The adroit Bobo avoids vulgarly conspicuous consumption and practices "one-downmanship" in the form of very expensive simplicity.
(Supposedly, when producers asked if he still wanted to go on, he asked, "Can you make it rain harder?") Since then, it has been mostly conspicuous hair flinging and practiced spectacle and, on at least one occasion, Bruce Springsteen a-skidding, loins-first, into a camera lens.
Remarks about Zen practice are overwhelmingly conspicuous in his diary of this period.
"There can certainly be no doubt that there are conspicuous camps in Black Rock City that have practiced what I call concierge culture, and their missteps have been many," Harvey wrote.
Unfortunately, there is a conspicuous lack of looking inwards to practices within Muslim countries.
Vying for power, elites legitimized their status by claiming ancestry from various supernaturals and engaged in conspicuous displays of competition, warfare, and ritual practice which were often recorded on stone monuments.
Some compared them cynically to the more lenient punishments handed out in the 2009 expense account scandal involving members of Parliament, or the conspicuous absence of prosecutions over irresponsible banking practices that helped lead to the world financial crisis.
Mr. Cohen's conspicuous consumption comes amid continuing scrutiny of his business practices.
Conspicuous consumption, term in economics that describes and explains the practice by consumers of using goods of a higher quality or in greater quantity than might be considered necessary in practical terms.
Externally oriented CSR practices (i.e., corporate philanthropy, environmental protection) were found to be more significant in moderating the relationship between conspicuous decoration style and purchase intention than internally oriented CSR practice (i.e., employee treatment).
