Sentence examples for conspicuously worked from inspiring English sources

One group were conspicuously worked upon – and while the labour that went into them wasn't really their subject matter, I doubt that many viewers will not have thought something like, "How hard would it be do that?" The other group will have provoked a similar question – "How hard can it be to do that?" – but with a crucially different intonation.

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.

In the last big building boom, in the mid to late 1980's, most developers conspicuously avoided working with celebrity architects for fear that they would take too big a piece of the pie, insist on building with expensive materials and create structures that would repel apartment buyers.

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.

(I did think that the Shaw was long, worked rather conspicuously at resuscitating and answered more questions than the Recording Angel itself might want to ask).

The movie's multifaceted plot works conspicuously superficial variations on the themes of hypocrisy and corruption, starting with the deteriorating state of Romeo and Magda's marriage.

(This is a series of cuts that kick in when a budget deal is not reached. It was designed to be so painful that the two sides would have to reach a deal but so far it has conspicuously failed to work).

They are most conspicuously the work of a legendary scene painter, James Perry Wilson, the Raphael of the animal diorama.

For a while the WPA had a large number of painters conspicuously at work painting everything in the way of fences, gratings, etc.

Mr. Pfeiffer not only borrows from commercial sources, he also uses the history of art, most conspicuously the work of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol and the contemporary British artist Steve McQueen.

Conspicuously few works address the current reality of airport security and surveillance; those that do, like Kendell Geers's "Security Blanket," made of gleaming industrial-strength padlocks, are rather oblique.