Sentence examples for conspicuous tendency from inspiring English sources

"A conspicuous tendency of Longinus," he wrote, "is to move from the quality of a work to its genesis in the powers and state of mind, the thought and emotions, of its author," characterized by the "bold and frequent use of metaphors".

Moreover, there was a conspicuous tendency of the positive AI values to have smaller probabilities (r = −0.6575, P<10−4, in a Spearman rank correlation test).

The conspicuous tendency of the phosphorylated tau (p-tau) neurofibrillary pathology in CTE to be perivascular and irregularly concentrated at the sulcal depths was first noted by Geddes and colleagues [ 23, 24], who described the neuropathological alterations of five young men ranging in age from 23 to 28 years.

What private equity executives and investment bankers say about the emerging leaders is that, as a group, they lack the founders' outsize personalities and tendency for conspicuous consumption that at times have hurt the industry's image.

Taxa containing many species targeted by fisheries and with large and conspicuous species had a tendency to be better known (Tables S3, S4).

This tendency was conspicuous for almost all lineages of acrodonts and reflected by considerably longer branches for acrodonts as compared to those for iguanids (Fig. 3). Figure 4 shows divergence times estimated using the mitogenomic dataset.

Taxa containing many conspicuous, larger species have a tendency to be well known taxonomically and ecologically.

Ants also have a tendency to navigate towards conspicuous objects in the environment (Graham et al. 2003).

The commentary on Aristotle's On the Soul is perhaps the earliest to contain passages in which Philoponus abandons at times proper exegesis in order to criticize Aristotelian doctrine, a tendency which is even more conspicuous in the Physics commentary, dated to 517.

MENLO PARK, Calif .- At the turn of the last century, the economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen -- coiner of the phrase "conspicuous consumption" -- railed against needless waste and the tendency of the rich to indulge themselves with expensive homes and superfluous possessions.

When comparing the results from modelled population distributions with historical trends, it is immediately clear that the concentration tendencies in the modelling results are more conspicuous than in the historical trends.