Hours before the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 50 years ago, pedestrians on their way to work scurried past the Petersen House, across the street from Ford's Theater, its conspicuous sign proclaiming it as the "house where Lincoln died".
When using its own web to catch other species of salticids, P. fimbriata conceals its conspicuous palps, which it does not do when stalking a web-spider or occasionally a moving fly.
It is used in navigation because of its conspicuous place in a sky region otherwise lacking in bright stars.
But the vanity of Iñárritu's style, its conspicuous striving after effect, achieves the opposite result — it dematerializes the production and disembodies the performances, calls attention not to the rigors of the shoot but to the extraordinary care and handling, the extraordinary industrial equipment, that went into maintaining the actors and their well-being in inhospitable conditions.
Unarguably PG, it'll be too intense for very young viewers, but its conspicuous filth – bugs and bric-a-brac below ground, pustulence and privates-scratching above it – will likely enthral older, muckier pups; set it against the shiny blandishments that have passed for family fun this season, and it starts to look vaguely radical.
Some of their trouble is sexual, some of it comically ribald (as regarding the use of the toilet and its conspicuous gags likening the defecator to Rodin's "The Thinker"), and some of it violent — the sexual aggression in the shower, and a woman's remark that her lover had stabbed her four years earlier.
Its conspicuous presence prompts a question: Why would you open an Eataly here?
Its conspicuous failure to catch one of the world's most wanted men stirs their pride.
For instance: Every home has its Conspicuous Collection, near the fireplace or in the wall unit.
It is said that Robert's condition kept Joseph at home, filling his work with its conspicuous longings for elsewhere.
