Sentence examples for conspicuously less from inspiring English sources

Think Norma Desmond, grade B sitcom style, a decade younger, and conspicuously less grand.

But other than his admirable stewardship of The Washington Post, he has done conspicuously less to aid humanity than have many other tycoons, even those who command far less wealth.

The other performances are at best adequate, and conspicuously less than that in the cases of Robert Clohessy, as the preening actor married to Ms. Nelligan, and Michael Mantell, as a transvestite who worships the hem of Nina Foch.

All that furious activity must have helped him distance himself from Pembleton -- enough, at least, to allow him to play another homicide detective (albeit a conspicuously less fearsome one) in Gregory Hoblit's ingenious time-travel movie "Frequency".

But as useful as Iraq undoubtedly has been as a rallying cry for jihad, it has been a conspicuously less prominent rallying point, at least in terms of men and money.

It's there that a 21-year-old actress who sometimes goes by Jane and sometimes Tess (Dree Hemingway) lives with her Chihuahua and two conspicuously less intelligent human roommates in an apartment building so anonymous it might as well be a motel.

Architectural Record deemed it "conspicuously, tragically less than the sum of its parts".

It also relies less conspicuously on electronic distortions and displacement.

Less conspicuously, he has been taking advice from Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's hatchet-man.

Those "other countries" consume wine as a normal daily beverage (and less conspicuously so) than Americans.

Less conspicuously, a table in the upstairs hallway displayed a collection of family photographs.