Sentence examples for conspicuously hard from inspiring English sources

Might they provide the men and women on the ground who are so conspicuously hard to find in government service?

The characters have two sides — one human, the other, superheroic — and Whedon has worked conspicuously hard to lend their Marvel-ous attributes dramatic density and symbolic resonance.

In the same long-winded breath, Samsung is trying hard, perhaps conspicuously hard, to prove itself as an original innovator, giving a brief history of its past achievements.

After supposed reforms in 1986 and 1996, it became conspicuously harder for migrants to come and go on a seasonal basis; therefore they stayed and, at great hardship and cost, brought their families.

On the other hand, "Die Hard" resists, conspicuously, the cinematic stereotype of violent black villains (1988 was the year when George H. W. Bush won the Presidency by using a repellent attack ad linking his opponent, Michael Dukakis, to a black convict named Willie Horton).

Now, as the director of the action comedy "Keeping up with the Joneses," Mottola has been dealt a comic hand that leaves him bluffing, and huffing and puffing; his actors doubtless worked hard, but Mottola conspicuously worked harder, laboring mightily behind the scenes to bring the film's mismatched parts to a strained semblance of antic life.

But now she's back with another book of stories, reclaiming a stage so conspicuously empty that it's hard to assess her new work in isolation.

U.S. officials have taken note of other actions by hard-liners which appear to be conspicuously timed to disrupt the deal.

Making it harder for the boss to consume conspicuously risks dangerous anarchy as, bereft of its symbols of corporate status, the firm's hierarchy collapses into a muddled heap.

And yet amid all this, Barnett is both conspicuously Australian – in tone and in subject matter – and hard to dislike.

It is unnecessary to take any moral view about his almost crazed infidelities, but it is hard to believe that any man so conspicuously incapable of controlling his own libido is fit to be trusted with controlling the country.