It's a conspicuous phenomenon – the displacement of audience participation in comedy from the margins to the spotlit centre stage.
Despite rust staining being a conspicuous phenomenon and numerous works that have dealt with the problem of removing rust stains, a simple and non-toxic method has so far been missing.
Obijiofor Aginam argues that while throughout history sexual violence against women is replete with such incidents of rape during times of war, more recent conflicts has seen the use of rape as a weapon of war become a "conspicuous phenomenon".
But attending in these ways to salient perceptual experiences, reactions, passions, and activities leads us to neglect the background or baseline affect or mood from which these more conspicuous affective phenomena arise and also the much more frequent but less conspicuous smaller deviations from this.
Both seem to belong to the same larger psychological kinds as the more conspicuous affective phenomena and to cumulatively matter much more to the quality of life (Watson 2000; Diener, Sandvik, and Pavot 1991; cf. Coan and Allen 2003, Rachels 2004).
This paper develops a theory of conspicuous conservation, a phenomenon related to conspicuous consumption in which individuals seek status through displays of austerity amid growing concern about environmental protection.
For the restaurant that welcomes Bourdain and his crew, there are conspicuous upsides to this phenomenon.
If you thought that conspicuous consumption was a recent phenomenon, consider ancient Rome, where Julius Caesar had to enact sumptuary laws to limit who could wear pearls and how.
One of the most conspicuous recent examples of this phenomenon is the Hyperloop, a futuristic transportation network that, its adherents say, will send paying customers through vacuum-powered tubes at speeds of up to seven hundred and sixty miles per hour — from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under thirty minutes.
