The movement known as Institutional Critique, which obsessively parses the system by which art is circulated and consumed and has been, paradoxically, much favored by museum curators, is only the most conspicuous instance of this blinkered view of real, multidimensional life in the world at large.
He is a conspicuous instance of a self-made man.
The most conspicuous instance of this self-destruction was the imposition of controls on bank deposits last December.
A conspicuous instance of a supertask which is kinematically impossible is the one performed by Black's infinity machine, whose task it is to transport a ball from position A (x = 0) to position B (x = 1) and from B to A an infinite number of times in one hour.
In his The Constitution of Liberty (1960) he said, "The most conspicuous instance of this in our society is that of the treatment of homosexuality".
A very conspicuous instance of such variation is found in the ALNs, which appear in clusters of variable cell numbers in P. litorale but only as single neurons or neuron pairs in Meridionale sp. and C. japonicus.
Omitting the few conspicuous instances in which actual earners of money make extraordinary fortunes by exceptional personal gifts or strokes of luck, the existing differences of income among workers are not individual but corporate differences.
The conspicuous case of D. pulex could illustrate this trend.
In a war touted by our president as being for such a noble cause, I cannot think of a more noble gesture than for him to recognize what surely are instances of "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life," as the citation for the medal reads.
Although there are several records of his minor betrayals and instances of bad counsel, Eadric committed his most conspicuous act of treachery in 1015, when he sided with Canute against Edmund Ironside as Ethelred, Edmund's father, lay dying.
