Sentence examples for conspicuous pride from inspiring English sources

Before his sudden and manifestly destined ascendency to the top, Australia had some idea of what Malcolm Turnbull stood for: He was the country's most vocal advocate for a republic, he was committed to "effective action on climate change," and he marched with conspicuous pride in Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

And, he says, a "conspicuous sense of pride could be seen returning to a staff that has endured a tumultuous year of organizational upheaval and the continued loss of some of the nation's most respected journalists to cost-cutting buyouts".

As director of the office of management and budget, and then deputy mayor, he slashed the city budget and took pride in conspicuous prudence, even in the smallest of monetary matters.

The Professor Ellen Spertus was a conspicuous centerpiece of M.I.T.'s nerd pride movement while she was a student there.

But if so, they did a good job of hiding it and any gloom was conspicuous by its absence as an overwhelming sense of pride engulfed this famous old ground, the reality dawning that the Reds have returned to the top table of English football and look well equipped to stay there.

There is conspicuous consumption, high fashion and cosmopolitan lifestyle – but also national pride and a sense of historical optimism.

For civic pride, for a sense that it can supersede its more conspicuous neighbors, Philadelphia has often turned to its sports teams, except that the teams here have failed far more often than they have succeeded, letting fans down in the most excruciating ways.

Prince may have towed the line on many societal norms and forms of self-identification, but his pride in being a Black American was always ardent, clear and conspicuous.

Its conspicuous failure to catch one of the world's most wanted men stirs their pride.

Manchester has always been torn between pride in its achievements and a gnawing sense of inadequacy, nowhere more conspicuous than in its two soccer clubs: Manchester United, the nation's champion, and Manchester City, just demoted to a lesser league.

Not conspicuous?