Sentence examples similar to conspicuous inadequacies from inspiring English sources

Manchester has always been torn between pride in its achievements and a gnawing sense of inadequacy, nowhere more conspicuous than in its two soccer clubs: Manchester United, the nation's champion, and Manchester City, just demoted to a lesser league.

A steady procession of pedestrians approached the car, either to pay tribute to my racy good taste or to snigger openly about whatever physical or emotional inadequacies would compel a middle-aged man -- namely me -- to choose such a conspicuous form of transport.

Not conspicuous?

Locally conspicuous.

Too conspicuous.

Dickens never mentioned these inadequacies.

Our own inadequacies, obviously.

Your inadequacies reeked.

A conspicuous disparity persists.

Conspicuous consumption is out.

There were inexcusable security inadequacies in Libya.