Sentence examples for conspicuously expensive from inspiring English sources

During my interviews with officials in Conakry, I spotted more than one conspicuously expensive watch; in the Guinean fashion, the watches hung loose on the wrist, like bracelets.

And the newly somber national mood, coupled with an economic downturn, bodes ill for a herd of conspicuously expensive new cars coming from Bentley, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce and others.

The curb appeal was instantaneous: massive (and conspicuously expensive) dark-walnut entry doors, high-contrast outdoor lighting and, in an audacious touch, glass-paneled retractable garage doors that open onto a stone patio for warm-weather dining.

Certainly, it is easy to feel protective towards good old Blighty after spending a few days listening to aloof Eurocrats utter Eurotruisms inside a building dotted with conspicuously expensive modern art.

In contrast to the spectacularly florid decorative arts of the European Baroque and Rococo eras, whose flashy forms and conspicuously expensive materials served as a kind of propaganda for church and state and as unearned trophies of aristocratic privilege, the works in this exhibition have a quality of aesthetic and philosophical self-containment.

What is conspicuously expensive is money.

Notice if she has a great deal of make-up and conspicuously-expensive (not just somewhat nice) fashion accessories, car, or other items.

Some electrical shavers can be used with water or lather; these will be cordless, conspicuously marked, and expensive.

In the boom years, the so-called soft sections of London newspapers grew fat on articles about ever more expensive goods and services geared toward the conspicuously consuming masses.

Elite families compete most conspicuously on this decision, as they jostle to hire the most expensive heritage hotel or palace in India, popularly in the cities of Udaipur and Jodhpur.

The United States Congress's website got an expensive new facelift this week, but access to its incredibly valuable data was conspicuously absent.