Sentence examples for for the conspicuous from inspiring English sources

They also did not know, they said, what accounted for the conspicuous rash.

But she insists she has no time for the conspicuous consumption of other home-grown multimillionaires.

For the conspicuous consumer, there is the athletic performer: speed, accuracy, volume and all the musical equivalents of tail fins and whitewall tires.

The idea that a private school is directly responsible for the conspicuous success of its graduates is as wrong as the idea that a troubled public school is directly responsible for its students' failures.

The austere fashions of that time, often in black or white, coincided with the styles of an earlier economic downturn, and a desire to repent for the conspicuous consumption of the 1980's.

For the conspicuous consumer there is $40-a-bottle 40-a-bottle 40-a-bottlein containers decorated with Swarovski crystals, and for the guilty consumer there is Ethos Water, which helps support water projects in poor countries.

The G2/M checkpoint is one of the conspicuous targets for anticancer drugs.

It turns out that introducing this delayed effect has considerable qualitative implications for pricing the conspicuous good.

Among 17th-century artists, the use of the precious blue ultramarine pigment was rare and reserved for the most conspicuous parts of the canvas.

Well, partly because up to that point I'd only had eyes for the more conspicuous charms of a girl called Beth.

However, it soon became apparent that for the most conspicuous sex difference associated with the SNB that of motoneuron number the site of hormone action was unlikely to be the motoneurons themselves.