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.
Yet amid all that heartwarming sentiment as Ian Holloway's team played manfully and just failed to stay in the billionaires' league, it always seemed that last season Owen Oyston and his family, who own the club, were conspicuously not spending modern football's great promotion windfall, but banking it.
Its characters are conspicuously, aggressively pre-modern; they are people from an age when the entertainment world hadn't yet filled their domestic space or their imaginations, and performance, play-acting, singing, and dancing were a greater part of their daily life.
Researchers extracted DNA from the bone and reported Wednesday that it differed conspicuously from that of both modern humans and of Neanderthals, the archaic human species that inhabited Europe until the arrival of modern humans on the continent some 44,000 years ago.
The modernity of the modern cinema takes place in many dimensions — most conspicuously, in the image and in performance.
What's left is small science--3 significant SETI programs, modest scale of modern SETI was conspicuously in evidence at Harvard's Agassiz Station observatory [in] last October when they threw the switch that started the Billion-Channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay, or BETA.
What's left is small science--3 significant SETI programs, modest scale of modern SETI was conspicuously in evidence at Harvard's Agassiz Station observatory [in] last October when they threw the switch that started the Billion-Channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay, or BETA..
Franco, who led the Nationalists to victory in the country's civil war, is conspicuously absent from public discourse in modern Spain.
But Cohn is himself being unfair when he sweepingly denounces "the principles of modern conservatism" for being "conspicuously short on... comfort or hope".
