Sentence examples for i'm conspicuous from inspiring English sources

I'm conspicuous with this big camera, and people are curious, especially today when nobody is using cameras like these.

At once shining Hector lifted the helmet from his head, and placed it, gleaming, on the earth; then he rocked his beloved son in his arms and kissed him, and prayed aloud to Zeus and to the other gods; "Zeus, and you other gods, grant now that this child too, my son, will become, even as I am, conspicuous among Trojans, likewise skilled in courage, and rule Ilion in strength.

Whether it was accent, attitude, or the appearance of receiving basic nutrition for most of our lives, Bhai and I were conspicuous enough on this bus to get pulled off at a random stop.

"It's power, it's affluence, it's conspicuous consumption.

From the welter of magazines offering increasingly detailed guidelines to fashion as practiced by the editor's five best friends, i-D is conspicuous because, Ms. Sui added, "other magazines are self-promoting, whereas with i-D, you don't have to be in the clique to find out that, O.K., you don't wear pants this year, or O.K., everyone's in underwear".

The second question concerns the Muslim Brotherhood who, I repeat, were conspicuous in their absence during the uprising but of whom nothing indicates that they will not attempt to hijack it after the fact, like the fox in La Fontaine's fable.

Originally, he says: "I thought, 'Well, I can treat this successfully and if my hair falls out [which it did] I'll wear a wig during the fifth season – and I won't even have to share with anyone that this is happening.' But I thought it would be conspicuous if I showed up (at the awards) without eyebrows, and so I made an announcement.

I'm less conspicuous than the iBook brigade, cluttering up London coffee houses and pubs with their flashy technologies.

So I'd come in and I would just take off my layers of clothes one at a time and throw them on the floor—I'd stand there, I'd been running because I'm late, so I'd be panting, and I'd try not to be conspicuous, and people would watch me.

But, I point out, he is conspicuous by his absence from public debate, from the writer-as-commentator position occupied by novelists such as Ian McEwan or Martin Amis or, in her essays, by Hilary Mantel.

But in cases of great shortening, or where the resistance is conspicuous, I believe it would be dangerous to actually operate with a tension which is extraordinarily great, in order to obtain an immediate lengthening of the tissues, sufficient to remedy the shortness of the limb.