Sentence examples for to become conspicuous from inspiring English sources

The idea being that they'll be eager to become conspicuous consumers.

But, as the complex mechanisms of power typically used to suppress victims begin to become conspicuous and fall apart, that will start to change.

When our habitual way of engagement with the world is disrupted, we become conspicuous to ourselves.

A complete biotic inventory for an area is essential to recognize invasive species before they become conspicuous by the damage they inflict, and to recognize that species previously present are gone before their absence has follow-on effects.

As officials in nearby states — including New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts — have become conspicuous converts to the current antitax, antigovernment fever, Mr. Malloy and Connecticut Democrats are striking a more anomalous course, betting that residents will accept the short-term pain of tax increases if they see a long-term gain of stable government services and fiscal policy.

Suddenly, small-scale marijuana purchases and the like, mainly overlooked to spare an overburdened penal system, would become conspicuous.

The title comes from Martin Heidegger, one of the last century's pre-eminent philosophers, and refers to tools or materials that have somehow become conspicuous in their uselessness; it could also be taken as a cynical definition of art.

Recently the mismatch between our newly acquired capacity to synthetize DNA at genome scale, and our low capacity to design ab initio a functional genome has become conspicuous.

But thanks in part to shifting demographic patterns, Bangladeshi immigrants have in the last few decades become conspicuous among those who lovingly restore the chocolaty facades that define brownstone Brooklyn.

You want enough kids to have fun and cause havoc, but not too many so you become conspicuous.

But wives have become conspicuous by their absence; the public no longer expects them to stand by their philanderers.