Dramas like "Scandal" and "Empire" had proved that shows with black protagonists could generate both ratings and chatter on "Black Twitter," but they were old-fashioned "adult soaps" whose characters were conspicuously bigger than people actually are.
The Wicker Tree conspicuously lacks big names, though Lee, 89, makes a cameo reappearance.
That seasonal explanation for a sluggish venture investment climate seems comforting on the heels of a muggy July and August that were conspicuously bereft of big exits.
For on a continent conspicuously short of big-science icons to inspire budding scholars, SALT may possess the greatest star power of all.
There was no obvious pattern of the satellite being conspicuously smaller or bigger than the primite.
Little Bush and Big Time were conspicuously missing.
But a big group was conspicuously underrepresented: the delegates who had nominated Mitt Romney for president.
In the sports arena, professional football and basketball players kneel conspicuously to pray after the big game.
But there is, and for two reasons: to offer a platform for classically trained dancers of colour, particularly women, conspicuously absent from Britain's big ballet companies; and to provide role models for a rising generation of talented kids.
If the aim is truly to create a National Care Service, one word is conspicuously missing from the so-called Big Care Debate launched by the health secretary Andy Burnham – "tax".
