Sentence examples for both conspicuous from inspiring English sources
Viewed this way, both conspicuous consumption and what the researchers call "blatant benevolence" are costly signals.
"We first bonded," recalls Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat, "because we were both conspicuous nonworshipers at the Temple of the Fed and of the High Priest Greenspan".
"Half-baked Nietzsche" was the scornful dismissal of Raymond Mortimer in the Sunday Times, where Cyril Connolly and his wild praise were both conspicuous by their absence.
But it would require visionary courage and a commitment to the true simplification of pensions, both conspicuous by their absence in recent years.
Midfielder Jonny Williams and the new signing Jack Hunt are both conspicuous by their absence from the Palace squad and the pair face months on the sidelines.
Despite successful years on court, Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic – who were both conspicuous no-shows from the awards ceremony – were overlooked contenders for Australia's "most outstanding elite tennis player and ambassador for the sport".
A project that clearly fails the Keystone Principle test is Keystone itself; the pipeline, Golden notes, is "both a conspicuous example of this kind of investment and a powerful symbol for the whole damned category".
Crane had already become one of the emblematic figures of the Lost Generation, thanks both to his conspicuous alcoholism, which was not uncommon in Prohibition America, and to his relatively open homosexuality, which was.
Amid the crowds, happy bands of cricket fans heading to Lord's, conspicuous both by their picnics and kit, backpacks, anoraks, floppy hats, and their conversations about the many permutations of the next few days' play, which promise to be especially enthralling.
Examination showed nothing conspicuous; both the bony structures of the petrous bone and the internal auditory canal were without pathological findings.
TWO planes dominated conversation at the Farnborough air show, but both were conspicuous by their absence.
