Sentence examples for Less conspicuously from inspiring English sources

Less conspicuously, he has been taking advice from Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's hatchet-man.

Less conspicuously, a table in the upstairs hallway displayed a collection of family photographs.

Less conspicuously but more radically, Mr. Muti stripped off the verismo varnish applied by preceding generations, revealing an undreamed-of bel canto refinement.

Less conspicuously eccentric, though, are landscapes that anticipate Cézanne's in the way they transmute nature into an abstract idea of nature by cutting its forms loose from space and space loose from gravitational logic.

Less conspicuously threatening and intimidating than most Heddas, she has built a social armor out of dry, glancing sarcasm, a trait that makes it hard for anyone, including Hedda herself, to know when she is merely joking.

Less conspicuously, the migrating waterfowl signal this species' importance as reservoir hosts and dissemination agents, bringing the virus to creatures absent from this painting (domestic poultry, swine).

But other than his admirable stewardship of The Washington Post, he has done conspicuously less to aid humanity than have many other tycoons, even those who command far less wealth.

Think Norma Desmond, grade B sitcom style, a decade younger, and conspicuously less grand.

The other performances are at best adequate, and conspicuously less than that in the cases of Robert Clohessy, as the preening actor married to Ms. Nelligan, and Michael Mantell, as a transvestite who worships the hem of Nina Foch.

All that furious activity must have helped him distance himself from Pembleton -- enough, at least, to allow him to play another homicide detective (albeit a conspicuously less fearsome one) in Gregory Hoblit's ingenious time-travel movie "Frequency".

But as useful as Iraq undoubtedly has been as a rallying cry for jihad, it has been a conspicuously less prominent rallying point, at least in terms of men and money.