A conspicuous behavior performed by some pumping male seahorses was observed while they were emptying their brood pouch: While passively sinking down from the top of the water column to the bottom, these males dilated their brood pouch opening by straightening their tail and folding their brood pouch.
The absence of Japan's elite long-distance runners in New York has been conspicuous because they perform so well elsewhere.
First, he is going to "preserve, pure and immutable, the fine flame of the original Blackshirt movement"; henceforth the uniform is to be reserved for those who perform "conspicuous service," give up at least two evenings a week, and submit to a scheme of discipline that is outlined in detail.
Those performing poorly, or not at all, would surely be conspicuous.
There were crew in life rafts, jumping down inflatable slides, demonstrating the brace position, performing CPR in an aisle... To my mind, the ambience was verging on stressful, but panic was conspicuous by its absence.
Women became more willing to do volunteer work and perform other acts of conspicuous charity — a signal of high conscientiousness and agreeableness, like demonstrating your concern for third world farmers by spending extra for Starbucks's "fair trade" coffee.
The first tests performed here examined how conspicuous seedling traits such as hypocotyl growth rate, chlorophyll accumulation, anthocyanin levels and cotyledon expansion are affected by time of growth in darkness followed by transfer to various fluence rates of light.
Here, one conspicuous outlier each occurred when lymphadenectomy was performed at 24 h and 2 days after infection, with highly prolongated survival times of 174 and 178 days, respectively.
"Our navy has performed wonders during this war, but conspicuous above and beyond all was that of capturing New Orleans".
It's the difference between theatre and cinema: politics used to be a stage, in which candidates performed with a rhetorical fervor and their conspicuous artifice was a source of ridicule.
