Al Mancini is a conspicuous character in a city full of them — Las Vegas, where he is a restaurant critic and journalist.
Named after one of their most conspicuous anatomical characters, jaws, gnathostomes are much more than just a pretty smile, and the list of features that distinguishes them from their living jawless relatives contains what might be generally, but incorrectly, considered as distinctive attributes of the vertebrate body plan.
; Conspicuous localized characters Chapter 4. Deflective marks.
Sexual selection might act through various mechanisms, but female mate choice is most commonly invoked in explaining the evolution of conspicuous male characters.
A sprawling sense of whimsy and the grotesque has hitherto been Mr. Lindsay-Abaire's most conspicuous hallmark, with characters who suffer from extreme and exotic medical conditions, like amnesia or premature aging.
Other very conspicuous and consistent characters also help differentiate consistently recognised species in Table 1, such as the slender pedicellate flowers of C. calcarata; a distinct hair tuft at the anther insertion in C. siamensis; and the densely pubescent corolla in C. calcarata.
In these polymorphic species, one male morph frequently exhibits less conspicuous sexually dimorphic characters than the other morph and is consequently more like females (for instance, small horns in horned beetles [ 5]).
They're hyper-sensitive to gradations of reality and illusion, which is why the uncertainty about their own identity (they respond to a heckle about their manager Murray by referring to him as a fictional character) is conspicuous tonight.
I don't disbelieve him; yet there's another, even more prominent influence that, for all we know, may have acted unconsciously on Pegg and the director, Justin Lin, but that's nonetheless both conspicuous and affecting: the character of Feathers, from Howard Hawks's 1959 Western, "Rio Bravo," and Angie Dickinson's performance of the role.
The most conspicuous by reason of character was Roosevelt Carlos Hurd, Sr., who was a taxi-driver also working as a taxi dispatcher, a man of forty-five with hair that stood up like a badger's coat, eyes set close together and staring out under glum brows through strong glasses, and a mouth that was unremitting in its compression.
