Sentence examples for conspicuous skill from inspiring English sources

All that conspicuous skill, spent in the service of a sub-Jake and Dinos Chapman gag.

The bar was also "for conspicuous skill and gallantry" when he attacked four enemy aircraft in formation and then, on another occasion, 12 enemy machines.

While he was on reconnaissance duties with No. 8 Squadron, the London Gazette announced that he had been awarded the Military Cross "for conspicuous skill and gallantry on many occasions," particularly for "one occasion [when] he attacked six in one flight".

Commended for his "conspicuous skill, ability and energy" and fostering "mutual confidence and goodwill between the Allied forces", Wells was recommended for the Distinguished Service Order, but was subsequently appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services in Greece.

But engage with the supporting material, and Miller explains that his theory about art derives from Darwin's: art emerged before humans did as a means "to attract sexual partners, by showing conspicuous beauty, skill and creativity".

There was then, and there still is, a prevailing taste for laboriously showy performance, for the sort of theatricalized accents and grimaces and pregnant gazes and expressive emphases that take an actor outside him- or herself by means of conspicuous displays of skill.

The first award was "for conspicuous gallantry and skill" when he took on two enemy formations.

Gyllenhaal's performance offers a conspicuous display of formidable skill within the film's familiar range of conventional drama.