Sentence examples for conspicuous show of from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

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.

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.

Cash Money's segment fused male bonding and corporate loyalty in a show of conspicuous consumption.

Carrying out those pizza boxes like they are overpriced bottles of liquor destroys the lines between highbrow and lowbrow, turning that splashy, sparkler-enhanced show of conspicuous consumption that plagues every VIP club into a joke.

Adult sponges lack a definite nervous system and musculature and do not show conspicuous movements of body parts.

The flow streamlines and vorticity contours show conspicuous features of the wake under high blockage ratios.

Although it does not show conspicuous improvement of on/off-current ratio and the TS device used in [92] has relatively high off-state leakage current (~ 1 μA), the steep switching characteristic with such a low off-state leakage current is successfully acquired.

At first, Reitman makes quite a conspicuous play of showing online graphics on the screen itself: the Facebook pages, the web browsers, the text messages get flashed up over the frowningly entranced faces bent over their laptops and phones.

Many webs showed conspicuous signs of damage and repair, others had large open holes that were present on consecutive days.