The various strands of the story get resolved clearly enough, but the moral questions are all left conspicuously open.
In the end there is a 10th victim — but just who it is and how are questions Petri leaves conspicuously unanswered.
While the regime mercilessly bombarded rebel-held areas in major cities like Homs, reducing many of them to rubble, Alawite neighborhoods were left conspicuously untouched, their citizens urged to carry on some semblance of their normal lives.
Even though a full watering can had been left conspicuously nearby, only one of the kids — a girl — managed to work her way to the floating option, and this was after a great deal of prompting.
The teacher and her colleagues persuaded their supervisors not to make students with a score of one stand up, but those students were still left conspicuously sitting down, she said.
A training squadron drawn from the most secretive counterterrorism units fielded by the United States and its NATO allies watched as the Afghan commandos stormed and cleared a three-story office building that was left conspicuously unfinished — the kind of structure favored by insurgents.
Chinese millionaires, for example, are developing a list of what they might call the "Five Essentials": a Mercedes-Benz, a cellular telephone, a Rolex or Rado gold watch, a Western suit with the label (in a foreign language) left conspicuously on the sleeve -- and now a bodyguard.
Most, he added, leave office conspicuously wealthier.
Maybe I'm crazy, but economically speaking, it seems like the human desire to get high, and a lack of available products that fulfill that desire, leave a conspicuously large gap in the market, and that gap is sometimes being filled by this toxic waste.
Some teachers routinely disappeared from class, leaving tests conspicuously on the desks to be copied, they said.
On the other hand, it is perplexing they have fixed various areas of the team yet left themselves conspicuously short and vulnerable elsewhere, particularly with the over-reliance on Rooney, and there can be no doubt Pedro's move to Chelsea has stung United's supporters when it was only last Friday that Van Gaal was talking about him being precisely the kind of quick, penetrative player he needed.
