Sentence examples for my conspicuous from inspiring English sources

The other thing which must be said is that I had to learn to make myself disappear in these landscapes, which wasn't easy, given my conspicuous height.

If I am in the mood, I'll scoot across town to a PATH station so I can taunt New Jersey commuters with the sight of my conspicuous consumption of New York smokes.

"Hey, wealthy ladies!" Fittingly, it's Mitt Romney's lavish lifestyle that gets fun poked at it here, as the governor sings: "Check my conspicuous consumption … I got distinguished hair, and a private jet that flies me way up in the air …" The parody aims to highlight how out of touch the presidential candidate is with middle-class Americans through some pretty spot-on visuals.

Usually, sorrow is spoken of in terms of absence, and it springs up this way in our idioms: "the missing piece," "a hole in my heart," "conspicuous by its absence," "empty nest," "empty-handed," "empty inside".

I keep my blazing in the street to a minimum, I'll go to lengths to hide it when kids suddenly appear in the part of the park I've co-opted, and when my potheadedness is conspicuous like it was today, traversing Manhattan lit as a daisy and rocking a Cannabis Cup shirt, I'm making more of a conscious choice to broadcast my passion rather than being an oblivious stoner.

Standing in the preserved food aisle I feel highly conspicuous wearing my backpack swung around my front, with the camera peeking out the top.

Here was my chance to go to "China" again, and as often as I wanted, without looking conspicuous with my camera, as I did as a Westerner in China proper.

The irony was that what I had on my head made me conspicuous -- it suggested I should be bold and dangerous -- the antithesis of my nervy nature and propensity for tears whenever my (ginger) mother left me at the school gate.

My first sighting of conspicuous Republican nostalgia for Mr. Clinton was in March, when Ben Stein, the former Nixon speechwriter and host of TV's "Win Ben Stein's Money," praised the president in USA Today for showing "a lot of heart" by sending top administration officials to the funeral of his father, the G.O.P. economist Herbert Stein.

Perhaps this is unfair on my part, but the conspicuous political act of publicly expunging that stain – as if it would somehow 'undo' the crime – feels uncomfortably like a self-serving gesture, a way of drawing a line under an embarrassing period in our history and moving on as though everything were fixed.

Indeed, far from extolling any particular route to understanding, my book explores the conspicuous variation in what has counted, and what continues to count, as an explanation of biological development, and roots that variability in the differences in epistemological culture that contribute to the growth of scientific knowledge.