Sentence examples for conspicuous parts from inspiring English sources

Among 17th-century artists, the use of the precious blue ultramarine pigment was rare and reserved for the most conspicuous parts of the canvas.

Or, as seems more likely, is it just a reflection of males' being more active and using more conspicuous parts of the habitat?

In the former, sepals and petals are the conspicuous parts of the flower; they are often large, and the paired petals are larger than the median one except in the genus Musa and the family Lowiaceae.

The son of a distinguished man of letters, Edward Garnett, and his Tolstoy-translating wife Constance, Bunny enjoyed a wildly unconventional upbringing, in which home schooling, trips to Russia and a menage a trois in which his mother happily accepted the presence of the other woman all played conspicuous parts.

And Cott's emphasis on disruptive patterning and (following Thayer) countershading clearly affected the reviewer: "Particularly impressive is the author's treatment of "coincident disruptive coloration", in which a ruptive mark crosses structural boundaries, so as to obliterate visually such ordinarily conspicuous parts as the eye and the limbs.

Admitting error is not a conspicuous part of his makeup.

Since the early 19th century, mothers have played a much more conspicuous part in family affairs.

And he does this by bringing to the screen the most conspicuous part of himself.

It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life".

In the Tiber river basin (Central Italy) a conspicuous part of the water for human consumption arises from karstic springs.

NEURONAL cell death is a conspicuous part of development for many neuronal populations in the vertebrate nervous system1,2.