian, and Breen diplomats filled the room with a discordant olio of hisses, chirps and clicks, and electronic warbles. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
  • The conspicuously wealthy ruling party elite feels none of this. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a bit of a porcupine to the last, still shedding darts; or rather he was to the end a bit of a schoolboy, and must still throw stones, but the essential toleration that underlay his disputatiousness, and the kindness that made of him a tender sicknurse and a generous helper, shone more conspicuously through. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
  • In a campaign that has had a lot of talk about religion getting an awful lot of play, there's a word conspicuously absent from all of the Web sites of the candidates. CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007
  • The Greenheads are humanoid - human like - but their countenances and outlines are conspicuously similar to the Grays, the archetypal aliens who appear in abduction stories in popular culture.
  • As Gillen Wood argues, for example, Francis Burney's representation of the experience of listening to a castrato at the opera in Evelina and Cecilia is conspicuously disembodied — any and all description of the castrato's corporeality is absent, being transposed into the sound of his sublime voice. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
  • They become ‘unhandy’ and in this unhandiness they fail to serve the function that they had served so inconspicuously up to that point.
  • However Ken conspicuously failed to mention that the other teams researching in the area have dismissed the Vinnikov and Grody paper as arrant nonsense.
  • She figured conspicuously in the public debate on the issue.
  • The conspicuously wealthy ruling party elite feels none of this. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eyelids which are to deeply pendant and show conspicuously the lachrymal glands, or a very red, thick haw, and eyes that are to light, are objectionable.
  • Harlean Carpentier, later to become the most popular female film star of her time, was born in 1911 of a conspicuously mismated and middle-class couple. Hell's Angel
  • FRANKFURT: Malaysia was conspicuously missing at the just-concluded four-day HEIMTEXTIL Fair in Frankfurt. Nst online
  • They like to sit and sing conspicuously on a telephone wire or the top of a hedgerow tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ads he is financing this weekend refer pointedly to the Council, reminding voters of a "slush fund scandal" involving fake community organizations, but conspicuously ignore the mayor.
  • On her right wrist she conspicuously displays a cameo bracelet bearing the profile of Louis XV.
  • And now --- still conspicuously ignoring them --- Theo and I shimmied past Ed and Miss Lay. RESCUING ROSE
  • He seemed conspicuously stiff at public speaking.
  • It probably helps that it's a squad conspicuously low on superstars.
  • Grand amours and boon companionship are conspicuously absent from his narrative.
  • In this study, the pectate lyase gene expression was located in the recent products of cambial divisions of both phloem and xylem and conspicuously localized in the xylem parenchyma cells of young vascular bundles.
  • Women were conspicuously absent from the planning committee.
  • They soon spread to a variety of habitats, but in the Palaeozoic they were conspicuously abundant in relatively shallow environments.
  • Inconspicuously, she made a snowball and threw it at Tara.
  • Because adjudication is dispositive the attitude of states towards compulsory jurisdiction is conspicuously ambivalent.
  • In the fossils I and J, the archenteron is thick-walled, and in J all of the cells in the embryo, including the ectodermal wall, are conspicuously larger relative to the size of the embryo.
  • Feature films are not just testimonials - they need a shape - and this film is conspicuously amorphous.
  • Although the Mandate was created by agreement, treaty arguments are conspicuously absent from the Court's reasoning in these two cases.
  • My trifle, in particular, was made with conspicuously fresh ingredients, and the attention made it a treat.
  • Grassroots and religious institutions, fraternal, sororal and civil-rights organizations have been conspicuously silent.
  • She's standing up and wearing a weird white jacket buttoned conspicuously at the waist as if to argue with those who said she'd been photoshopped into semi-svelteness. Archive 2006-09-01
  • He had promised that if the men wanted a struggle he would put up the best fight they had ever had, and he had been active all that afternoon in meeting the quarrel half way, and preparing as conspicuously as possible for the scratch force of "blacklegs" -- as we called them -- who were, he said and we believed, to replace the strikers in his pits. In the Days of the Comet
  • The temple's grand white arches rose conspicuously over the dirty decaying city.
  • The waterside gardens and pathway were conspicuously well presented.
  • Also, on desk, conspicuously, is a heavy dispatch box. THEFT
  • Meanwhile, she has been conspicuously palling around with a billionaire.
  • If we are as phlegmatic as we like to believe would we revel so conspicuously in our tragedy?
  • Daemon seated himself as inconspicuously as possible while his shipmates mingled raucously with the riff-raff that populated the bar.
  • One group of plants that stands out conspicuously are those lofty and lanky woody perennials, the trees and shrubs.
  • T sumptuously stock nasdaq on the busybodied liability the antigone sphacele, upstairs the voicer upscale conspicuously grandmother of the syracuse of the trolling. Rational Review
  • The stipites throughout the genus are conspicuously dilated for about half their length from the base upward, the other (apical) portion of them being comparatively very narrow.
  • They differ from other dasyuroids most conspicuously in their size and body form; these large, wolflike animals reached a weight of 35 kg and had long, canid like limbs with digitigrade posture.
  • Italy's few stout-hearted collectors of emerging art, Giuseppe Panza most conspicuously, were inclined to favor the Americans.
  • The rich had not become so conspicuously rich as to drown all moderate incomes in obscurity.
  • The _first glume_ is chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-toothed with the teeth ending in two short awns, densely ciliated at the apex on one side, conspicuously 6 - A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • It is conspicuously anti-gay and anti-Semitic, and has gone out of its way to earn contempt around the country by picketing the funerals of soldiers and Marines killed in combat.
  • Mr. Dubster then walked up to her, and, with an air conspicuously aukward, solemnly said, 'So you want to dance, ma'am?' Camilla
  • The austerity that has made desire philosophically acceptable is conspicuously absent from pleasure; pleasure is harder to disembody.
  • • Match report: Manchester City 0-1 Tottenham• Read Paul Doyle's minute-by-minute report• Richard Williams: Spurs 'England contingent shine• In pictures: Tom Jenkins's best images from the gameUltimately, though, they came up conspicuously short and, as the game reached its final stages, Mancini could be seen screaming into the night air, kicking out those polished shoes and releasing all that pent-up frustration in the knowledge that a place in the Champions League qualifiers was about to pass them by. Even with all their riches, City will be far poorer for this failure
  • Never known for being camera shy in the past, he was conspicuously absent from the world's television screens.
  • Similar teeth with a conspicuously ridged enamel surface are also known for Acrochordus, and for the colubroid genus Enhydris.
  • December 21st, 2008 at 8: 50 pm auto ins teenager quot mmi inc com in irving tx rogue says: auto ins teenager quot mmi inc com in irving tx rogue … conspicuously? weigh Kuwait Jon coulomb? Think Progress » Much bigger than the Dukestir.
  • The form of his grey Stetson had lost its definition, and the burnished highlights of his dark eyes were conspicuously absent. DANSVILLE
  • The NFL's most blusterous coach, Rex Ryan, has been conspicuously silent since the Jets' brutal season ended.
  • 'amended*, acts of 1935, is hereby amended by adding at the end the following clause: —; provided, however, that no constable or special constable shall stop or arrest any person for viola - tion of a motor vehicle law unless such constable or special constable is in uniform or displays his badge conspicuously on the outside of his outer coat or garment. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
  • Civil -- well-horsed, conspicuously armed and point-device in their accoutrements -- sat stiff, silent, and vigilant in the mouth of an odd by-road. Jonah and Co.
  • Campbell’s former career as a sprinter is one of which his wife is conspicuously proud. Two times a lady
  • Forget Amis fils; this is a man conspicuously without the quality of modesty.
  • It is recognized by its oblique cones, conspicuously spinose, indefinitely persistent and very serotinous. The Genus Pinus
  • To say more would require something of an intellectual or stylistic mandate which Lanchester conspicuously does not have.
  • Most conspicuously, the authors have little to say about pedestrianism itself. The Times Literary Supplement
  • They soon spread to a variety of habitats, but in the Palaeozoic they were conspicuously abundant in relatively shallow environments.
  • Schelling's rhetoric is once again conspicuously affective: human beings "never gain control" of their dark nature, he writes: "This is the sadness which inheres to all finite life [...] Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
  • In Germany in the good old days certain kinds of female criminals were "impaled," a punishment too grotesquely horrible for description, but likely enough considered by the simple German of the period conspicuously merciful. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
  • She grinned as I inconspicuously grimaced and longed to duck beneath the covers.
  • And they don't know because the media has been conspicuously silent on this topic.
  • Clinical ecology is conspicuously independent of industrial influence. An Alternative Approach to Allergies
  • And, once again, the big names have been conspicuously absent from the upper half of the performance table.
  • Despite the huge revival in streetwear, which continues this season, trainers have been conspicuously absent. Times, Sunday Times
  • The greatest threat to humans comes from the stingrays, large flatfish that lie inconspicuously on the seabed in shallow waters.
  • His appeal to Wilson modestly requested constitutional government, democratic freedoms and other reforms for Vietnamconspicuously omitting any reference to independence.
  • The next largest industrial group were in the clothing trades, most conspicuously tailors and shoemakers.
  • Local women were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
  • They in turn had advised her to move out inconspicuously and to leave no forwarding address. THE SECRET OF THE FORGOTTEN CITY
  • there have been plenty of general declarations about willingness to meet and talk, but conspicuously no mention of time and place
  • It is, however, to be wished there were more such "cliquey" people in our midst, for they are always conspicuously at the fore in supporting by their influence and their money every good cause which has for its object the alleviation of suffering and the improvement of the people. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"
  • Members of the Catholic church were conspicuously absent.
  • Moreover, the effect of the Master's adjurations seems in fact to be that Calverley has abandoned any thoughts of Christianity at all, since he immediately invokes the conspicuously pagan concept of Fate.
  • While rings with a historic provenience have been found conspicuously on fingers in burials, many more have been recovered in what were probably bags or on strings or simply scattered.
  • Moreover, the distinctively dense scopae typical for eucerines are conspicuously absent in the fossil.
  • To develop so strong a brand on so conspicuously threadbare a rationale is hugely creative – revolutionary even. 2009 January 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • Liz walked on inconspicuously until the headstocks of two B.C. Rich guitars closed in front of her.
  • When I arrived, I was lent a small cap; my hat would have been conspicuously different.
  • Like government spies, two besuited Department of Health officials sat quietly but conspicuously taking notes at the back. Letters: The NHS is unsafe in their hands
  • Predominantly in the tangential walls, primary pit fields of high density are conspicuously labelled by aniline blue staining of callose.
  • At bars 143-45 of his anthem what appears to be a de facto tenor-register part, bearing the crucial cadential 4-3 suspension, is transmitted in the Durham organ part but is conspicuously absent from the extant voice parts.
  • The brown kurrajong (COMMERSONIA ECHINATA) exhibits it even more conspicuously, and, when the dusty white flowers — displayed in almost horizontal planes — are buffeted by the winds and the white undersides of the leaves are revealed, the whole style of the tree is transformed as a demure damsel is by tempestuous petticoats. Tropic Days
  • - Colour dusky grey-brown above, more or less dark, with black hands and feet; a conspicuous crest on the vertex; under parts white, scarcely extending to the inside of the limbs; sides grey like the back; whiskers dark, very long, concealing the ears in front; lips and eyelids conspicuously white, with white moustachial hairs above and similar hairs below. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • There was pathos in the evocatively dovetailed dialogues with the strings; left-hand chords emerged inconspicuously from tuttis, the melody poised evanescently above.
  • He sat in her box at the Opera; he translated the conspicuously unspeakable passages in all of the lively but naive comedies; he ordered her champagnes and invented hors d'oeuvres so neoterical in character that even the Her Weight in Gold
  • Using the foot peg, the base is driven into the mud in a shallow area, such that the duck decoy flies conspicuously above the water.
  • After being conspicuously unhelped by the judge, Rebecca turns again, and says to Stefan: THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • Although the Mandate was created by agreement, treaty arguments are conspicuously absent from the Court's reasoning in these two cases.
  • Listen to her voice and there's a depth and maturity that many of the current batch of young teenage chanteuses, who look as if the worst thing in life they've experienced is runny mascara, conspicuously lack.
  • Her friendship with Audrey was conspicuously nonerotic, to the degree that Molly eschewed all physical contact, even to the shaking of hands. The Houseguest
  • They like to sit and sing conspicuously on a telephone wire or the top of a hedgerow tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • A group of well-dressed men and women - the men in three-cornered hats, the women in long dresses - are promenading conspicuously beside the river.
  • Welsh kings and lesser lords did participate in an expensive and conspicuously pious practice: they employed what wealth they had on extravagant almsgiving.
  • They like to sit and sing conspicuously on a telephone wire or the top of a hedgerow tree. Times, Sunday Times
  • So he sat on his haunches, conspicuously in an open space, and challenged the hawk down out of the sky. The Law of Meat
  • Unterberg founded the movement in 1902 and served conspicuously as the lone woman on the CYMHKA and on the board of the JWB. Young Women's Hebrew Association.
  • I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly.
  • -- "Ears oval, with many distinct folds, naked except at the base; tragus securiform; fur thick, close, fuscous-black; or dark fuscous-brown above; beneath paler, except on the throat, the hairs being conspicuously tipped with grey, the upper hairs being all white at their base; face nude, and the membrane dark brownish-black" (_Jerdon_). Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
  • If, when you are out, you can inconspicuously run a clean powder-puff over your face, no one will accuse you of indelicacy.
  • It was mounted on the box seats very high up, where it looked conspicuously happy, and sounded a little hysterical; and it was packed, tight and warm and anticipant into every available seat. A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')
  • We sat down at the table, with Joe lurking inconspicuously nearby.
  • They soon spread to a variety of habitats, but in the Palaeozoic they were conspicuously abundant in relatively shallow environments.
  • As to _Inglebury_ and _Mary_, the causes of all the pother, they struck me as conspicuously unworth so much fussing over; and, when their final flight together landed them -- well, where it did, I could only feel that the neighbourhood was to be congratulated. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919
  • His conspicuously theatrical account of the cathedral setting, of the votive lighting, and of his own pantomimic actions identifies this scene as a performative reprise of the dilemma of the bargain discussed earlier.
  • All the machines were making as much noise as lawnmowers and were spewing black smoke and waggling and were conspicuously belt-operated.
  • Mr. Echenoz employs a similar finesse to particularize moments that are conspicuously irrelevant or ridiculous. A Window Onto Comic Tedium
  • How else to explain the suddenly awakened consciences of the conspicuously caucasian Tea Baggers who, rather than easily grasp that the causes they trumpet are actually empirically proven to be detrimental to their own interests, opt instead to bleat banal credos which sound superficially like rousing cries for "smaller government" and "accountability" but what are in truth thinly veiled, virulent, recidivistic expressions of deep-seated racism? The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Confederates, who, in his opinion, did not number over 50,000 [834], had again brought his name conspicuously before the country. A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • Feminist arguments in favour of day nurseries were also conspicuously absent.
  • But there is also a feeling of wit and hope, conspicuously absent from the previous show, which suggests a new inner positivity.
  • His appeal to Wilson modestly requested constitutional government, democratic freedoms and other reforms for Vietnamconspicuously omitting any reference to independence.
  • Conspicuously cultivated ironic distantiation, the flaunting of lack of commitment, is thus the only possible option.
  • the usual congratulatory crowd was conspicuously absent
  • Hough introduces Sarwar Khan in conspicuously unfavorable terms as follows: Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Can't you see the spit forming on the sides of their conspicuously large frames, in cosmic irony of the fact that they clearly look like their moms but act like sadistic he-men?
  • Faustus and Helen does most conspicuously dilucidate the fermenting of the male and female dragon. A Tale of a Tub
  • The dangers were most conspicuously apparent in the vast sums being made from India.
  • Stories of substance, new and old alike, are often conspicuously absent.
  • There are instances, however, where scale-motion rather conspicuously predominates, or where a melody is made largely of scale segments - of half-scales or tetrachords, for example.
  • But those conspicuously carrying briefcases and cellular phones must pay up.
  • Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov, the abrasive and ambitious Speaker, whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis.
  • Although the message of prudence, at a time when CIC's dumping of £351. 4m of Morgan Stanley shares has conspicuously not generated any money for transfer activity, might dishearten fans, it should not be interpreted as a lack of team investment. China fund raises finance to match Liverpool asking price
  • His considerable discussions of sexuality are conspicuously free from prudery, so frank that he feared being read by people whose minds were unequal to the seriousness of the subject.
  • Provided the solution was a rational one and not conspicuously unfair his Lordship could not quash it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I fancied that the aster radula, diplopappus umbellatus, solidago lanceolatus, red trumpetweed, and many others which were conspicuously in bloom on the shore of the lake and on the carry, had a peculiarly wild and primitive look there. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
  • The temple's grand white arches rose conspicuously over the dirty decaying city.
  • Intelligence did not figure. largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent.
  • Gregory's undeviating scrutiny, with the conviction that parchesi was not conspicuously different from the other more resounding movements of the world and its affairs. Cytherea
  • Daemon seated himself as inconspicuously as possible while his shipmates mingled raucously with the riff-raff that populated the bar.
  • Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee head Suresh Kalmadi found his name conspicuously absent from the list of invitees. TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The shales are conspicuously fissile throughout the section and, along with the associated carbonates, tend to become increasingly red-colored toward the top of the member.
  • The eyepiece inconspicuously attaches to your glasses - appearing as the equivalent of a full-size monitor to your proximate eye.
  • Morality and accountability are conspicuously absent.
  • I feel it is great to do this kind of introspective self analyzation and have a manifesto for sustainability, but the energy “issue” does seem to be conspicuously absent in your reasoning. Build Blog » A Statement on Sustainability by BUILD LLC
  • But in the historically less-diverse world of Riverdale, in the longtime land of white-walled jalopies and conspicuously vanilla malt shops, this registers as notable. 'BETTY or VERONICA...or KEVIN?': First gay character enrolls at Archie's Riverdale [UPDATED]
  • he had entered the room inconspicuously
  • Each quill is conspicuously marked with black and white bands.
  • Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
  • Hotels, casinos, holiday-makers and rivercraft are conspicuously absent from Monet's work.
  • But though we were unable to forereach upon our big neighbour, it became evident, as the morning now wore on, that the two craft were very gradually nearing each other, the extraordinary weatherly qualities of the _Esmeralda_ coming conspicuously into notice in this thrash to windward on a taut bowline, now that we had the opportunity of comparing them with those of another vessel. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
  • The captain's story is conspicuously smooth, a vertical ascent to stardom.
  • Tom was conspicuously lacking in enthusiasm for the idea.
  • Daemus turned to face the soldier addressing him, a smooth-faced lad in a conspicuously dry uniform and a corporal's insignia on his collar. Dust and Blood
  • In addition, the response by the government to such reports has frequently been conspicuously disappointing.
  • Sushi restaurants and bars figure prominently, while roller-bladers are conspicuously absent.
  • It is conspicuously silly in places, with a chorus of Belfast millies incongruously inserted into the midst of the classical melodramatic and stylised family angst.
  • Isolation by desiccation would also explain why dicynodonts - mammallike reptiles that dominate fossil assemblages elsewhere during this time - are conspicuously absent at the site that yielded the two new amphibians.
  • If Homer does not know small circular shields, but refers always to huge shields, whereas, from the eighth century B.C. onwards, such shields were not in use (disregarding Tyrtaeus, and the vase of Aristonothos on which they appear conspicuously, and the Dodwell pyxis), where are we? Homer and His Age
  • My brain went through a fast-forward of Kodak moments where I was conspicuously absent. WHAT LOOKS LIKE CRAZY ON AN ORDINARY DAY
  • Women were conspicuously absent from the planning committee.
  • A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy cover of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it.
  • Local women were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
  • Inconspicuously, a three piece ensemble plays background music.
  • Yet he conspicuously fails to deal with the strongest of the objections. Times, Sunday Times
  • Conspicuously absent, however, are maki sushi (rolls) of any kind, though some hand rolls are available.
  • More conspicuously aberrant is an example I read over the weekend: Nouns of multitude
  • Contemporary money and Credit is created largely through the expansion of myriad financial sector liabilities, something that many non-banks have been engaged in aggressively and conspicuously.
  • It's garden-variety product placement, but instead of stars conspicuously drinking a certain beverage or driving a certain car, they're battling eco-baddies or monologuing about the dangers of CFCs. Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • There was pathos in the evocatively dovetailed dialogues with the strings; left-hand chords emerged inconspicuously from tuttis, the melody poised evanescently above.
  • Bud-scales with conspicuously long free fimbriate margins. The Genus Pinus
  • He would give a picnic at which the bogey bridecake should figure conspicuously, and then be laid finally by the process of demolition. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
  • Inconspicuously dressed in a kilt, sporran, dagger, and ‘black mask of Osiris’, Crowley crept down the suburban road from Olympia and bamboozled his way into the sacred vaults.
  • The process of reproduction is still conspicuously missing from most discussions of economic affairs, as the following passage typifies.
  • Grinnell (1909: 278) said that "_ater_ has a tumid bill, broad and high at [the] base with [a] conspicuously arched culmen" whereas "_artemisiae_ has a longer and relatively much slenderer bill, vertically shallow at [the] base and laterally compressed, with the culmen in its greater portion straight or even slightly depressed. Birds from Coahuila, Mexico

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