Sentence examples for conspicuously bad from inspiring English sources

Dictatorships are conspicuously bad at complex problems.

Mr Callaghan was a conspicuously bad chancellor of the exchequer, a plodding home secretary and an undistinguished foreign secretary.

So we will be left to rely increasingly on governments for the creation of our wealth, something that they have always been conspicuously bad at doing.

The company is feeling the effects of a series of bad investments, most conspicuously its minority stake in the troubled French media conglomerate Vivendi.

Plopped into this grand setting is 800, a brick affair about the color of yellow mustard gone bad with a conspicuously false limestone facade slapped onto the bottom five stories — only on the Fifth Avenue side.

(Ferrell was perhaps here inspired by Curb Your Enthusiam's bad-taste race comedy, but conspicuously lacks Larry David's self-loathing that helps him get away with it).

But with Mr Mori's own Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) conspicuously unreformed, the mandarins suddenly do not look quite such a bad lot after all.However, the reshuffle has brightened things up a shade or two in Nagatacho, Tokyo's political district.

It's only too bad, given the talent involved, that the design looks so conspicuously factory-made.  .

The fable is inserted conspicuously, as a personal statement, almost as if it were a confession, and it's a bad story for a man to use as a parable of his life, since it's a disclaimer of responsibility.

Luck isn't a bad proxy for what the current Times series labels "class". It's a theme U.S. politics conspicuously avoids.

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