Some species of butterflies, such as the Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria, minimise their shadows when perched by closing the wings over their backs, aligning their bodies with the sun, and tilting to one side towards the sun, so that the shadow becomes a thin inconspicuous line rather than a broad patch.
They were largely inconspicuous figures in a powerful but largely inconspicuous job, running the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
Luckier that the nouveau-poor, like the middle-aged man dressed in an Armani suit, a bit threadbare at the elbows and shiny at the seat of the pants, who tries to look inconspicuous waiting in line at the Koumoundourou Square soup kitchen for his daily meal.
If you ask Jesse Aizenstat, who recently completed work on a documentary about drug smuggling in northern Mexico called "Baja Smugglers," his answer runs along the lines of inconspicuous, rugged and capacious.
This scenario would explain why also all hemizygous T2 sibling plants of these lines were inconspicuous and showed no abnormal segregation.
Once regarded as a stalwart engine of predictable growth, Newell long benefited from an expansive line of relatively inconspicuous products that weathered the ups and downs in consumer spending through much of the 1990's.
Either way, they probably should've been a little more inconspicuous when sneaking weed across state lines.
Its 30 selections were chosen from among some 352 assembled transcripts, and while Ginsberg always insisted that his responses be published without line-by-line revision (of course), Carter's larger abridgments are both inconspicuous and cunning.
Although squaring off against local rivals New Zealand may seem an inconspicuous start, a brief glance at the line-up instantly conveys the importance of the series.
It took some work, but I figured it out and I quietly added an inconspicuous "he said" to one of the lines of dialogue.
At first Flandrensis was an inconspicuous district, but beginning in the 9th century, a remarkable line of Flemish counts succeeded in erecting a quasi-independent state on the borders between the French and German kingdoms.
