In the end, the city offered the Immigration Service twenty acres of less conspicuous land out near the airport.
To make it seem less conspicuous, pull out a homework planner with the piece of food, concealing the piece of food in your palm against the book.
When Dean starts joking about his Catholicism and paedophile priests – a sensitive subject, presumably, in the sectarian west of Scotland – there are two conspicuous walk-outs.
Although music executives said the legal costs of the case didn't make it worth fighting for, it's a conspicuous cop-out considering that legal fees never stopped them from going to absurd lengths to win their battles against Napster or MP3.com.
"Conspicuous consumption is out; purposefulness is in".
They stood out, conspicuous against the heterogeneousness of the world, by their shining, gleaming quality, their silveriness, their smoothness and weight.
Paris' luxury "triangle d'or" — the Avenues Montaigne and Georges V and Rue Francois Premier — shed its image of hushed, tasteful shopping for one of bubbly-and-macaroon-fueled conspicuous consumption played out beneath a booming house and techno soundtrack.
This conspicuous scene, playing out many times a day at the London Games, has also become an international advertising bonanza for a product not usually associated with water sports: headphones.
"Many of my childhood memories are of metals," Sacks writes: They stood out, conspicuous against the heterogeneousness of the world, by their shining, gleaming quality, their silveriness, their smoothness and weight.
Bates claimed that other species' uncanny resemblances to vegetation or stones had developed in the same way, as random variations helped certain individuals to survive while their more conspicuous brethren died out (see Bates 1862).
