Sentence examples for receive conspicuous from inspiring English sources

Mr. Norton is not the only prominent collector of new art to receive conspicuous attention lately.

His colleagues in the Senate avoided him; his speeches on the Senate floor were delivered to a near-empty chamber or were received with conspicuous displays of inattention.

He notes that the "honesty" of the signal is tainted from the outset by "the immense political and social machinery mobilized by the movie studios to promote their products" and because actors often receive Oscars for "conspicuous dissembling --that is there's an immense gulf between what they're honoredissembling --thatn the screen andissembling --thatises are like.

Poets began to work freelance, receiving from patrons a conspicuous honorarium.

This was a rebuke to the very academy bestowing the prize: Affleck failed to receive a directing nomination for "Argo," joining "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow as the evening's most conspicuous snubs.

At 8.04pm, an agent using the conspicuous alias Vandango007 received an email setting out the details of his deployment.

In the pool Ye received loud support from a conspicuous contingent of athletes and officials, who had come bearing flags and rattles.

Socially adept, politically well-connected, phenomenally ambitious and a dandy, he received state and church commissions and attracted conspicuous private patrons.

He was later awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for "conspicuous gallantry in action" and received the Military Medal for bravery the following year during the Battle of Passchendaele, The Third Battle of Ypres.

He received the Military Cross in March 1918 for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty", and also won the Air Force Cross later that year.

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