Sentence examples for in which conspicuous from inspiring English sources
"But this recession has an added element to it in which conspicuous spending — bling — is out of fashion".
Minnesota's exceptional acknowledgement of the public importance of the arts was supposed to forestall this crisis, of course; it was part of a culture in which conspicuous displays of wealth, compared to New York and other international cities, were always muted.
Questions of class and sympathy are touchy ones these days; more than a century after these books were written, a one-percenter like Wharton invariably reads as the product of a long-dead era, one in which conspicuous wealth could pass without judgment.
The arrival times of the P- and S-phases were selected for events in which conspicuous P and S arrivals were observed and their hypocenters were determined.
Prendergast didn't paint in a large scale but his oil, "Lighthouse at St . Malo from 1907 done in a charming almost primitive style in which the conspicuous brush strokes of Impression are enlarged.
I missed the window in which such conspicuous food consumption would have just been background noise in a cheap apartment; I never really got to be a gross bachelor until after it was, if not transgressive, then at least a strange act of independence.
The seminal text explaining the class struggle behind fashion is Thorsten Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, which offers two key motivations for the codified and competitive manner in which we dress: conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption.
Together they created something highly unusual - a 1960s-set movin in which nostalgia is conspicuous by its absence.
An aspiring novelist in a rigid social order in which women of conspicuous intelligence are frowned upon, she is willing to take her chances.
The smeared model predicts relatively simple behaviour, in which the only conspicuous features are associated with coincidence effects with the two types of structural wave allowed by the partition model, and internal resonances of the air between the panels.
Nearly all the triumphs that make him so dread a figure in the Senate date from a period in which he held no conspicuous office.
