Sentence examples for act of conspicuous from inspiring English sources
Well, yes, it was a Swedish car, but at the time this perfectly ordinary act of conspicuous consumption felt like -- and more to the point, was being widely promoted as -- an act of civic duty.
The Greek shipping king Aristotle Onassis, it is said, married Jackie Kennedy as an act of conspicuous consumption.
Women became more willing to do volunteer work and perform other acts of conspicuous charity — a signal of high conscientiousness and agreeableness, like demonstrating your concern for third world farmers by spending extra for Starbucks's "fair trade" coffee.
It has held in the wake of horrific acts of conspicuous violence and the public hand-wringing they provoke.
In a very complicated, desperately fought three-day battle replete with unit-sized acts of conspicuous courage on both sides again and again, the Confederacy made its supreme play at Gettysburg in Longstreet's assault on the Little Round Top on July 3.
Jim Carrey, in a solemn and conspicuous act of ancestor worship, plays Kaufman, and Milos Forman directs: a return to his familiar themes of madness and creative inspiration.
Although there are several records of his minor betrayals and instances of bad counsel, Eadric committed his most conspicuous act of treachery in 1015, when he sided with Canute against Edmund Ironside as Ethelred, Edmund's father, lay dying.
A British editor reviewed the collection and concluded, "with two or three exceptions, there is not a poet of mark in the whole Union" and referred to the anthology as "the most conspicuous act of martyrdom yet committed in the service of the transatlantic muses".
The acting offers vast amounts of conspicuous labor onscreen.
Perhaps this is unfair on my part, but the conspicuous political act of publicly expunging that stain – as if it would somehow 'undo' the crime – feels uncomfortably like a self-serving gesture, a way of drawing a line under an embarrassing period in our history and moving on as though everything were fixed.
Sexual selection might act through various mechanisms, but female mate choice is most commonly invoked in explaining the evolution of conspicuous male characters.
