An inconspicuous urban underclass lives in squalor.
Most of the time, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a bland, greenish insect that lives an inconspicuous life, shunning other members of its species and flying only by night.
"You felt almost ashamed to look at them," he writes, "for they led such quiet lives, as if inconspicuous or invisible".
The tears and the love flowed freely for this simple person who had lived such an inconspicuous life and there could not have been a more appropriate ceremony to mark his death.
While difficult to measure and tackle, these inconspicuous effects of the drought on the lives of thousands of Malian children are something that require urgent attention from the international community.
Most lived instead around Migosi, an inconspicuous sector of the belt of housing outside the original planned city – but, unlike the rest of this belt, not designated as 'slum' by UN Habitat.
We downed it quickly and ran off trying to look inconspicuous, and giggled nervously about the ridiculous laws we lived under in New York, not like London, liberal, lovely London, Albion at its very best.
The Syrians who have remained at home fear for their lives, she said, and prefer to remain as inconspicuous as possible.
Art and culture arguably touch people's lives more frequently, and in ways both obvious and inconspicuous, than politics.
These are the ones worth living by, or maybe just tattooing on an inconspicuous part of your body that won't get you in trouble with your mom.
