conspicuousness

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• “Eyes Wide Shut” meets abandoned mansion horror flick for the conspicuous consumption set

• Mounting your monitor on an arm also makes your space easier to clean, and the result is an undeniably sleek and integrated look without the bulky, conspicuous factory base.

• Despite these conspicuous failures, climate change too is now being described with the rhetoric of warfare.

• In terms of design, the skull core of the equipment was made from single sheet bronze, while the conspicuous apex was made separately and then tightly riveted to the main helmet.

• Used primarily for ventilation purposes, this conspicuous aperture also allowed the entry of rainwater, which was then collected on the floor-based cavity known as the impluvium and then passed on to the underground cisterns for household usage.

• The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.

• For Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.”

• Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites.

• As recently as a few years ago, buying and driving a hybrid was an exercise in conspicuous consumption.

• It was a dizzying time, and Shaquille handled an array of new situations with conspicuous aplomb.

• The doctrine of international free trade, albeit the most conspicuous of its applications, was but one case under the general law.

• Here was none of the old-time stiffness of Capheaton, and there was a conspicuous absence of dead masters and their pupils.

• The movements which its active motion causes among the corpuscles render it conspicuous.