L. 10.75 6); that language is learnt in context (Lucretius 5.1028ff); and that linguistic expressions of natural languages are clearer and more conspicuous than their definitions; even that definitions would destroy their conspicuousness (Usener 258, 243); and that philosophers hence should use ordinary language rather than introduce technical expressions (Epicurus On Nature 28).
Roman Abramovich, the best-known oligarch not in jail, has conspicuously set new standards in buying mansions, ski resorts and soccer teams.Veblen revisitedFor the already rich, strategies such as splashing out on ever bigger houses, longer yachts or getting special treatment from luxury-goods firms does not contribute much marginal conspicuousness.
But the conspicuousness of the pattern also means that the company has little control over how it is seen, or on whom.
What has changed, in "Queen of Earth," is the conspicuousness of Perry's virtuosity: the images are of a difficulty level, an intricacy, and a precision in visual composition and performance alike, that link his ambitions and talents to the refractive opacities and cinematic atonalities of such classic modernists as Michelangelo Antonioni and Alain Resnais.
He disliked his own conspicuousness to himself, whenever he was out in the world expensively costumed.
At any rate, the air was by no means clear, and one of the more controversial English players — a mid-field man from Manchester United, toothless and contact-lensed, Nobby Stiles by name, and a favorite of Ramsey's — swept himself into conspicuousness by jumping the gun on the Argentinians and tackling so recklessly that it was clear he had decided to do rather than die.
It is, paradoxically, a consequence of conspicuousness; he is invisible because no one, black or white, can see beyond everything they project onto the color of his skin.
I asked Dangin if the conspicuousness of the retouching was a failure on his part.
If brokers' signs were allowed, the town might look, from the right distance, like a giant and very expensive tag sale, and the sudden conspicuousness of so much supply, in a time of slackening demand, might shatter a range of illusions best epitomized by the risible listing prices.
Although people are most familiar with the brilliantly coloured poison dart frogs, and for that reason, might assume that most frog species are colourful, in reality, conspicuousness is not a very common trait in amphibians.
The evolutionary benefits of conspicuousness contrast sharply with the team's findings for the evolve chemical defences.
