Set to a remix of Fred Astaire's version of "I Won't Dance," blaring from an ice cream truck's loudspeaker, it's the film's most conspicuous attempt to ride Astaire's coattails and is its only memorable dance.
Afghan and American officials have interpreted the arrests as a conspicuous attempt by Pakistan's Army and the I.S.I. to position themselves as intermediaries in any negotiations with the Taliban; the goal is to protect Pakistan's interests in any peace deal and to extract concessions from Washington and Kabul.
Common sense suggests not just a full and frank inquest into his own election, but also a conspicuous attempt to reach out to his opponents to appoint Democrats to his cabinet and to moderate his own proposals, particularly his tax cut.There are some grounds for hope.
(SUNY's most conspicuous attempt to play in that league — Binghamton's one trip to the N.C.A.A. Division I basketball tournament in 2009 — ended in scandal, with arrests of several players, accusations of preferential treatment for athletes and the implosion of the program).
David Cameron's Gulf mission is a conspicuous attempt to calm relations with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, both vital trading partners, after spats caused by the changes during the Arab spring and fears over the growing strength of Islamist groups in the Middle East.
In a conspicuous attempt to allay public fear, on Friday Obama was photographed hugging Nina Pham, the first of two Texas nurses to recover from the disease after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia and died in Dallas earlier this month.
The most conspicuous past attempt at effecting a peace between warring parties came in China just before and just after World War II, when a succession of U.S. mediators tried, entirely unsuccessfully, to bring the ruling Nationalists of Chiang Kai-shek into a coalition government with the Communists under Mao Zedong.
The differences between the color vision of humans and the animals that the color patterns are directed toward could mean the difference between assuming an animal that is "brightly" colored is conspicuous, possibly attempting to attract a mate, and that the colors function as camouflage (Marshall 2000).
Immigrants said they felt so conspicuous during early attempts to walk along the shoulder of the roads that they feared people would suspect they were here illegally.
This alone would make those looking to cross undetected conspicuous in their attempt at stealth, and more readily detectable by border patrol agents freed up to deter activity that is actually criminal.
