Sentence examples for was still conspicuous from inspiring English sources

Santorum doesn't have a hotel to promote, as Donald Trump did in staging an announcement for his endorsement of Romney, but this move was still conspicuous for being done in the dark.

Alternative comedy is supposed to be anti-racist, and even though racist jokes have largely been eradicated, black performers and punters are still conspicuous by their absence.

Yet discredited faces from the old government are still conspicuous in the new administration, though many had hoped it would bring real reformers to power.Hope still flickers, however.

While there had been a "striking increase in the incidence of cancers of modern societies" including lung and cervical cancer, they reported, there were still "conspicuous deficits" in breast-cancer rates.

Nottingham Forest may be only three points off the relegation zone, they may have triumphed only once away in the league this season, and they may have dropped two points against Queens Park Rangers in a game they should have won, but the cries of "Platt out!" are still conspicuous by their absence.

Despite the aging society and the connected increase in demand for health services which in principle accompanies it, the German hospital market is still conspicuous for its overcapacities [1].

The baskets on chloroplast surfaces became diffuse but the small loops containing mitochondria were still conspicuous (Fig. 2d).

In plants, it is not higher than the peaks for phase 0 introns between positions 20 and 40, but it is still conspicuous against the relatively intron-poor region between positions 3 and 20.

For all her efforts, she was still as awkwardly conspicuous as those pallid, withered Westerners who came to India to find spiritual peace and caught dysentery instead.

There was still the concoction of conspicuous excess and the celebration of success.

The original immense Barking Power Station (1925 81) is still a conspicuous landmark.