Sentence examples for being a conspicuous exception from inspiring English sources

The revolutionary '60s idealism that underlies many of the spaghetti westerns (Leone's being a conspicuous exception) hardens in Mr. Di Leo's films into a self-interested cynicism, reflecting the increasingly gangsterish tendencies of the Italian radical left of the '70s.

That's why Democrats, though they have fewer dollars, are sometimes able to get more people to vote for them, and sometimes (the last Presidential election being a conspicuous exception) getting more votes enables you to win.

The airlines themselves tend to be junk credits, Southwest being 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.

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

"Where Are We Now?," Bowie's beautifully fragile comeback ballad and the first single from "The Next Day," was a conspicuous exception — it was a snapshot, relatively easy to parse, of an older man revisiting Berlin and wondering about the city's ch-ch-changes.