Sentence examples for as a conspicuous exception from inspiring English sources

Unlike the Times's Dargis, the Reporter finds this a "subdued fest", singling out Disney's winter-wonderland photo-op for A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey, as a conspicuous exception to the generally straitened mood, and noting that "a number of high-profile buyers and sellers already are pulling up stakes" even though numerous high-profile titles have not yet been unveiled.

Meg's brother, Charles Wallace, as written by L'Engle, is a sort of holy fool, a conspicuous exception among children, a prophet or seer endowed with great powers, while Meg is an ordinary type of math-and-science prodigy, distracted and adept, for whom he's a source of delight, complicity, and trouble.

The study noted a conspicuous exception.

Rachel Barany, an educational consultant in New York, is a conspicuous exception.

Ayn Rand, however, is a conspicuous exception to this rule.

Worms usually lack appendages; polychaete annelids are a conspicuous exception.

(Markhams Building, on Pritchard Street, is a conspicuous exception).

The chief judge of the Supreme Court, Maurício Corrêa, is a conspicuous exception.

Britain, with its fragmented unions and employers' groups, was a conspicuous exception, and its attempt to mimic French indicative planning in the 1960s was a conspicuous failure.

In a city where most notables seek rather than shun the spotlight, Mr. Coe was a conspicuous exception.

But one case is a conspicuous exception: the number of 7(a) loans of $150,000 or less actually fell by about 13 percent.