Sentence examples for conspicuous utility from inspiring English sources
(Surely there's some skill involved in tracking down and installing the third-party applications that make this little bundle live up to its full potential, right?) This is conspicuous utility.
Similar with Amaldoss and Jain (2005) and Tereyagoglu and Veeraraghavan (2012), we describe the customer utility with conspicuous consumption as a function of negative externalities.
It's made to the highest standards of finish Patek Philippe can muster (which is saying something) and it's delightfully uninterested in impressing anyone other than a knowledgeable owner, which in this day of luxury goods whose main value is their utility in conspicuous consumption is especially charming.
The evolutionary challenge for a fiddler crab is to produce a conspicuous semaphore that retains its utility as a formidable weapon (the problem of how to design a "beautiful weapon"; [ 10]).
Thorstein Veblen observed way back in 1899 that dogs' "value to their owners lies chiefly in their utility as items of conspicuous consumption".
Not that it was very secret: the Americans had acquired the building through a shell company in Panama, engaged in highly conspicuous and unusual construction work, and asked the electricity utility to wire the building up with an American-style 110-volt power supply.
A conspicuous disparity persists.
Conspicuous consumption is out.
