Sentence examples for conspicuous attention from inspiring English sources

Mr. Norton is not the only prominent collector of new art to receive conspicuous attention lately.

The movie also pays conspicuous attention to the other neighborhood wildlife, including a scary bat that invades the kitchen and frogs that pop up in a toilet.

Renoir is a poet of the group; what takes place in the presence of the conspicuous attentions of groups is purified by the sunlight of collective wisdom (as in the small-scale revolution of "The Crime of Monsieur Lange," the vast one of "La Marseillaise," and the in-between one of "The Diary of a Chambermaid"), and the furtive is tinged with both illicit pleasures and dastardly motives.

But Mr. Clinton's trip to China has been noticeable for his conspicuous lack of attention to American commercial interests.

An organism with conspicuous coloration draws attention to itself, with some sort of adaptive interaction the frequent result.

There is something freakish about Obama's self-possession — it's conspicuous, it draws attention to itself, like the unnatural stillness of someone able to lower his blood pressure at will.

The same year she made herself conspicuous by her attentions to the Gunpowder Plot prisoners, accused of conspiracy to blow up King James I of England and Parliament.

On the other hand, she ignores it where it is most conspicuous: she gives passing attention to Marchamont Nedham's fully articulated republicanism and no attention whatsoever to the most comprehensive English reading of Machiavelli in the seventeenth century: James Harrington's Oceana.

Do the conspicuous seeds draw unwanted attention?

Nobody, with one or two conspicuous exceptions, paid any attention to it.

Birds did not generalize their learned avoidance of one colour morph to the other two morphs, suggesting that they pay more attention to conspicuous wing coloration than other traits.