Sentence examples for conspicuous show from inspiring English sources

Every four years, in a conspicuous show of phoney democracy, General Stroessner stood as the Colorado candidate and was elected, sometimes as his supporters joked with more than 100% of the vote.

It's a conspicuous show of its budget, but the story of its budget isn't built into the film's story as it is in Gomes's ingenious and trenchant "Arabian Nights".

Those beliefs the conviction that there were two forces, one good and the other evil, at war in the universe were repugnant to her, and she made a conspicuous show of weeping bitterly, as if her son had died.

In a conspicuous show of bipartisanship during a fractious time at the Capitol, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee vowed to forge ahead by interviewing key players connected to Mr. Trump and pressing intelligence agencies to provide all relevant information.

When Mr. Gingrich walked out of the meeting and into a gaggle of reporters and cameras, he made a conspicuous show of talking about other issues -- trade and the economy -- and even praised Mr. Clinton's efforts to renew world economic growth.

On Sunday, in a conspicuous show of support for South Africa, the president of the World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn, on a trip here to meet with President Thabo Mbeki, praised the government's handling of the economy and went to great lengths to distance South Africa from the convulsions in neighboring Zimbabwe.

Because the Fourth of July spectacle in Hollister was the next major event on the West Coast motorcycle-rally calendar, and because the Hell's Angels have always made a conspicuous showing there, speculation immediately turned to whether the Mongols would come around for more action.

Only taste is a conspicuous no-show.

The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was a conspicuous no-show.

It was a ceremony marked by conspicuous no-shows.

From Moldova to Mauritius, the bug was a conspicuous no-show.