Sentence examples for conspicuous purpose from inspiring English sources

But, much like the scene of Jacob (Taylor Lautner), the franchise's favorite pinup, strolling into the story with visibly erect nipples, this family album serves a conspicuous purpose.

And corporate donors normally prefer their money to be used for conspicuous purposes, such as a library, rather than to top up salaries.One solution might be to encourage more privately-run universities.

With 12 minutes to go, they broke with the kind of purpose conspicuous by its absence before.

But the tinamou's conspicuous eggs serve a purpose.

The term euthenics was first defined by Ellen Swallow Richards of Vassar's class of 1870 as "[t]he betterment of living conditions, though conspicuous endeavor for the purpose of securing more efficient human beings".

Several works display conspicuous discipline, but to trivial purpose.

Paul A. Levengood, president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Historical Society, said a conspicuous church served a political purpose for the British.

Here, pedestrians don't have right of way; if you're just there to gape you'll be dissonantly conspicuous in this symphony of purpose.

They are Veblen goods, named after Thorstein Veblen, the economist who posited that conspicuous consumption has an inherent purpose as a signal of status.

Looking down the list it is also possible to detect a sense of clear-eyed purpose not always conspicuous when England travel to the southern hemisphere at the end of a long, hard season.

The telescope, which has a complicated scissor mechanism for adjusting its angle of view, evokes the ship's original purpose as a vessel of conspicuous luxury for Morgan and his friends.