The re-Catholicization required substantial educational and missionary efforts, and the Jesuits ultimately became the most conspicuous force in Czech cultural life.
This increased visibility is more than an exercise in conspicuous consumption: forced into servitude under colonial rule and later relegated to the margins of society, Bolivia's many indigenous peoples were long excluded from mainstream society.
Taylor argues that traffic is safer when cyclists are more conspicuous, as motorists are forced to take accountability for helping keep them safe and are less easily lulled into dangerous behaviors like speeding or turning without looking.
But after Sept. 11, a painful security headache arose as the threat of terrorism against a conspicuous gathering in the Middle East forced the United States and most other nations to send only skeleton negotiating teams.
Article 144 of the Constitution directed the newly created military police entities to serve as a "conspicuous police force and preserve public order", subordinate, together with the civil police, to state governors.
The squeeze on international oil companies has been conspicuous in Russia, where Royal Dutch Shell was forced to sell half of its $20 billion Sakhalin II oil and natural gas deepwater development to the state natural gas company, Gazprom, in 2007.
Arguments about "civic maturity" or prevention of forced marriages have been conspicuous by their absence.
While their race was considerably shorter than the men's, they were at times forced to contend with fiendishly strong winds that were conspicuous by their absence 24 hours previously.
But since our favorite sport, conspicuous consumption, has gone the way of the 8-track, Americans have been forced to play a new game called "Keeping Down with the Joneses".
The conscientious, hard-working Doozers construct architectural marvels from Doozer sticks, only to be forced to witness their fluffy overlords gorge on the results, a sickening display of conspicuous consumption which fuels legendary bacchanals that can last for days.
