The ceremony was performed in some conspicuous place, and, upon its termination, letters were written to bishops of other sees to report the fact.
Hillary Clinton's vulnerabilities as a Presidential candidate are visible and often remarked upon — conspicuous wealth, a self-protecting style, and the baggage accumulated during three decades in public life.
Recalling the reluctance of the States to support George Washington's federal army, Randolph complained about the "Imbecility of the Confederation... conspicuous when called upon to support a war".
An aspiring novelist in a rigid social order in which women of conspicuous intelligence are frowned upon, she is willing to take her chances.
An entire generation of them has no memory of the days of plenty, and those of us who have know - just as millions of Mediterranean dwellers could have warned us - that their demise is almost entirely attributable to the vogue for conspicuous abstinence that fell upon us some time back there in the Eighties.
Like the Earthwork pioneers, Ericson and Ziegler took the whole country as their working space; but rather than impose a conspicuous work of art upon a site or situation, they devised projects that altered sites subtly, creating a patchwork of poetic narratives and histories to be excavated.
Providing $200 billion of taxpayer support to prop up consumer credit, so that Americans can return to a false economy predicated upon unbridled, conspicuous consumption, is socialism not capitalism.
All Procellariiformes are recognizable by their conspicuous tubular nostrils, which project upon the culmen (upper bill).
The Congress refused to give him the one element of his proposed government reorganization that actually conferred upon him a conspicuous new power -- a presidential Supreme State Inspectorate that was to police compliance with orders from Moscow.
She was a creation of the 1990s when reckless consumption and conspicuous materialism were not frowned upon in quite the way they are now, and when social commentators talked about "The Bridget Jones Generation", Helen and her fictional alter-ego had secured their place in modern cultural history.
