Women here reported embarrassment about their weight during and after pregnancy and feeling conspicuous in social situations: I think you just feel like, because you are pregnant, you're fat anyway, and being big before, you feel like everybody is looking at you.
Through good luck, good timing, and great instincts, Rimkus had created a place where everything slowed down: where you could do nothing in particular for five hours without getting restless, where a grownup could drink until three without feeling conspicuous — at least, not until he tiptoed into the office the next day.
Back in the mid-Nineties, Cantaloupe was THE place to drink – the first bar in the Hoxton area that non-scenester muggles could infiltrate without feeling too conspicuous.
Nothing breeds fond feelings like conspicuous absence.
They were always in each other's houses and were conspicuous by their joy and fellow-feeling -- which, far more than any doctrine, was the reason why the Jesus followers experienced exponential growth in their numbers.
The most conspicuous feature of the sublime is the unexpected feeling of a violent suspension of our whole experience when confronted with contradictory forces.
While I enjoyed their performances, personally I can't help feeling that The Soloist might have benefited from less conspicuous actors in the lead roles.
They look at once isolated and conspicuous.
There's no drama in Julie's relationship with Austin; Sam's drama is conspicuous, but it's hardly a spoiler to say that it gets resolved with warm feelings and no trouble.
The most conspicuous findings were the fact that stopping working brought with it so many changes, the participants' feelings of powerlessness in the process, and their experiences of offensive treatment by and/or encounters with professionals.
Montaigne's legacy becomes particularly conspicuous when Descartes draws the lesson from his travels, "having acknowledged that those who have very contrary feelings to ours are not barbarians or savages, but that many of them make use of reason as much or more so than we do".
