Sentence examples for conspicuous calling from inspiring English sources

Acoustically communicating insects face a trade-off between survival and reproduction by producing conspicuous calling songs attracting both intended (potential mates) and unintended receivers (e.g. bats) [7], [10], [29].

(A porphyry is an igneous rock containing conspicuous crystals, called phenocrysts, surrounded by a matrix of finer-grained minerals or glass or both).

Some species, like C. striatus and C. setosus, have conspicuous bristles called setae on the rim of the cup.

Recalling the reluctance of the States to support George Washington's federal army, Randolph complained about the "Imbecility of the Confederation... conspicuous when called upon to support a war".

While the review was critical of Lessing's prose style, saying its "gracelessness has never been more conspicuous", and called her descriptions of the Zone Four war economy "a silly cartoon sketch", it said that "there is a sweetness and generosity about this work not quite like anything she has done".

The tremendous expansion of the art market over the past half-century has been naturally accompanied by countless Moses-type critics, denouncing its spectacles of conspicuous consumption and calling for moral and political corrections.

Conspicuous rejection is calling a worthy benefit party "horrible," as an editor I know did last week, or crowing, "We leave St .Bart's early because New Year's Eve there has become unbearable," as a socialite once told me.

The constellation also contains the conspicuous molecular cloud called the Coalsack.

How does what's been called "conspicuous charity" influence donors with more modest budgets?

For obvious reasons, that conspicuous indifference seriously calls into question the role that "humanitarianism" actually played here.

Rutting bucks form small breeding territories on female ranges and may unite these territories into conspicuous territory clusters called leks.