| 单词 | conspicuous |
| 例句 | The conspicuous austerity of the announcement was matched by its calculated simplicity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the most conspicuous difference was the books. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Stuffing them into her pants pocket, she headed toward to the basement entrance as fast as she could go without looking conspicuous. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Though if she was trying not to be noticed, she probably should have picked something less conspicuous. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cadillacs, secondhand and new, conspicuous among the cars on the streets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less conspicuous. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z In Britain, Parry’s Brahmsian lead was followed with conspicuous success by Edward Elgar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We then switched to the black tennis situation in South Africa and, in particular, the conspicuous lack of champions of Arthur Ashe’s calibre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the world, they used whatever bathroom had the shortest line, whatever bathroom was closer, or whatever bathroom was least conspicuous. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Even across the length of the crowded hall, Viserys should have been conspicuous with his pale skin, silvery hair, and beggar's rags, but she did not see him anywhere. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Dead and dying insects of various species were conspicuous for about two weeks after the treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Kids like Shea were used because they were less conspicuous, and less likely to be stopped by police officers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In it were Henry’s books—not as many as you might think—and a single bed, and very little else, except a closet with a large, conspicuous padlock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For that reason the dull noise was not quite so conspicuous. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice had no conspicuous actor’s mannerisms, but it was rather excessively vibrant; it “carried” implacably when he had no interest in controlling it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z There are two soft thuds, then a louder one, and then conspicuous silence. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z That’s been put on him, for the trial, even though they gave up wearing those years ago, when the sect wars first began; cassocks made them too conspicuous. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The grain of truth in them, on the other hand, involved Washington’s quite conspicuous embodiment of authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She thought that maybe we’d unwittingly outed them, arriving from the South Side with a housewarming gift and our conspicuous dark skin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed frightened and ill at ease, and somehow Jane and Michael realised that the two huge sisters were wishing that they were much smaller and less conspicuous. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z She ducked through the hordes of partygoers and shucked off the conspicuous horsehair cloak, letting it trail behind her, then allowing it to drop and be trampled by the crowd. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Jeanne points out that there's no use tramping over fields instead of on the road, since in the fields we'll be equally visible—and more conspicuous. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There was no place, really, that he could poke his head out and not be conspicuous. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the others, including the kitchen, in which the bathtub was the largest and most conspicuous object, were almost nonexistent. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But despite his aversion to money and conspicuous consumption, Chris’s political leanings could not be described as liberal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Wedged between a column by the Home Extension Service and a chopped-off ad for garden hoes, there was a small but conspicuous headline. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z For him, as they moved forward in a group—trying not to be too conspicuous about passing other groups ahead of them—he felt more like he was on a constant downward slide into despair. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “We don’t have much time, but we need you to wash up and change into something a little less conspicuous.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “A woman would be conspicuous, Elinor! You’ve seen for yourself—there are never any women in the streets at night. Only the guards. Ask the boy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Every so often she tied a bit of red cloth to a clump of grass or around a conspicuous stone. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A magpie, seeing some light-colored object conspicuous on the empty slope, flew closer to look. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was almost impossible to overlook, in fact, if only because he was a chatterbox and a prankster and he made himself conspicuous. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The trademark Adams style might be described as “enlightened perversity,” which actually sought out occasions to display, often in conspicuous fashion, his capacity for self-sacrifice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Three or four can travel quickly and aren’t conspicuous: and the Chief Rabbit of this warren would be less likely to object to a few strangers coming with a civil request.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The difficulties are more conspicuous when the problems are very hard and complicated and the facts not yet in. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A man, a fox—even a rabbit—coming over the down would be conspicuous. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceiling extends far above my head, the light cast down by a cluster of those same electric lamps, conspicuous in their constant glow. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There was some light applause from the crowd and a conspicuous lusty cheer from the back of the tent that could only have come from a clump of my brothers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Although a servant would probably not have a mount of any kind, at least the toad is less conspicuous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I put the knife away—the invading Dauntless weren’t carrying them, and I don’t want to be conspicuous. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z And Bai Shan and I were conspicuous enough in class. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt conspicuous, older than all of them and so far behind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "I promise," I said in a loud, conspicuous voice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z She wants to argue with me, but her presence is conspicuous, and I'm not budging. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There were so few of us minority kids at Princeton, I suppose, that our presence was always conspicuous. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I was somewhat conspicuous because I was the only person not wearing a coat of some kind. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I had had enough narrow escapes by then to know that it was best not to be conspicuous, not to stand out, not to make myself a possible target. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His men were everywhere, conspicuous in their striped goat's hair sashes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was as conspicuous a warren as could well be imagined. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up my towel, left the store, and started my altogether less conspicuous walk back to the inn where I had found breakfast and a bath. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was dismayed, for I would have preferred to stay in a less conspicuous third-class hotel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But new kids always felt conspicuous, he reminded himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead of chitchatting or gossiping or sharing tricks of the trade, they shift in their seats and cast rather conspicuous glances at the girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It would be weirdly conspicuous if I didn’t cross-dress at least a little bit today. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The huge dinosaur couldn’t cross the river with them—it would be too conspicuous to ride around Brooklyn—and there was no way to go back into that nightmare. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At such a time of night, one's footsteps descending the back staircase are bound to be conspicuous and no doubt they were responsible for arousing Miss Kenton. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The nervous Particles are in full Operation, & the Spirits agitated, with conspicuous vaporous Disordering in the whole of the Pulmonary Apparatus & the Arm. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z With the feeling that he would be less conspicuous inside than hanging about on the pavement, he stepped through the doorway. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Reynie was painfully aware of their eyes upon him—he already felt conspicuous. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But in time, something in Seabiscuit’s demeanor—perhaps a conspicuous lack of sweating in the workouts, perhaps a gleam in the horse’s eye that hinted at devious intelligence—made Fitzsimmons question his assumptions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We were at the school now; Rosalie’s red convertible was conspicuous in the parking lot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was aware that his home phone was tapped and his house watched by comically conspicuous security men, who would sit for hours in the front seat of a parked car with the motor running. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then there are the new badges of high-end consumption that may be less readily conspicuous but no less potent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z By the very attempt to evade notice, he had brought on himself the conspicuous place of last. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The detectives felt as conspicuous as one of Matsika’s police cars with its siren blaring, but to normal people they would have passed like shadows in the gloom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Effie Trinket, conspicuous in a bright pink wig and tailored outfit, travels with me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The most conspicuous such examples are the failure of both farming and herding to reach Native American California from the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That he spent a good deal of time asserting his own vision of the exposition’s landscape is also beyond doubt, especially his belief that the Wooded Island should remain entirely free of conspicuous man-made structures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And outside of the cocoon of Maybeck High School, being conspicuous wasn’t always a good idea. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Meetings of the High Organ, general members’ meetings, and meetings of Ulundi were generally not broken up unless they were too conspicuous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One had already been plowed and the polished edges of the furrows caught the light with a dull glint, conspicuous from the ridge above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the largest, most conspicuous ones find ways to conceal themselves in time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking here on the streets, I feel conspicuous in my mountain clothes, but I guess I’m not. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The famous politician had his hat off and was waving it wildly and his white hair was flowing and bobbing, conspicuous, distinguished. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I began to feel conspicuous and took the road to my mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Their entrance into Diagon Alley could hardly have been more conspicuous; for a moment Harry wondered whether it might not be better to leave now and try to think of a different plan. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z A wedding band shone conspicuously on one pink hand; he had a conspicuous smell of after-shave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His golden fur was soon darkened by the rain and plastered close to his body, making him smaller and less easy to see, but all the same he was horribly conspicuous. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to go down there if we’ll be making ourselves conspicuous. But on the other hand, it does seem rather callous, don’t you think, to just go home?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z To learn that they contain chlordane or dieldrin one must read exceedingly fine print placed on the least conspicuous part of the sack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But the rest of the queen’s men were conspicuous in their absence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I asked them that, they said that they didn’t kick you out, you’d just decided to “relocate” until the baby was born and you weren’t so “conspicuous.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There is still the conspicuous asymmetry between molecular biology and, say, the therapy of lung cancer. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For us, the main effect of the comparison is to make the cool, formal quality of Manet’s figures even more conspicuous. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It evaporated the moment he noticed the conspicuous lack of officers at his shoulders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Stripped now, half-naked, we did not look conspicuous, being no more indecent than many of the slaves who labored in the fields around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Despite their cover as trappers, the Dregs were still a conspicuous group. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The fifth-grade boys, bursting with new importance, ordered the fourth graders this way and that, while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being conspicuous. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He looked around, feeling conspicuous on the empty bridge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with them making out right there and the bowling ball being so conspicuous, I still wanted to take a picture of it all. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Cora’s lack of a response to the information was conspicuous. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They tossed some of it around so it wouldn’t look conspicuous. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But these days evangelical students like those in Havens’s prayer group are becoming a conspicuous presence at Brown. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Now I do not doubt that Mr Neighbours had good organizational skills; he did, I understand, mastermind a number of large occasions with conspicuous style. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later I’m parking my mom’s conspicuous Mercedes in front of the Idle Hour. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Far away, in the busy multitude, I saw a flash of red hair, the conspicuous line of muffled throat and black greatcoat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Around the time of his fourteenth birthday, with all the pressures of church and home uniting to drive him to the altar, he strove to appear more serious and therefore less conspicuous. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Luckily it was a noisy audience, full of children, and her excitement wasn’t conspicuous. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had harvested the most conspicuous and abundant animals of the farm fields, Mole led her to more distant fields. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Hardly less flattering had been the attentions paid her by conspicuous individuals. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of its location in Jackson Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the tower will be all the more conspicuous. Design for Obama library and museum off to surprisingly somber start 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z This is a baggy and drifting yet mostly tart book of conspicuous intellectual consumption. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But this odd “Rescue Rangers” menagerie is surprising and eclectic, with some niche nods and deep-cut references, which is fitting given the conspicuous insignificance of the material and its heroes. ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: Remember Them? (No?) 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It is fast becoming London's, and the country's, most conspicuous monument. The Shard: A symbol of towering ambition 2011-01-30T00:05:57Z His first term wasn’t easy for Hollywood, representationally; the most visible evidence for this seeming paralysis was the whiteout that descended over the 2011 Oscars, where African-Americans were conspicuous only by their absence. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z LaChiusa brings these elements together smoothly, but the show's lack of an overarching flow grows conspicuous, especially in the incongruous finale, in which Sadie seems to believe she starring in "Gypsy." Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z His research often entailed firsthand field work, as when, in pursuit of conspicuous consumption, he became a passenger on one of the last flights of the Concorde. David Rakoff, Award-Winning Humorist, Dies at 47 2012-08-10T15:50:38Z Some mine whimsical humor from the weirdness of that juxtaposition—see Paul Auster’s meta-novels or Adam Thirlwell’s “Lurid & Cute,” due out in April—but the technique can easily become as conspicuous as a bald spot. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Slippery cadences blend funk with ideas from around the globe; flashes of conspicuous historical memory meet a tenacious futurism. March in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But that’s one of several puckish tunes — the cowboy-lament-turned-hoedown “One More Angel in Heaven” is another conspicuous instance — that are played with a raw energy and busy-ness that nearly wipes out the comic flavor. ‘American Idol’ stars are no match for the tech in ‘Technicolor Dreamcoat’ 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The pandemic, which wreaked havoc on so many small businesses, freed up storefronts and briefly lowered rent costs, helped Blank Street expand with conspicuous speed during its first year. It’s Not Just You — Blank Street Coffee Is Suddenly Inescapable 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Somehow, the differences between his class background and Marianne’s are more conspicuous in Dublin than at home. ‘Normal People’ Review: Their Love Will Tear You Apart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The tension improves the song; it’s about contention, not just conspicuous consumption. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z "Our people are traveling on these little roads, and they're going by the cover of night so that they're less conspicuous," Thompson said. Nonprofit helping Ukrainian orphans, foster families escape country 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Maybe it’s an aftereffect of spending 18 months in enforced isolation, but introspectiveness was a conspicuous feature of this edition of NYMD. How New York Is New York Fashion? 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But the one person conspicuous by her absence was Diana, who died in a Paris car crash in 1997. Prince William pays tribute to Diana at wedding 2011-04-29T12:26:58Z Even the distribution of this year’s major awards, after last year’s Eilish sweep, felt overly conspicuous. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Everything about the film has been faulted, even its enthusiastic embrace of flamboyant conspicuous consumption, an ethos, nay, a philosophy, that often inspired little more than indulgent chuckles in the past. Film: Un-Innocents Abroad: The Drubbing 2010-06-02T22:04:00Z Its arbitrary and conspicuous omissions do the larger church little service, for it aligns the show, and the museum, with the dogmatic tradition of Catholicism rather than its rich, exuberant and open intellectual tradition. ‘Picturing Mary’: Filled with highlights but flawed in its omissions Some of the satire is lame, including a sketch on American conspicuous consumption. Eurepica. Challenge ? review 2011-07-22T17:38:50Z She began filing articles about food, frugality, conspicuous consumption and her impassioned crusade for public schools, turning the last into a well-reviewed multimedia opus, “Mother on Fire.” For Sandra Tsing Loh, Change is Good 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The only thing conspicuous by its absence is Bill Ward's drumming. Black Sabbath: 13 – review 2013-06-06T14:29:01Z He wears the bag to sweat off calories, but it’s also a conspicuous metaphor for a life that has been outwardly trashed. Movie Review: ‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ Directed by David O. Russell 2012-11-15T20:57:57Z The devil is not conspicuous in the collage-assemblages of Adimando, who works at the Rhode Island School of Design, his alma mater. In the galleries: The devil is in the details in an exhibition filled with symbolism 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “Shake It Up” seems to anticipate this—note the conspicuous “and Pop” on its cover—and, for the most part, successfully sidesteps rockism’s pitfalls. The Trouble with Building a Rock-Writing Canon 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z We don’t need to concern ourselves with how poor Calvin Harris, until recently Taylor’s most conspicuous male photography companion, is taking the news. Hail Twiddleswift! Not the super-couple we deserve, but the one we need 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This was the most conspicuous sign that there was something very off about Kurniawan’s collection. A True-Crime Documentary About the Con That Shook the World of Wine 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z I asked why she didn’t try a less conspicuous vehicle. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z The conspicuous absence of a camera in the mirror. When trolling crosses dangerous lines: This writer’s selfie transformed into a terrorist portrait shows how far online abuse can go 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In a blog post on Dec. 6, Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, went further, saying that such a law should require companies to “place conspicuous notice” where the technology is being used. Taylor Swift Said to Use Facial Recognition to Identify Stalkers 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Even mooring your yacht on the Thames is conspicuous in that it is far removed from the south of France where all the other yachts are.” Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z The Serbian Orthodox Church mostly turns a blind eye to the conspicuous chapels since many owners are also big benefactors. Eastern Serbia's bungalow cemeteries 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z The data analyses, however, indicate that, although such collectors may be conspicuous, they are not yet commonplace. Barbarians at the Art Auction Gates? Not to Worry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Rewatching it, the McNulty-Will-Kill-Again swerve stands out a bit less as a conspicuous drop in standards, perhaps because fabrication has gone mainstream. When good TV goes bad: how The Wire lost its spark 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Want a story of power, greed and conspicuous consumption? Critic?s Notebook: Books to Bury Yourself In 2011-05-26T22:07:19Z Unlike other kinds of reporters, the TV kind are especially conspicuous members of the news media. TV news crews are increasingly threatened with violence on the job 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Carrie dons this traditional attire to appear less conspicuous when sneaking out of the U.S. 'Homeland' recap: Carrie takes control of besieged CIA station 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Right now, it sounds reasonably conspicuous to record with Google Glass–you have to issue a voice command or touch a button on the rim. Bloody Visions: What Would the Boston Bombing Look Like in the Google Glass Era? 2013-04-17T17:27:55Z “In an era when superfluous adornment was condemned as a sign of sin, Jews were required by law to wear conspicuous jewelry.” We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z For “a fairly conspicuous woman,” as Millay once called herself, her mature diary is notably impersonal. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Nick, a self-described “anarchist of the left,” is nervous about money, and it is Meg who manages to turn conspicuous consumption into an act of rebellion. Movie Review: Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan in ‘Le Week-End’ 2014-03-13T14:29:45Z But Cook’s most conspicuous influence is Prince, whose “1999” album Cook credits as the impetus for his foray into music. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But because each of the artist’s handmade beeswax lengths hangs the same distance from the ceiling, the incline beneath the geometric grouping becomes more conspicuous. Review | In the galleries: Paintings reflect light’s luminous effects 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Acts of conspicuous charity were plea-bargains supported by requiem masses or future memorials, before it was permitted to receive God's grace, or to face the fiendishly inventive demons of a Hieronymus Bosch bestiary. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z Much as he did in the raucously entertaining original film directed by Henry Hathaway, Rooster enters on his best behavior, seated in a courtroom amid a fog of cigar smoke and conspicuous lies. | 'True Grit': Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge 2010-12-21T23:00:16Z Finally, the sweetbox is in flower, perfuming the air, and the hybrid hellebores are a quarter grown and full of conspicuous blooms in rose pinks and mauves. Kick-start your spring garden 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet the conspicuous trend, many funeral directors say, is toward cremation, which has spawned an entirely new set of choices. What’s That? You Want to be Buried How? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z This is not the larger, more conspicuous garden that occupies the corner of 70th Street and Fifth Avenue. Critic’s Notebook: Frick Collection Returns to Square One, a Prized Garden Intact 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z "I was feeling a little conspicuous because people were staring at me," Border said. Extreme coupon cutters save cash, teach their ways 2011-07-07T13:10:27Z So far, however, it remains conspicuous by its absence. Terrence Malick fishing film rumoured to have reeled in Ben Affleck 2010-08-13T12:02:00Z Ruth is conspicuous and liberated, Douglas a constant source of head-scratching. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z Lowery doesn’t burden the film with a wide range of cinematic references, but the other conspicuous one is the evocation of François Truffaut’s 1970 historical drama “The Wild Child.” A Wondrous Remake of “Pete’s Dragon” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z He was a conspicuous bidder on big-ticket works at marquee contemporary auctions. Art World Wunderkind Arrested Months After Fleeing the U.S. 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Looks like this under-the-radar neighborhood is about to get a whole lot more conspicuous. Bermondsey Bites: Hip New Eat Streets Emerge in London 2011-12-01T14:10:00Z He has a slight speech impediment and an overemphatic manner of inflection that are rendered all the more conspicuous by the dentist’s-drill whine of his voice. Adam Sandler’s Misused Comedic Art 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings made process conspicuous and within a decade his influence was epidemic, especially in three dimensions. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But the sounds, while not new to experimental music, have conspicuous character and their mellowing out into charismatic melodic shapes signal hope, as does a more regulated percussive pulse. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Pop-culture and television are overdue in shifting their nostalgic gaze in this direction; America’s ’80s fetish remains on conspicuous display in “Stranger Things,” “The Goldbergs,” “The Americans” and so much else. Review | It’s nice to see the ’90s instead of the ’80s, but ‘Everything Sucks!’ is as clunky as dial-up 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z In the mecca of conspicuous consumption that is the Super Bowl, Madonna – the most material of all the girls – was right at home Sunday as the queen of halftime. Madonna sells, sells, sells at Super Bowl halftime 2012-02-06T00:37:00Z And if that's not the perfect souvenir of a night out with a true poet of conspicuous consumption, I don't know what would be. Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z A chunk of that drama of conspicuous consumption — good, bad and indifferent — is now on view in Fort Worth. The shock, critique, theatricality of '80s art, on view in Fort Worth 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Notice the conspicuous absence of children in this video. Switch Is the Dream Console Nintendo's Been Working Toward for Years 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The decade it belonged to was flush with wealth worship, class striving and conspicuous consumption. How ‘MTV Cribs’ Rewired My Brain, and Maybe Yours Too 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z What is most conspicuous is a persistent tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté and personal authenticity. Art Review: The Allure of the Homespun in the Maw of the Digital Age 2010-09-02T21:48:00Z After the controversy surrounding 2005's Live 8 shows, where African acts were conspicuous by their absence, Fifa should have known better, especially in a country where even "creative workers" have their own trade union. Fifa's World Cup kick-off concert 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z It was the days before bottle service, and the Tunnel was also a place for the elites of rap to scale the heights of conspicuous consumption. Peter Gatien, the ’90s ‘Club King,’ Wants His Final Say 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z And the Brits are conspicuous in the best documentary category, with nominations for Exit Through The Gift Shop, Restrepo, and Waste Land. Academy award nominations: Colin Firth goes forth with his royal tale 2011-01-25T20:19:21Z Carpenter – the elfin organist with peaked quiff, half-shaven head, tight white trousers and hoody, conspicuous biceps and puppy heels – charmed infinite variety from a digital organ. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z As followers of this week’s news cycle may have noticed, Higgins stumbled upon a more conspicuous way of making his Jewish fellow citizens uncomfortable on Wednesday. Clay Higgins’ Auschwitz video and reality TV’s takeover of American politics 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Could anyone else fully appreciate its overstated opulence and conspicuous consumption? Scene Stealers: Robin Leach Rolls on in Las Vegas 2014-04-18T19:22:28Z The chiefs and their wives and children are icons of conspicuous consumption. T Magazine: In Lagos, the 1% Takes Stock 2014-04-25T17:00:01Z No longer are they all stage directors; a conspicuous subset rose through the ranks as administrators and producers. Doors Open for Women and People of Color at Top Ranks of American Theater 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z I'd written a few years earlier predicting their demise as they were eclipsed by mobile phones, but they still seemed to be covetable objects of conspicuous consumption. Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z You are so conspicuous that it’s like first contact – you’re the alien. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z Coming in at No. 2 was a very conspicuous butcher knife, taken at Tri-Cities Airport in Tennessee. TSA shares 'Top 10 Most Unusual Finds' of 2019 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The chief hallmark of his playing was a conspicuous lack of schmaltz. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Theirs was certainly the most conspicuous wisp of conflict of the night, and that is unusual. The TV Watch: Master of Ceremonies, Not Civility 2011-01-17T05:43:03Z The attempted theft of a vial of infectious blood is a major event, a catastrophe involving explosions, poison gas, even a bomb in a crowded market, that causes conspicuous damage and leaves victims. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Likewise, his starting point of 1954 makes sense, but there's room for a much longer view on the history of class and conspicuous consumption. Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System by Harry Wallop – review 2013-01-18T09:01:01Z Vikings and Norse mythology are conspicuous by their absence. Scene and heard: Necromantic rock 2011-02-02T12:47:08Z There was enormous social pressure to engage in what is obviously a folly: to begin adulthood by lying, by making up fraudulent histories, by pretending that you’re independent, by grotesque and unoriginal conspicuous consumption. Your wedding's been cancelled by the coronavirus lockdown? Good 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z As a woman, Wiener felt both conspicuous and invisible, valued for her contribution to “diversity metrics” while her “soft skills” were simultaneously exploited and derided. ‘Uncanny Valley’ Charts a Tech Pilgrim’s Progress 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z MoMA, for example, lacks a Hartley German Officer painting, a conspicuous hole in any account of American modernism. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Thompson is correct that certain kinds of conspicuous consumption, especially when they suggest snobbery or cruelty, no longer confer status in the sense of “love from the world.” Money Can’t Buy Happiness. It Can’t Even Buy Status, a New Book Says. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The majority of your colleagues need the work; those who behave nonchalantly are the conspicuous ones, the high earners, and Pappano is indeed dealing with an entire generation of such flakes. Debate: have modern opera singers got the wrong attitude? 2013-03-16T18:00:02Z Crowe’s script is airtight, his enthusiasm in realizing it is conspicuous, and his messages are irreproachable. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z And they're nowhere to be seen on the list of nominees for tomorrow night's Brit awards, conspicuous by their absence from the international breakthrough or international group categories. Grammys 2011: Why can't Lady Antebellum find success in the UK? 2011-02-14T14:08:35Z And ever more so in an age of Instagram, he told me recently, when conspicuous consumption plays out in real time, making the objects we choose to keep seem even more personal. Souvenirs 101 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Each list suffers from an enthusiastic overestimation or two, as well as a few conspicuous omissions. The best music of 2016: YG, Beyoncé, Maren Morris and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z It eventually made him a conspicuous target as America headed into World War II and the single-minded promotion of a nativist art was a little too close to the aesthetic dictates of Fascism. Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The Founder tells the story of Ray Kroc, a name that may be as unfamiliar as his the double arches of his fast food empire, McDonald’s, are conspicuous. True Stories Coming to the Big Screen This Holiday Season 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Wine bottles are conspicuous on the beach or the tennis court, after all. Read this before you drink wine from a can 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z If liberalism doesn’t commit substantial and conspicuous energy to restoring the labor movement, it will lose all hope of reclaiming a legitimately disaffected working class. If Liberalism Is in Crisis, Who’s to Blame? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The voices of the central characters, the football players and coaches themselves, are conspicuous by their scarcity. Punishingly profitable 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z In Taylor Sheridan’s movies, motorized vehicles are conspicuous. In “Wind River,” Taylor Sheridan makes another new-looking western with a traditional spirit 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Stylistic links between the two groups were less conspicuous, even when Harrison cranked the tempo for “All About Waiting,” the penultimate encore. Review | Dhani Harrison stakes out his own sound 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In the 11 years since the first Blair Witch, the expected camcorder imitations have been conspicuous by their absence. Commission us: 'found footage' ? the discovery that disappeared again 2010-10-14T10:21:00Z Her manner is chirpy, her look best described as regal-businesslike: brown hair tied back, black boots and trousers, a pistachio jacket worn over a high-collared white blouse with a conspicuous gold necklace. Mary Elizabeth Winstead: from scream queen to alcoholic in Smashed 2012-11-29T16:57:00Z For something as blindingly conspicuous as the brave, bold print, it certainly has enjoyed a long run on the catwalks over the past 10 years. The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z The first single from “Sweetener” was “No Tears Left to Cry,” a conspicuous pivot. Ariana Grande Sails Above Sorrow on ‘Sweetener’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Further demonstrations of gaudy, conspicuous extravagance — such as the construction of a fabulous jewel-encrusted castle — convince the sultan that here is the right husband for his daughter. Review | How ‘Aladdin’ came to be: Thank (or blame) an 18th-century French scholar 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z This is 4 World Trade Center, the least heralded and least conspicuous of the buildings on the site. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-29T14:58:23Z For all their scrupulous efforts to make the hosts seem as real as possible, it’s explained, the designers could never get the hands right, leaving conspicuous ridges around the joints. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z There isn't much conspicuous consumption around at the moment. David Mitchell: 'Sarkozy has the only plane in which you can make Yorkshire puddings' 2011-07-30T23:05:53Z If, on the other hand, to your eyes conspicuous consumption varies little in form and spirit from century to century and always looks a little gross, you’ll be less impressed. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z Nonetheless, even many independent films depend on more than emotional and practical connection to the actors’ and filmmakers’ lives—they also involve cinematic artifice, whether conspicuous or camouflaged. A Few Thoughts About British Actors Playing American (and African-American) Roles 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Johnny is supposed to join them but he’s a conspicuous no-show. 'Boardwalk Empire' recap: Chalky and Nucky out for revenge 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Though the suspected connections between the two biggest rap murders have largely proved inconclusive, the hazy details of each case are too conspicuous to ignore. The 7 Most Mysterious Hollywood Deaths 2011-11-21T17:40:17Z Among the cultural institutions Levine subjects to critical scrutiny — libraries, museums, concert halls, opera houses, public parks — colleges and universities are conspicuous by their absence. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z But some of the most popular TV shows of last year are conspicuous only by their absence. Bafta TV awards to honour Doctor Who, Clare Balding and Michael Palin 2013-05-10T17:55:56Z Pole dancing figures in more than one song; so does the assumption that what all women want besides his prowess is conspicuous consumption. New Music: New Albums by R. Kelly and Parmalee 2013-12-09T22:29:43Z As dance historian Janice Ross writes in her illuminating biography, “Like a Bomb Going Off ,” a grateful Plisetskaya praised him as a “daring master who rejects even the least conspicuous clichés in art.” ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The point is cleverness and looking cool, though, mostly the movie is about Ritchie’s own conspicuous pleasure directing famous actors having a lark, trading insults, making mischief. ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The artist was the architect George Gilbert Scott, whose composition became London’s most conspicuous Gothic Revival building after the Houses of Parliament. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z This juxtaposition suggests other ambiguities, of black men performing, even in daily life, a conspicuous role for public consumption. The Experimental High Notes of “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Still, a new attitude toward gender equality, and the abuse of power, has been conspicuous throughout the festival. Cannes, Where Weinstein Reigned, Reckons With #MeToo Fallout 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z A monument to conspicuous consumption, it was filled with an endless catalogue of objects purchased simply because the Vanderbilts could buy them. An Immigrant Named Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z “But it contributed to her demise. She drew ire because she made herself a conspicuous fashion plate.” The Next Big Thing in Fashion? Big Things 2014-04-23T22:56:50Z One needs to see a conspicuous difference between his wealth and another's lack thereof. Documentary suggests sky not falling after all 2011-03-10T01:59:52Z It coincided with the ever more conspicuous absence of the President’s wife, Melania, who hasn’t been seen in public for nearly three weeks, following a hospital stay. Kim Kardashian Meeting Donald Trump in the Oval Office Is a Nightmare We Can’t Wake Up From 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z There’s a conspicuous recessionary logic behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s two marquee spring-summer exhibitions, one devoted to , the other to American fashion. Small Shows at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-08-05T22:21:00Z One other pleasure afforded by Mr. Seinfeld — whether through his wealth or the influence and control that he exerts — is a conspicuous lack of the product-placement, commercial-tie-in ethos that taints so many online series. Watch List: Jerry Seinfeld’s Online ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ 2012-08-03T22:56:06Z It is a marvel that the French want anything to do with a holiday meal so completely predicated on conspicuous consumption and performance anxiety. How not to cook a Thanksgiving turkey 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z I tried to act conspicuous while waiting for the theater to open — hey, look at me, on assignment! — but no one I knew passed by. From ‘American Sniper’ to ‘Macbeth,’ a Reporter’s Moviegoing Spree 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The movie also pays conspicuous attention to the other neighborhood wildlife, including a scary bat that invades the kitchen and frogs that pop up in a toilet. | 'The Tree': A Tree That Shelters Animal Life and Maybe Even a Dead Parent 2011-07-14T23:23:22Z Amid these temples of conspicuous consumption are two of Miami’s newest museums, right next to each other, and both free. 36 Hours in Miami and Miami Beach 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The faceted fly’s-eye surface of the artwork refracts the faces of a crowd representative of the core Los Angeles art world — everyone who matters in the arts is here, with one conspicuous exception. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z But Gibney's documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks is first out of the gate – though the central subject is conspicuous by his absence. WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m' 2013-07-09T18:00:04Z Four years ago Ms. Atkins, now 32, had a splashy entrance into the music world, which meant that her stumble was especially conspicuous. Musical Survivor Hustles for a Second Chance 2011-02-08T21:54:19Z Throughout that career, he tried to maintain a parallel one as a singer, recording for half a dozen labels, capably but without conspicuous success. Hank Cochran obituary 2010-07-21T17:43:00Z Nearby, fellow honoree Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was slightly less conspicuous in a pinstripe suit. | MoMA Garden Party 2013-05-22T22:12:27Z For the overwhelming majority of the paying operatic public, Thicknesse's caricature of "considerable sections of the audience" as "socially ambitious" and "conspicuous spenders" is grotesque and even offensive. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z Dressed in a beige suit and stripy tie, the prince cut a conspicuous figure among the T-shirted teens and middle-aged men dressed in tutus. Prince Charles goes to Glastonbury 2010-06-24T19:02:00Z “A father, conspicuous only by his absence, who left an unfathomable void in my life. A pronounced taste for reading. A certain sexual precocity. And, most of all, an enormous need to be seen.” ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The cups-and-bags initiative was met with predictable snark from various corners of the Internet, not to mention more serious criticism for its conspicuous lack of Mexican-American or other Latino authors. Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z To become Edna, Humphries would put on a mauve wig, an increasingly rococo pair of eyeglasses and a glittering gown that screeched conspicuous consumption. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Then Rodwell moved it to Christopher to make it more conspicuous and central to the gay community. Greenwich Village, Storied Home of Bohemia and Gay History 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Authenticity is conspicuous only by its absence in the tinny revival of “The Real Thing,” which opened on Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater. ‘The Real Thing,' With Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Opens on Broadway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z As New York City Ballet opened its spring season at the David H. Koch Theater on Tuesday, one man in the audience stood out in a conspicuous disguise of fedora and sunglasses. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z In Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and beyond, a conspicuous number of women writers are using fantasy, horror and the unfamiliar to unsettle readers and critique social ills. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Sometimes you can spot him by how great he always looks, and sometimes by how tastelessly he’s thrown together a mishmash of conspicuous status symbols. How a new ‘Ted Lasso’ character nails the obnoxious soccer-icon style 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Quite a few were, though one conspicuous absence was 12-tone or even sharp angularity. Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z The ENO orchestra sparkled and music director Edward Gardner conducted fervently, with a conspicuous belief in the score. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Mr. Matthews, 41, is a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who is as low-key as his bombastic younger brother, Spencer Matthews, star of the British reality TV show “Made in Chelsea,” is conspicuous. The Not-Quite-Royal Wedding: A Guide to Pippa Middleton’s Big Day 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “He embodied the American Dream to them. Excessive conspicuous consumption is not a bad thing in New York to a lot of people.” How Liz Smith invented Donald Trump 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z The book also mentions the three young women known as “Odierno’s Chicks,” conspicuous members of the general’s intelligence staff. Books of The Times: ‘The Insurgents,’ About David Petraeus, by Fred Kaplan 2012-12-26T23:24:35Z Rarely performed outside Italy, Verdi's 1846 work is suddenly — well, not everywhere, but nevertheless a conspicuous presence on the American opera scene. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z Later, he takes Diana shopping, keen to get her into something less conspicuous on the streets of first world war London than a miniskirt, bustier and cloak. Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins: ‘People really thought that only men loved action movies’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He wears a conspicuous wig and a hangdog expression, and if you look up pictures of the real Thaddeus Stevens you will see that both are precisely historically accurate. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z Its conspicuous presence prompts a question: Why would you open an Eataly here? Heads Up: In Rome, a New Branch of Eataly 2012-07-19T21:31:36Z “Tomboyland” delves into the idea of violence in unexpected and fascinating ways, though the violence of Whiteness is mostly unexamined, which feels especially conspicuous considering her connection to formerly indigenous land. Review | Melissa Faliveno’s ‘Tomboyland’ essays offer funny, moving explorations of self and society 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Rice, now 25, has been conspicuous by her absence from our TV screens since winning the show but, according to her website, is considering doing "possibly a fitness or health DVD". The end is nigh 2009-08-26T10:59:00Z The more difficult beast is the daffodil because the foliage on larger varieties is conspicuous for so long and spends its time slowly flopping, splaying and revealing open and ugly centers. Lingering leaves of a chilly spring 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Architectural Digest: How did you evoke the conspicuous consumption of the era? The Sets of 2013-12-23T05:00:00Z Quinquin, like many of the other characters, has conspicuous physical deformities that are never explained or even mentioned. ‘Li’l Quinquin,’ a New Mystery by Bruno Dumont 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z In it she plays the matriarch of a fake family, sent to suburbia to hawk face creams and golf clubs and other totems of conspicuous consumption. Sabattical Done, Demi Moore Returns 2010-04-16T23:12:00Z It's a tribute to the potency of O'Rowe's writing that dramatic action isn't – as per so much monologue theatre – conspicuous by its absence. Terminus ? review 2011-04-05T17:31:17Z I sauntered over, climbed in and dropped the hardtop to complete the moment of conspicuous consumption. Car of the Week: 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 550 2012-05-18T21:19:12Z His is a career notable for its few missteps, but this means they're more conspicuous. David Morrissey: 'Acting gave me a life' 2012-11-09T17:00:01Z "In the 1990s it was conspicuous that huge stars appeared on Sziget, but the whole festival genre was new in Europe then," he said. Hungary's Sziget festival gets boost from Glastonbury founder 2012-07-30T15:29:54Z But something about its lavish detail and conspicuous expense evoked, for me, the recent excesses of the Wild Wild East: Moscow bling nonpareil. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z Local references worked in places you’d think they wouldn’t: jerk pork with gnocchi in a creamy sweet pea purée being the most conspicuous, and satisfying. | Eating in Barbados 2011-12-08T17:44:29Z The most conspicuous difference is the bright blond actress portraying Sally, a role imperishably created for the Roundabout by Natasha Richardson. Theater Review: ‘Cabaret’ Opens, With Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams 2014-04-25T02:00:02Z The practice speaks of old-fashioned connoisseurship, not conspicuous or speculative consumption. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z In Veblen’s mind, conspicuous consumption was spending more money on items than they are really worth. Half a billion on Halloween pet costumes is latest sign of America’s out-of-control consumerism 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Under the unctuous tutelage of local merchant Monsieur Lhereux, Emma, who has a weakness for personal vanity, discovers the joys of conspicuous consumption. 'Madame Bovary' lovely but as constrained as Flaubert's heroine 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Their absence is a sign of a deeper problem in the book: there is a conspicuous absence of physical and emotional intimacy. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z But the biggest and most conspicuous absence is homes. Finding the American Ideal in Queens 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z There’s a conspicuous concentration of quality at 19 East 66th Street, where both David Tunick and Simon Dickinson have shows, and Thomas Williams and Andrew Wyld of London are elegantly encamped at Dickinson. 2010-01-29T06:18:00Z Another conspicuous exception: “China Doll,” a new play by David Mamet, which grossed a whopping $1.2 million in seven preview performances. Halloween Week Scares Away Broadway Audiences 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But, whether you're a Goldman Sachs executive engaging in conspicuous consumption or a playgoer on a budget, people are spending money on Broadway. There's no business like Broadway's: lessons in ticket pricing from New York 2011-01-17T12:02:54Z Huge and colorful, Krasner’s canvas got a magnificently conspicuous spot, while a smaller, dimmer work by Pollock, her celebrated husband, hung opposite on a more crowded wall. Review: Lee Krasner Gets the Upper Hand in ‘Pollock’ 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Test the effect where it’s less conspicuous before you commit to tackling the whole surface. What to do about a scratched stainless-steel cooktop 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Over the decades, he’s indulged in all the predictable conspicuous consumptions, including human-growth hormone and testosterone. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Made in 1958, “Anticipation of the Night” was conspicuous by its absence in the two excellent Brakhage compilations released several years ago by Criterion. Elusive Vampire Film Steps Out of the Shadows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Like most group shows, this one provokes that curious reflex that causes you to pine for the conspicuous omissions. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z In fact, nearly every nationality, other than Belgian, was conspicuous by its absence among the knowledgeable crowd at the Independent preview. Brussels Art Week Expands at a Tricky Time 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The most conspicuous is the muffling of Mr. Turner, an actor of wit and charm, who is here required to be witless and charmless. | 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever' : ?On a Clear Day You Can See Forever? at St. James - Review 2011-12-12T03:01:02Z But is any of that really a cause for such a conspicuous outpouring of schadenfreude? Sinead O'Connor's latest shocker: Not being 20 anymore 2011-08-10T18:59:00Z The components of the music are often cyclical, but it’s rare that a Battles track goes for more than 10 seconds without some conspicuous change. Review: On ‘La Di Da Di,’ the Latest From Battles, Momentum Is a Driving Force 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z He was shooting on 35 mm rather than in large formats; he disdained the tripod, abjured conspicuous lighting. The Disappearing World of Wolfgang Tillmans 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z This is the only way I can explain why I perused each celebrity’s current advice columns for conspicuous consumption and, much to my shock, found some items that in 2023 seem . . . reasonably priced, comparatively speaking. From Goop to Oprah, this year's gift guides may signal the end of the world 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z After I spent several minutes of conspicuous loitering, two Taiwanese tourists pointed at my lower half, giggled to themselves and requested a picture with me. T Magazine: A Leg Man 2011-03-10T16:00:01Z Perhaps most conspicuous — remarkably and hearteningly, given that Blanchard is straight — they both involve queer male protagonists, and their struggles with traditional conceptions of masculinity are part of their heartfelt charm. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Though there was one conspicuous absence: Sammy Davis Jr. was asked not to attend, lest he ruffle feathers over his recent marriage to a white woman, actress May Britt. Inauguration performances weren’t always so contentious: Highlights from the last 75 years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z While there are dozens of games about space marines, mercenaries and guitar playing, cowboys are conspicuous by their near-absence in gaming. Nick Gillett's top 10 games of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:43Z Back in the day they were also a form of conspicuous consumption: some cost $700 or more. Celebrating the Stereos of the Street 2010-10-15T15:45:00Z He is not an advocate for social media in its present form, and is no fan of conspicuous consumption. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z With an army of briefcase-carrying bankers marching across the stage in a parade of conspicuous consumption, Purcarete brings Swift's satire into the 21st century. Gulliver's Travels – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-19T15:58:15Z If Richard Griffiths was one of the most conspicuous beneficiaries of this policy, then, my goodness, he paid back their artistic largesse 50-fold. David Hare on Richard Griffiths: Effortlessly breezy, impenetrably dark 2013-03-29T16:54:00Z As hacking and Russia’s relationship to the Trump campaign increasingly dominate headlines, Mr. Camp’s refusal to dig into the story is conspicuous. An American Comic on a Russian Channel: What He Avoids Speaks Volumes 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z This exaggerates its bulk, making it into a single conspicuous object. Outcry over Glasgow School of Art extension 2011-02-25T19:22:40Z Inflation, fears about climate change and growing concern about waste and conspicuous consumption are driving a new interest in frugality. How Will We Eat in 2023? Here Are 10 Predictions. 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z It is unclear if this will be enough to salvage a film that has already become of 2019’s most conspicuous box office disasters. Box-office flop "Cats" gets a re-release 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z It was a vice that went charmingly with all that conspicuous virtue. Modern Love: Romance, the Ultimate Souvenir 2012-09-07T00:15:52Z The telling details that overrun the sweeping narrative of “The Irishman” are all the more conspicuous, all the more thunderous, when watching the movie at home. Watching “The Irishman” on Netflix Is the Best Way to See It 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Black just states the obvious, underscoring what the lines and actions have already made conspicuous. | 'Peep World': Things Fall Apart When a Family Gets Together 2011-03-24T21:13:04Z It doesn’t, though, not really, and he is saying something by making two gay lovers the story’s most conspicuous embodiments of neocolonialist excesses. ‘The Forgiven’ Review: When the Haves Dispose of a Have-Not 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The local artist doesn’t idealize the female form, and her technique also celebrates imperfection: The figures slump in various ways, and a few have conspicuous cracks. In the galleries: Works on paper at Marsha Mateyka Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This is an apt image for an art fair, even if a fair’s only conspicuous killer effect is to raise the world’s quotient of junk art and the prices paid for it. Frieze New York, a Visual Circus Under the Big Top 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z There is so little conspicuous display of emotion that it takes awhile to learn that a tragedy has taken place. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Times Square is also a selfie nirvana, the ultimate tribute to conspicuous consumption and the epicenter of the city’s vital theater scene. Bypass congested Times Square for a more satisfying New York City experience 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, for them, conspicuous displays of Transatlantic flourish provide a subtle professional and social benefit. Noted: Americans Are Barmy Over Britishisms 2012-10-10T20:37:21Z She's fascinating to watch and as fearless as her fellow performers, but her halting command of English is too conspicuous to overlook or intellectually rationalize. Cate Blanchett brings an extravagant fierceness to 'The Maids' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z And that’s what makes its absence and erasure from the show feel so conspicuous. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In her Black neighborhood, he is That White Man; in his boardinghouse, she is a conspicuous “colored gal,” and their first date is a humiliating disaster for Jack. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Another objective of the picket line, though, is to shame the agents of power with the picketers’ conspicuous discontent and, through that display, to gain public sympathy and support. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z “Where is our leader?” he asks, in an extended, sometimes halting monologue that never mentions Mr. Trump by name but addresses only a conspicuous “You.” As Images of Pain Flood TV, ‘Where Is Our Leader?’ 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The first and most conspicuous beneficiaries of this effort were the Hutu refugees, including among them many of those responsible for ordering and carrying out the genocide. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z “An obsolescent subgenre,” he declared, with conspicuous relish; a “naïve” little form, as outmoded as its cheap effects, the table-tapping and flickering candlelight. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Julia Briggs usefully pointed out that Wells may have planned to travel from Paddington to Plymouth to take one of the transatlantic liners across the Channel – less conspicuous than the usual routes. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z "It is a conspicuous problem," she said this weekend. It's a man's world… but why is sexism ingrained in the arts? 2013-03-24T00:06:27Z However, Goop is far alone in constructing merry gift guides tilting toward eye-popping conspicuous consumption. Breakfast with giraffes? Goop’s ridiculous holiday gift guide makes Oprah’s look downright re... 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Grudin argues that had the Twin Towers been less conspicuous, they may not have been targeted by Al Qaeda. Heroes and Villains in the Pantheon of Design 2010-04-25T13:50:00Z Mr. Thompson frets about hip-hop’s future, now that only “conspicuous consumption and conspicuous charisma” seem to matter. Books of The Times: Questlove Publishes His Memoir, ‘Mo’ Meta Blues’ 2013-06-25T22:04:39Z To him, the mods' conspicuous consumption was a form of defiant working-class aspiration, while to another early mod, Steve Sparks, it was spawned by art school beatniks. The A-Z of Mod by Paolo Hewitt and Mark Baxter – review 2012-06-01T10:00:01Z “Everyone at the Met is taking selfies anyway, it not even conspicuous anymore.” he said. What do Blac Chyna and Hillary Clinton Have in Common? Face-Swapping 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Tough also identifies another type of stratification that is less conspicuous but perhaps more consequential: not the inequities between the students, but rather the growing inequities between the institutions themselves. Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Young people who left when "Friends" went off the air are the most conspicuous of all the viewers who fled NBC. Broadcast audience aging faster than population 2010-08-16T11:07:00Z The tremendous expansion of the art market over the past half-century has been naturally accompanied by countless Moses-type critics, denouncing its spectacles of conspicuous consumption and calling for moral and political corrections. Art Review: Hyman Bloom’s Rabbi Paintings at White Box 2013-08-29T22:07:24Z Wherever he goes, Darwan, conspicuous in his turban, faces possible harassment. Review: ‘Learning to Drive’ Charts a Culture-Bridging Friendship 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z That was already a threat in the time of Stillman’s youth and was even more conspicuous when he made the film, twenty years later. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Washington’s subtle verbal performance includes one conspicuous flourish, an accentuation of the “H” in “white”— “I love hwite America,” he pledges—which is apparently enough to enchant the awful fraternity. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Zacarias seems to know this, and she has some conspicuous tricks up her sleeve. Lure of telenovelas drives Arena’s ‘Destiny’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z The police are conspicuous by their relative absence. Easy Money – review 2013-07-18T20:30:01Z Yet McQueen is living proof of an artist who became successful despite a conspicuous lack of opportunities. Steve McQueen on the Oscars whitewash: ‘I’m hoping we can look back and say this was a watershed moment’ 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The taping of the episode ran two hours, and the edits to get it down to size were conspicuous. Review: On ‘Late Show’ Premiere, Stephen Colbert Tries to Bring Big Back to Late Night 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Internet use has developed in ways that have normalized self-absorption and conspicuous consumption; our society’s feel-good relationship with the internet has anaesthetized the gradual but near total loss of privacy involved in the tradeoff. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z The Bullingdon-esque bow tie – as sported by Carrie in the forthcoming Sex and the City 2 movie – was conspicuous by its absence. What to wear at the music festivals 2010-04-20T21:00:00Z That’s not atypical — orchestras are a sector of Broadway that is not particularly diverse — but it is conspicuous because the players are seated onstage. Curtains Up! How Broadway Is Coming Back From Its Longest Shutdown. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Given the number of mergers and other financial sensitivities in big law, more are choosing less conspicuous gifts or gatherings. For lawyers and lobbyists at gift season, it’s never just the thought that counts 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The audience hears them in voice-over, but there are no conspicuous speakers onstage. In France, Live Theater Calls for Masked Actors and Creative Solutions 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Its conspicuous absence on television nowadays galls him to the degree that he begins acting out his unkind urge to mow down people he doesn’t like. Movie Review: Bobcat Goldthwait?s Film Satire ?God Bless America? 2012-05-10T21:56:10Z Women are sent out on these grafting missions because they are seen as less conspicuous than men. I thought I knew about feminism – then I started work in a women’s prison 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The most conspicuous influences on Storrs’s sculpture, however, were not artists but architects: the American Modernists Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, whose Chicago works Storrs knew well. Critic?s Notebook: Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds 2011-04-14T22:25:54Z When lists are made celebrating the Golden Age of Television we currently enjoy, the show is conspicuous by its absence. Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z “Stealing Beauty” and its elusive and more conspicuous charms, including Ms. Tyler’s adoringly photographed body, will be on sumptuous display in the near-complete retrospective, which runs through Jan. 12. Film: Shifting Amid, and Asserting, His Own Cinema 2010-12-10T21:22:00Z That used to make for a decent love story — just look at “Say Anything” and “Singles” — but that shtick is so conspicuous now. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Eventually he will become Arcadia’s most conspicuous failure by becoming a prominent neo-conservative commentator on a cable news show. Books of The Times: ?Arcadia,? a Novel by Lauren Groff 2012-03-18T20:59:20Z The school is predominantly white but unquestioningly tolerant of the diversity in its population—not that its diversity ever asserts itself in any conspicuous way. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z When story lines involved Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles or South Asian immigrants in Melbourne, the screenplays were conspicuous in their attempts to be respectful. Three (White, Male) Tough Guys Sign Off. Is It a Moment? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The show was a portrait of wealth, glamour, conspicuous consumption and narcissism — nothing more, really. ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z While Britain has adopted many aspects of America's capitalist culture – for example, huge banking bonuses – super-rich philanthropy is a conspicuous exception. Vivien Duffield: The women who thinks it's better to give 2011-03-27T00:06:25Z Yet the Escobar-shaped hole in the show is conspicuous, at least in the early going. ‘Narcos’ Season 3 Premiere: Life Without Pablo 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But the liver in brioche — a version of Escoffier’s classic dish that complies with the statewide ban on foie gras by substituting chicken liver — is a less conspicuous and far more difficult dish to execute. The 10 Best Los Angeles Dishes of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z One of the most conspicuous heralds is a bonny buttercup named the winter aconite. Perspective | As summer’s heat wanes, it’s time to plan (and plant) for late-winter beauty 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z With the exception of the Berlin Philharmonic, the world's greatest orchestras are conspicuous by their absence from this year's . WDR SO/Bychkov 2010-07-21T21:00:00Z Carter and West know that they need to humanise all the conspicuous consumption. Jay-Z & Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:27Z Sometimes I do big things that I think are conspicuous, and I’ll tell you, a week will go by, and it’s as if it never happened. The Real Stars of the ‘Jurassic’ Films? Friends, Not Dinosaurs. 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z But we need to see more dramas in which the actors could go home on the tube in their costumes without being conspicuous. The Paradise: do viewers really need more period drama? 2012-09-25T14:22:53Z Still, one of the most conspicuous accessories at the march may be wordless. Fashioning Protest for the Women’s March on Washington 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z "Wallachians were accustomed to give it as a surname to any person who rendered himself conspicuous either by courage, cruel actions, or cunning." How "Bram Stoker's Dracula" ushered in our thirst for the "sexy killer" 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z They are conspicuous with alien-looking nodding flowers and hooded pitchers of exquisite form and patterning, rising to 36 inches or taller. These stunning plants all have one thing in common: A taste for blood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Where those qualities are most conspicuous is in the kidnapping incident, which remains one of the most peculiar, made-for-TV stories of the 20th century, a veritable checklist of intrigue. Money talks: Hollywood's new obsession with the Getty empire 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z But it’s in these last few days that I’m discovering one new, now conspicuous reason for leaving. Thirsty in West Virginia 2014-01-19T00:00:00Z The buds are conspicuous for weeks before they open as clusters of tubular florets in orange-yellow or red, depending on variety. Chase away the winter blues with these lovely early-blooming trees and shrubs 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Shepherd, 47, is a conspicuous presence wherever he goes in Houston. The Face of Houston’s Diverse Dining Scene Is a White Guy From Nebraska 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In April, she carried in three conspicuous suitcases filled with Legos because his studio was unable to obtain enough for its prototypes. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z There are these feelings of being more conspicuous, especially if you’re running alone. “The Long Run”: An author processes grief and feminism through running 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The optimism of the Push Artists, however, could not obscure the ceremony’s conspicuous avoidance of the tragedy that befell multiple new-guard musicians this year. The Scandalous Dullness of MTV’s First Post-Millennial V.M.A.s 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z His physical cleanliness is less conspicuous than that of his office, with its hard and shiny modernity, an anti-decorative manifestation of boundless power. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z China's experience of the war, in which perhaps 15 million people died, is conspicuous by its absence; likewise Yugoslavia, an omission that seemed more glaring in the 1990s. The World at War by Taylor Downing – review 2012-11-09T09:20:22Z Bujalski—one of the key instigators of modern cinema since his first feature, “Funny Ha Ha,” from 2005—has always filmed with a conspicuous awareness that an independent film production is also a small business. Highlights from BAMCinemaFest 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z But they also consider their products to be a kind of quiet critique of “it” bags and the attendant cult of conspicuous consumption. The Montreal Brothers Behind a Jet Set Leather Brand 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The conspicuous common theme of the season’s hits and interesting misses has been the throwback. Halloween TV in a Time of Frightful Crisis 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Maybe a designer, even a sculptor, but not of that frivolous, trend-watching, conspicuous consumption known as fashion. Tokyo museum exhibits Issey Miyake's constant innovations 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z I find The Washington Post Magazine offensive in its celebration of outrageous luxury and conspicuous consumption. Letters: Readers on cemeteries, The Post’s Luxury Issue and active shooters 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Joining her there, he parted company with the final “n” of “Hartmann,” stripping the name of its most conspicuous Teutonic trace. Geoffrey H. Hartman, Scholar Who Saw Literary Criticism as Art, Dies at 86 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z After five minutes of conspicuous loitering while we wait for a fresh batch, the group descends upon the tray like a swarm of locusts as flabbergasted cooks peer through the window. T Magazine: The Paid Piper 2012-11-12T18:00:13Z This year, though, the festival is also grandly making conspicuous room for women of all kinds, including those rarely deemed good enough to compete for the Palme d’Or: directors. The Year of la Femme at the Cannes Film Festival 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Still, despite its conspicuous oddness, it was more subtle and less flashy than other shows of its ilk. Is glossy Netflix hit Dating Around the best dating show on TV? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Part of Kardashian West’s value lies in how easy it is to hate her, the conspicuous consumption she embodies and how in turn, her name has come to mean so many things. Kim Kardashian West at 40: how the queen of social media changed the world 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z They’re larger, and the leaves, when they appear in the spring, are far more conspicuous than those of crocus. Perspective | As summer’s heat wanes, it’s time to plan (and plant) for late-winter beauty 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Sadly, employers tend to reward conspicuous displays of face time. If you never have enough time… then slow down | Catherine Blyth 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet, when "Space Sculpture" first went on display in 1965, it was as conspicuous as it could be, given pride of place smack in the center of LACMA's entryway. LACMA's 'Space Sculpture' shot from center stage to oblivion 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z This week, a leading technology company released a new product that may represent either the pinnacle of its achievement or a showy gadget that’s a tribute to needless conspicuous consumption. Tivo Creates $5000 DVR, Reminder of Your Eventual Mortality 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z A similar tactic is used in the No Time to Die trailer, which features at least five conspicuous wrist glimpses, some requiring substantial hoisting of a jacket sleeve. Selling James Bond: why No Time to Die is a product placement dream 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Chapel Square showed modest signs of life in its early years but was a conspicuous failure by the 1980s. The Man Who Rebuilt New Haven, Boston and Beyond 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The use of empty space was conspicuous in several pieces. Music Review: The Many Paths of Japan?s Avant-Garde 2011-04-11T20:27:03Z They knew they were conspicuous by their absence. Michael Eavis interview: 'We've got the perfect loos for Glastonbury' 2013-06-21T13:01:17Z The absurd contradictions in this scene have been growing only more conspicuous. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Burnham’s more detached style, most conspicuous in the filmed segments, cools her down, further levering open the gap between performer and character. Review: In ‘Kate,’ Tracing the Tears of a Clown 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The market’s most conspicuous manifestations are in the Arab world, with new museums going up and ambitious Western institutions, like the Guggenheim and the Louvre, pushing their brand abroad. Walid Raad’s Unreality Show Spins Middle Eastern History as Art 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z But scattered here and there was something unexpected: Women, some white and some black, in conspicuous knee-length skirts and pompadour hairdos. The nearly forgotten story of the black women who helped land a man on the moon 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z But we saw enough of the nation’s mood management to understand why hate speech is more conspicuous and closely watched in Berlin than, say, Rome. In Berlin, History Squares Off Against Hip 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z A less conspicuous but particularly intriguing dialectic is between the masculine and the feminine. ‘A History of Lingerie,’ at the Fashion Institute Museum 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Of course, conspicuous Halloween spending strikes some as misplaced. 'Tis the season: to tour Halloween light displays 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The ceremony's annual tradition of honoring the lives of those the industry lost during the previous year faced some backlash online when critics were quick to take to social media to note some conspicuous absences. The Internet Had Some Criticism of Emmys In Memoriam Segment 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z So had a conspicuous part of the architecture world, which, until lately at least, focused on glamour projects rather than on how most people live. Critic's Notebook: Jonathan Kirschenfeld Reimagines the S.R.O. in the Bronx 2011-11-16T12:00:00Z That characteristic is conspicuous in “Frame & Frequency VII,” VisArts’s latest survey of international videos. Review | In the galleries: An intimate panorama of video art’s variety and breadth 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z The works of Fernando Botero, a family friend, are also a conspicuous presence—though one now appears a bit different from when it was first produced. Tour Interior Designer Richard Mishaan's Family Apartment in Manhattan 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z On a conspicuous, quantifiable level, this year’s program reaffirms that a genuine diversity of filmmakers also yields a welcome cinematic multiplicity. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Some of today’s maternity and nursing bras boast lace in conspicuous hues like coral or purple, with added features like rhinestones, and coy nicknames like Awakened by Her Desire and She Craved a Little Decadence. Nursing Bras That Show Mothers in More Than ?Work Mode? 2011-08-31T23:07:43Z When Thierry Frémaux, artistic director of the Cannes film festival, held the traditional press conference in April to announce the lineup of the 72nd edition, one big name was conspicuous by its absence. Cannes 2019 party kicks off as clouds of controversy gather 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z A bouncing knee and fallen pen are conspicuous enough to make you want to wince. The Jane Goodall of neurosurgery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z In it, Spender described the portraits on the wall in Eliot’s office but, said Groucho, “one name was conspicuous by its absence. I trust this was an oversight on the part of Stephen Spender.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But the more recent works use the oscillating motifs as backdrops for brushwork that’s big and bold — and sometimes conspicuous by its absence. Review | In the galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z He’s a man who’s made, or come on, inherited, his money and wants to show it off via some conspicuous consumption. Move over metrosexuals, here comes the “yummy” 2014-03-25T18:47:00Z But while Mr. Sachs shares with Noguchi the impulse to connect the traditional East and the modern West, his work is in conspicuous ways the opposite of Noguchi’s. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z This means it is always conspicuous when budgets are cut. Don't touch that dial: the threat to radio drama 2010-06-20T20:45:00Z The two acts were also conspicuous by their absence from the Mercury prize shortlists. If you're not on the list: the BBC Sound Of ? poll 2011-01-06T22:00:01Z There is though, one obvious paragon of the solo cello repertoire that is conspicuous by its absence from Weilerstein's forthcoming collection - the cello suites written by that titanic figure of classical music, J S Bach. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z I was on my own, banking on a big, dark lecture hall where a kooky lady with two 5-year-olds wouldn’t be quite so conspicuous. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z Fig Newtons and “King Lear,” bitter lemon as well for Othello, that desolate conspicuous soul. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Photograph: ITV As the four helicopters hovered over London and a nation cried "Are such displays of conspicuous wealth really necessary in these austerity times?" The X Factor: what did you think of the new judges? 2011-08-22T11:18:52Z The news was announced by the festival as part of a batch of additions to the lineup, after Tarantino’s film was conspicuous by its absence from the original announcement in April. Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to have world premiere at Cannes 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z It was my first time meditating, and I was anxious about making some sort of conspicuous misstep. Seeking Solitude in Japan’s Mountain Monasteries 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Rooms dedicated to the baron’s conspicuous consumption — a dining room, for example, that seems to have been spray-painted with 24-karat gold — alternate with more conventional galleries. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z One conspicuous result was that while winners on award shows often note that the countdown clock for their speeches is intimidating, Monday’s Emmy winners seemed extra pressured and thus extra flustered. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2022 Emmys 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Men’s heels — naked and socked — have never been so conspicuous. Can a Man Wear Mules to Work? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z This strikingly varied theatrical year follows a season — from spring 2014 to spring 2015 — that was conspicuous for its lack of diversity. This Broadway Season, Diversity Is Front and Center 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Another aspect of Winfrey's personality that bothers some folks is the conspicuous giving. For some, Oprah's exit is good riddance 2011-05-23T13:01:00Z His conspicuous failures included repeated attempts at raising wine grapes. A model of modern sustainable agriculture – with a nudge from Thomas Jefferson 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Sadly conspicuous by their absence were the two most anticipated games in the world: Half-Life 3 and Grand Theft Auto V. This week's new games 2012-08-24T23:06:00Z Nearly eight million YouTube views later, that might have been the end of it, had Perry not taken such conspicuous pains to distance herself from the kiss. Katy Perry concerned where Miley’s tongue has been 2014-03-07T15:33:00Z But as the age of mass production made more shoe styles available cheaply to more people and as the rise of the flapper brought shorter hemlines, the craze for conspicuous shoe consumption clicked. Books Of Style: Following Footprints, Down Through the Ages 2012-06-22T20:53:46Z Truman Capote, himself, was probably one of the most conspicuous literary figures in 20th-century American literary history. “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z She was trying to help, but inevitably, the “new girl” is conspicuous and vulnerable all over again. ‘Homeland’ Times Two: Claire Danes and Jeh Johnson 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z When I was a kid and behaved badly, my mother would accuse me of acting "spoiled," which only now do I appreciate meant like someone with a shamefully conspicuous amount of loot. "Low class" Donald Trump and the Wasps: Reckoning with vulgarity, snobbery and the presidency 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z The most obvious selling point of “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words” also happens to be its most conspicuous deficiency. ‘Created Equal’ Review: A Justice of Few Words Finds His Voice 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It wasn’t unusual for a sister to be outside of the convent walls, but I knew the brown habit was still conspicuous, as was the skipping, beaming four-year-old in uniform beside me. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z This disjunction between conspicuous disorder and surface appeal makes total sense. The “hot mess” humblebrag: Successful white women still love to pretend their lives are in shambles 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z To be honest, it is Mélanie Laurent who single-handedly saves this film from being a complete washout: she is a natural film star, and those qualities that brought her to Tarantino's attention are conspicuous here. M?lanie Laurent: the real star of Inglourious Basterds 2010-07-13T09:32:00Z Employers are simply less likely to hire a person with a tattoo, especially one so conspicuous. Disappearing ink 2012-12-26T01:00:00Z Mr. Fleck and Ms. Boden, specialists in social dramas, are an appropriate choice for an episode that’s more about psychology than conspicuous consumption. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z No doubt this highly conspicuous revolving door between media and consulting work is yet another good explanation for why everyone hates Washington. Cable news, a welcoming home for the weary ex-campaign staffer 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z A nation and its TV culture are united in spirit and disunited by stuttering WiFi signals, in a conspicuous and continual demonstration of heroic degrees of isolation. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z There are times when these invisible worlds suddenly become painfully conspicuous. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez planted a community garden plot. It’s good for the earth — and her. 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The most conspicuous item in Zuckerberg’s fantasy home is a slim television mounted to the wall. The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z “With Miss Davis and Miss Baxter running in tandem through much of “All About Eve,” the gentlemen in the film have as hard a time making themselves conspicuous as male commuters at a white sale.” Sunday Reading: Nights at the Cinema 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z If one element is conspicuous by its absence from this survey, it is women. You're so vain! The phenomenon of the self-loving actor-director 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Last week, authorities said, they noticed a conspicuous increase in graffiti and other forms of vandalism near the museum, including tagging over the weekend at the Little Tokyo Gold Line Station. When is graffiti art? L.A. show hones debate 2011-04-25T16:03:39Z An attack on conspicuous consumption, it was equally a product of the culture it satirised, though Terry Hands's timely production proves that the play is far from a prisoner of the 1980s. A Small Family Business 2010-05-12T21:00:00Z Asian clients were also conspicuous telephone bidders at Christie’s contemporary sale the following week. For the Love of Art, and Money 2014-02-17T09:35:07Z Although vodka is traditional for toasting, Champagne and Cognac are also popular now in Russia, representing the new pleasures of conspicuous consumption. Russian New Year’s Eve: Christmas, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, All Rolled Into One 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Veronica Roth, who wrote the book “Divergent” and its two hot-selling follow-ups, tends to avoid mentioning “The Hunger Games,” but the similarities between these young-adult juggernauts are conspicuous in the extreme. Movie Review: In ‘Divergent,’ Jolted Awake by Fear and Romance 2014-03-20T14:31:38Z No one noticed the calloused fingers of my pulling hand, or how I secluded myself for hours, only to emerge with conspicuous spots of bare red skin. I was a secret hair puller 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But on repeated listening the hand of Dutilleux, the master of structure, remains audible, even if less conspicuous. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z She became a perpetual jet-setter, one of the most conspicuous names, faces and figures in the world. Zsa Zsa Gabor, high-living actress of outrageous wit, dies 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z But the idea that brunch was ever anything but what Shaftel calls “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity” is absurd. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z There is no place for , In the Mood for Love or Hidden, while There Will Be Blood and Borat, the Guardian's top choices, are also conspicuous by their absence. Children vote Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban best film of decade 2011-03-17T12:05:24Z “Magic Mike” sounds like a Soderberghian experiment and maybe it is, though not on a conspicuous level. Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z Kunis’s alpha female appears at once ferocious and like a conspicuous sham. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Review: Lean In, to Outrage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “Grey House,” which comes to Broadway from Chicago, where it had its world premiere at A Red Orchid Theater in 2019, keeps its secrets as quiet as its shocks are conspicuous. Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The movie is at its best when those traces are most conspicuous. “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” Reviewed: Richard Linklater’s Narrow View of a Creator in Crisis 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z They also ask viewers to think — as deeply as possible in a 77-minute movie — about conspicuous consumption, the exploitation of child labor and the hypocrisy of corporate do-gooderism. Stream These 5 Chilling New Horror Movies 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z What was unusual — and disturbing to some experts in journalistic ethics — was the Republican conference’s conspicuous affiliation with Fox, an ostensibly nonpartisan news network. Fox News once banned its hosts from speaking at partisan events. Then it went all in on CPAC. 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z The most conspicuous change that Icke, who also directed the production, makes in his version is a gender switch central to his reimagining and updating of the piece. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Fussier fans are conspicuous by their absence at an under-capacity venue. Smashing Pumpkins – review 2013-07-03T17:40:00Z While this is a vaguely Judeo-Christian realm, it carefully avoids ever being specifically Jewish or Christian, and God is conspicuous by his absence. “Winter’s Tale” and America’s tortured quest for the divine 2014-02-15T17:00:00Z Soon, the textile was exported to the rest of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, where it clothed kings, curtained beds of state and velveted chambers in great displays of conspicuous and easily transportable riches. | International Velvet 2013-08-23T22:31:07Z But that composure vanishes once Tree’s so-called “designer,” a woman who is “all heels and hair and attitude,” makes herself too conspicuous. Books of The Times: Golf Phenom, Not Tiger Woods. Sure. 2011-06-30T21:03:11Z But the widespread problem is a conspicuous lack of connection among company members. In Antaeus Theatre Company's 'As You Like It,' missed connections foil romantic comedy 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Presumably to compensate for the lack of showier incident, Henrich’s production abounds in conspicuous stage business: A character’s coughing fit takes a near-acrobatic turn, for instance. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, two of his favorite apartments are conspicuous and glittering gems of 1980s New York. | The Great American Designs of Tom Scheerer 2013-08-21T13:00:58Z “In my view it is a conspicuous absence and a huge market gap that we intend to fill.” LVMH and the Next Big Digital Shopping Experience 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z She neglects to note that she’d offered Adams a place to stay in New York during her clinical trial, a pretty conspicuous omission from one with a lot of ideas about her subject. Kellers’ cancer writing shows how broken journalism has become 2014-01-17T18:12:00Z The Pepsi logo wasn’t conspicuous other than a “Pepsi Max presents” at the beginning and some shots of spectators drinking Pepsi. ‘Uncle Drew’: Branding Vehicle or Feature Film? Yes 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Because children are such costly status objects, large numbers are a conspicuous sign of wealth. Unnatural selection 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Without high drama, flashy star turns and conspicuous one-upmanship, the show led you inside a cozy family circle where the joy of music making was an end in itself. Music Review: Real Guitar Hero, Through the Years 2011-01-09T23:00:15Z London, in the author's estimation, was already in 1913 the "core of global finance", though not yet a city of conspicuous emotional spectacle. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z But the dark heart that powers the best heavy music is conspicuous by its absence, despite frontman Matt Tuck's frequent attempts to portray himself as an angry young man. Bullet for My Valentine: Temper Temper – review 2013-02-07T22:15:02Z The actor chooses all her words with conspicuous care, but never more so than when talking about the death two years ago of her fiance. Michelle Dockery: 'I consider myself a widow' 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z It owes a conspicuous debt to his delirious 2010 fantasy, “Inception,” and that movie’s vision of a city folding in on itself. Review: ‘Doctor Strange’ and His Most Excellent Adventure 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z However conspicuous her function in the story, she zeros in on the "deceit" of luxury — more of a critique than the tourism-friendly movie ultimately musters. An engaging journey through 'A Five Star Life' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z There is a conspicuous and blissful absence of beach bars and chain hotels; instead, the backdrop is jungle as far as the eye can see. Next Stop: Waves and Wildlife in Costa Rica 2012-09-28T19:07:51Z In 1941 America, well-brought up boys were taught that they “must never be conspicuous from use of highly scented soap or toilet water.” Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Isn’t competitive mothering and conspicuous consumption, as Bravo’s “Housewives” conglomerate demonstrates, a contact sport in Beverly Hills; McLean, Va; or Potomac, Md.; or wherever? The harried tale of ‘Primates of Park Avenue’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Her sympathies are nonetheless conspicuous and evident in the story, in the cinematography and in the rounded portraits. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Their nightly excursions to clubs have a conspicuous familiarity about them, as they twerk and strut and try to show how much fun they’re having on mostly empty dance floors. Review | ‘MTV Floribama Shore’ is no ‘Jersey Shore’ — and that’s not a compliment 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Gendelman said instead that conspicuous displays of wealth are a red flag. Can ‘Illuminati Tinder’ Save Us All? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But made more conspicuous in the book is their place at so many historic moments of that half-century, from the JFK inaugural to the 1963 March on Washington. Peter, Paul and Mary forever: CD, PBS special, book continue folk trio’s legacy But their conspicuous gift is in programming, which may sound as dull as praising a thatcher for his facility with straw, but is at the heart of their success. The Merry Widow; Britten Sinfonia 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z Is it a matter of social swagger and conspicuous display? 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z It’s easier to take chances on random shows because if they’re terrible, it’s less conspicuous to run for the digital exit. Theater to Stream: ‘Hamlet’ and a Tracy Letts Triptych 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Inevitably, when a celebrity experiences that conspicuous a string a mishaps, rumors are bound to swirl. Jimmy Fallon’s falls aren’t funny anymore: If the rumors are true, he needs help, not laughs 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z In 2004 it banned the headscarf and all conspicuous religious “symbols” in public schools. Companies in the European Union can ban headscarves: What will be the impact on Muslim women? 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Among them is a conspicuous newcomer to the field. Despite scary reviews, "Addams Family" lures label 2010-04-24T16:52:00Z Most conspicuous is the influence of Francis Bacon. Exploring David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z “True Detective” is back with a double-episode, third-season premiere Sunday night and a conspicuous, almost self-conscious attempt to resemble its former self. Review | Why does HBO still believe in the potential of ‘True Detective’? Search me. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Despite the early images of conspicuous poverty, Greenfield initially seems to be going somewhat easy on her subject. ‘The Kingmaker’ Review: The Power and Vainglory of Imelda Marcos 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most conspicuous example of artificial scarcity’s importance is the desperate scramble to preserve intellectual-property rights over readily duplicable products. What does OKCupid want? 2013-02-16T17:00:00Z For a while, it wore its ecology on its sleeve, sticking conspicuous turbines and ventilators on roofs, as in the large bronze chimneys over Portcullis House, the MPs' office building next to Big Ben. Roadmap 2050 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z A bronze statue of Thatcher, pointing emphatically in her trademark power suit and power-set hairdo, is conspicuous among the otherwise exclusively male statues of former prime ministers in the ornate lobby adjoining parliament's debating chamber. Iron Lady or monster? Thatcher film stirs UK passions 2012-01-05T16:50:30Z It is because of their Passion’s clear confidence in its own “wokeness” — its conspicuous allocation of texts to representatives of different genders, races and ethnicities — that a shift in personnel was noticeable. Review: John Adams’s ‘Gospel’ Displays an Orchestral Wizard’s Tuneful Ear 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z There is more at work here than conspicuous consumption. Net costs 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z That metal round is the only conspicuous man-made object in the entire array, and a small clue that the pictures were made in the suburbs, not the wilderness. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s a conspicuous show of its budget, but the story of its budget isn’t built into the film’s story—as it is in Gomes’s ingenious and trenchant “Arabian Nights.” The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He sent one model out in a mini dress version of the check with a huge round statement head topper that’s as conspicuous as fashion gets. Christian Siriano’s latest show part matrix, bygone times 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z I hate everything about it: their bragging and conspicuous consumption of wealth, their showy friends, and my now-irredeemable relationship with my sister. What’s Wrong With Three Women Going Camping? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Dior splashes shamelessly into the theater of spectacle, for those in a position to flaunt conspicuous consumption. Critical Shopper: At Dior, a New Look That?s More of a Sneer 2010-12-29T20:50:03Z Nolan is about to drive home from one of their sexless dates when he sees Leo being attacked and is rewarded with a conspicuous black eye. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Exasperated by cycles of conspicuous consumption, he is incredulous that reliance upon a corporate employer would offer him greater freedom. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z On the roof of one of the new residential projects, a house in Santa Monica, you can make out a row of solar panels, which in Gehry's earlier work were as conspicuous as unicorns. 'Frank Gehry' at LACMA is well framed but still needs build-out 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The summer heat made my milling around the freezer section less conspicuous. The Curious Tale of Mr. Kale 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z There is moaning, conspicuous comforter movements and an odd moment where Goode is heard saying, “Open it.” From infrared cameras to headboard mics: The defining sex scenes of reality TV 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Despite the conspicuous getup, Killip nonetheless was able to capture vivid slices of daily life: men fishing, kids playing, punks dancing, scavengers gathering coal on a beach. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Part of the source of its malaise may be detected in a conspicuous credit below the title in the program that reads, “Inspired by the 20th Century Fox motion pictures.” Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z In the early ’90s, purchase of contemporary art began to eclipse all other forms of conspicuous consumption. The ‘Kanye West of Furniture’ Is Now Nesting in the ’Burbs 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z As to this specter, well, I think that the academy by not giving Netflix what it wants so badly — a best picture win — once again delivered a conspicuous message to the streaming giant. This Year, a Plain Old Ordinary Oscars Was Something to Savor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z It looks clear and bright, and moves as briskly as its protagonist, with the editing and lively music doing more conspicuous work than the discreet cinematography. ‘Anaïs in Love’ Review: Portrait of a Woman on the Run 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z “I went into town the other day and I was jumping around and trying to be as conspicuous as possible, but nobody came over and said anything to me.” Meathead of ‘Ted Lasso’ Wanted to Play Rugby 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z THE holidays are a time for family, for reflection, for conspicuous consumption. For New Holiday Albums, It Takes All Kinds 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z A few years ago, the writer Ted Genoways discovered an alternate version of the image, differing only in one detail: a conspicuous bulge had been added to Whitman’s crotch. Lessons on Male Insecurity (and Indigestion) from Walt Whitman’s Men’s-Health Column 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z One other pleasure afforded by Seinfeld — whether through his wealth or the influence and control that he exerts — is a conspicuous lack of the product-placement, commercial tie-in ethos that taints so many online series. So these comics drive to a diner and drink coffee 2012-08-04T01:57:04Z Russian visitors — and their yachts — have been conspicuous absentees this year. A Surreal Feel at a Wartime Venice Biennale 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The security presence this year is conspicuous, with dark-jacketed men standing outside or immediately inside fancy boutiques, but it is no more than usual, a security guard said. Cannes set to open, with fans, stars and tight security 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Because the multiple shots are combined into one flawless whole, the effects of deterioration are not usually conspicuous. Review | In the galleries: Exhibits explore the many meanings of blue 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s a good list, but this special demonstrates a conspicuous omission: Nothing draws a crowd like a fight. Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’ Strikes Back 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Most conspicuous among his New Haven projects was a downtown renewal plan. The Man Who Rebuilt New Haven, Boston and Beyond 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z He wants to explore their values, if that’s the word: It seems that everyone is flagrantly competitive, always boastful, with no sense of shame where conspicuous consumption is concerned. Review: Kevin Kwan’s ‘China Rich Girlfriend’ Skewers Vulgar Wealth in Asia 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z I expected perhaps to encounter coral bleaching and other more conspicuous examples of reef destruction, but the absence of sharks disturbed me the most. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z It is a handsome, heavy volume that belongs in a conspicuous spot on the coffee table. Books: Portraits on the Page of Paris, London and Venice 2014-04-17T17:20:24Z Yet perhaps its most conspicuous name is a now forgotten man: David Stacton, arguably the most unjustly neglected American novelist of the post-second world war era. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z It’s so poignant how a person can make themselves more conspicuous just trying to hide. Never show them your back 2012-11-24T01:00:00Z "The Donut King" celebrates Ngoy's efforts at becoming a self-made man, but it also chronicles his conspicuous consumption — and not just of donuts. The riveting saga of "The Donut King," who was seduced by dough, money and power 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z As conspicuous as Mr. Frutiger’s work became, it was for its inconspicuousness, he said, that he hoped it would be known. Adrian Frutiger Dies at 87; His Type Designs Show You the Way 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The 2010 opening-night film, “Robin Hood,” starring Russell Crowe, didn’t fare nearly as well: Indeed, it landed with a conspicuous thud, earning tepid reviews and lackluster proceeds at the box office. With a low-key opening night film, the Cannes Film Festival gets off to a subdued — but promising — start. If there is one conspicuous absence in the lineup of guest hosts so far, it’s youth. What if ‘The Daily Show’ Used Guest Hosts Permanently? 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z His talent is as conspicuous as the book’s heft. Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z It was interesting to see up-close the mixed reaction to these political moments at the Dolby, where those not applauding were as conspicuous as those who were. After all the crazy Oscar drama live onstage, one idea endures: the power of empathy 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z His vertebrae, devastated by disease — perhaps extrapulmonary tuberculosis — curved in an S and slumped into a conspicuous hump over his right shoulder. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z She was awarded IDA's Courage Under Fire award last year for her "conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth." Snowden film 'CitizenFour' wins top documentary award 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z But over the past two to three years, consumers have seen a conspicuous shift in the look of the poinsettia. Reinventing the poinsettia: A classic Christmas flower’s colorful new looks 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z As one reads on in “Motherhood,” it becomes increasingly conspicuous that in the world of this novel, there is only one example of a writer — the narrator herself. Mother of All Decisions: Sheila Heti’s New Novel Weighs Whether to Have a Child 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The conspicuous absence of color on this relentlessly colorful tropical island, and the insistence on simplicity in the all-white interiors, lets the furnishings, a meticulously executed blend of the antique and the now, stand out. Key West Contemporary 2010-09-01T04:00:00Z Had it come with a chinstrap, the false hair couldn't have been any more conspicuous. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z By late summer, the fruit is conspicuous even though the shrubs are smothered in pretty, elliptical leaves, free of the spines we associate with holly. Perspective | Looking for a star for your winter garden? Try winterberry holly. 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The omission of the question of discrimination is all the more conspicuous because it’s the very question that “The Founder” builds, with yet another fine ironic twist, into Kroc’s founding vision. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The New Zealand teenager Lorde released a debut single, "Royals," that puts down a culture of conspicuous consumption, and distributed it first for free. Pope, pop singer share MTVU award 2013-12-10T17:48:29Z He noted a “clear difference” between how his blackness was perceived in Paris; there, his Americanness was the most conspicuous part of his identity. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The White House is one of the few conspicuous glass ceilings left, so maybe television writers are reluctant to make light of so important a milestone. ‘Madam Secretary,’ ‘State of Affairs’ and Other Series Channel Hillary Rodham Clinton 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z She was recognized by the IDA for "conspicuous bravery in the pursuit of truth." 'The Square' wins top documentary award for look at Egypt's turmoil 2013-12-07T06:30:31Z If their youth and their attire weren’t conspicuous enough, there was the matter of their conversation. California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z All of them are filled in with cheap particle board painted a conspicuous white. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Adult Wendy, who is supposed to be an American, has a conspicuous Italian accent. ‘The Lost Girls’ Review: Wendy’s Telling of Peter Pan 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Representation, then, may be the more conspicuous dimension of Mr. Chavarria’s personal project, but it is only half the story. Willy Chavarria Represents 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Excessive conspicuous consumption was pure oxygen to Smith’s gossip page. How Liz Smith invented Donald Trump 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Stories of sibling rivalry and discord are conspicuous by their absence. Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The absence is conspicuous because the Ninth Amendment is a prime example of how merely reading the text of the Constitution is not “the start and the finish of the interpretive process.” Scalia’s shameless political agenda 2012-10-01T19:53:00Z The mid-1960s saw a conspicuous rise in civil unrest in the United States. ‘Riotsville, USA’ Review: A Fake Town to Explore Ongoing Unrest 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z As he was allowed no redeeming features, and Hedren no conspicuous vices, the story's point seemed to be that physical ugliness begets moral ugliness. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z We’re not even accorded in this world of conspicuous consumption the magnitude of a runway show that would keep our own eyes popping. Review | Theresa Rebeck’s riff on Restoration comedy is not quite a smash 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z This may be because the goldenrod is conspicuous, with its lanky stems and the way it spreads by runners to colonize roadside ditches and open fields. This valuable plant looks like ragweed, but allergy sufferers can breathe easy 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z One approach is to bend toward genre, seeking a conspicuous part of the market that remains sufficiently déclassé and chaotic as to leave a wide field for idiosyncrasy among its conventions. Highlights from the 2019 Maryland Film Festival 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s conspicuous pride in craft lacks the largeness of imagination that belongs to worthwhile art; it’s exactly the sort of movie that makes the very notion of craft seem hardly admirable. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z That frenzied moment of spending seemed like another world altogether compared with this year’s Biennale, which opened to the public on Saturday and is about discovery and looking closely, not conspicuous consumption. A Contemplative Venice Biennale, With Less Financial Frenzy 2013-06-02T20:17:59Z In recent years, there has been a conspicuous rise in contemporary art that engages with religious or spiritual ideas. For Two Los Angeles Artists, the Spiritual Is Political 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s when they hit the rails that the second thoughts hit, and the secrets, and the conspicuous holes in their back stories. ‘Run’ Review: A Rail Romance Turns Train Wreck 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z "Her biography is a wonderfully lurid and colorful story of conspicuous consumption, failed marriages, affairs, illnesses, bickering and boozing," said Geoffrey Macnab. World media pay tribute to film's "last goddess" 2011-03-24T11:33:05Z Although painting was its most conspicuous medium, Rimpa was about design, total effect, taste that embraced calligraphy, textiles, ceramics and lacquer. Art Review: Rimpa Painters at Japan Society and the Met 2012-09-27T22:19:07Z I wanted to show that the 1980s were not all flashy clothes and conspicuous consumption, that poverty existed in between episodes of "Dallas" and "Dynasty." "Stranger Things" and the frustrations of nostalgia 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s true that its passage is generally more discrete in deserts than elsewhere, partly because there the mark of history, the human mark, tends to be less conspicuous. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z As a standard-bearer of the status quo, she speaks to a conservative mind-set conspicuous on the runways of late. New York Fashion Week: Kate Middleton?s Style Felt on the Runways ? New York Fashion Week 2011-09-07T21:34:15Z We prefer these to the green foam-covered wires that are often used, because they are less conspicuous. The grapevine, nature’s awning The counters to the left of the front door were bare — a conspicuous blank spot in a city where every inch of real estate is exploited and fought over. A Tempest in a Pizzeria Spills Out Into the Street 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The film—despite some conspicuous longueurs, slack performances, unkempt cinematography—is a passionate and relentless effort to connect the performances of music to the lives and activities with which they coincided. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Until the final reel, Eros is conspicuous by his absence. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z In theory, this structure makes perfect sense; in practice, it takes an experienced writer to make a seamless blend of personal and political stories, and this book has some conspicuous ridges and lumps. Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The Vita's motion-sensing proves perfect in the puzzle modes, tilting the world with remarkable precision for ultimate monkey manipulation, yet the same finesse is conspicuous by its absence from some of the bonus games. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz – review 2012-11-11T00:06:01Z And that’s the key with the “new done” look: blending carefree with conspicuous. How to Get Josephine Baker Waves, the Modern Way 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z With their audacious entrances and conspicuous consumption, they are the most visible new customers for couture in a generation, far outspending clients from emerging economies like India, Brazil and China. The Russians Claim the Fashion Spotlight 2012-06-29T20:17:42Z It was a typical late-night bar scene — lights, music, sticky floors — with a conspicuous group of interlopers. They Dated Every Sunday Night on the Phone. Here’s How They Got to Marriage. 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z For one thing, though Madonna is certainly conspicuous, visibility does not equal dollars. Big Bucks: Madonna Tops Celeb Earnings List, and Other Surprises Follow 2013-08-27T15:43:54Z Though not disclosed until the end, family history and Kirk Hanna's conspicuous absence among those interviewed foreshadow his fate. 'Hanna Ranch' documents the battles of an 'eco-cowboy' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z This is the Hamptons, after all, where conspicuous consumption is an Olympics-caliber sport. Where to Show Off Your $5 Million Horse 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The high, stony pyramid of the Matterhorn — “lonely, conspicuous, and superb,” as he described it — still dominates the local skyline. 36 Hours in Zermatt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Because what is common to almost all Netflix’s offerings is a conspicuous lack of emotional intelligence – which is strange for a genre driven almost exclusively by feeling. Can Netflix save us from the Great Romcom Shortage of 2018? I watched 11 films to find out 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Why: In a world of conspicuous consumption, there is no place more conspicuous to do your consuming. Shop and gawk Rodeo Drive 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Publications catering to women have also been more conspicuous about having diverse writers and models in the wake of Jezebel, and airbrushing their models less. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z A conspicuous gap in The New York Times Cooking section’s recipe collection. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 3: Making It and Faking It 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Pen & Pixel rightly understood hip-hop as a fantasy of abundance and made its covers into conspicuous consumption cornucopias. Celebrating the Fast-Moving, Bug-Eyed, Wily World of Hip-Hop Mixtape Covers 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The exhibition’s other conspicuous theme is the deadly violence that has plagued Afghanistan in recent years and drawn international media coverage. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall. Don’t commit a ‘crape murder’ 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Camille Cosby — the entertainer’s wife of more than 50 years — drew stares because she was in the courthouse after a week of conspicuous absence. Jurors in sexual-assault trial of Bill Cosby begin deliberations 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The only conspicuous shift on “American Dream” is that the vocal melodies now obey the contours of Bono, for better and for worse, depending on how much lung Murphy chooses to deploy. Perspective | James Murphy is our Huey Lewis 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “Because it was such a rare, desirable piece of equipment at the time, it seemed to reek of conspicuous consumption,” he said. Noticed: Users of iPhones Put a Flourish in E-Signatures 2011-02-11T22:46:06Z She was conspicuous, heavily made up, with elaborately coiffed white hair, and wearing an ostentatious summer hat. Portraits of the artists 2011-03-05T00:07:22Z The fridge accentuates the synergistic gist of a show that includes casual but conspicuous references to Netflix executives and a steady stream of the operation’s talent. Norm Macdonald’s Press Tour Was a Debacle. His New Show Is a Loose Hang. 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Despite Mr. Linyekula’s conspicuous solo presence, the real vigor in “What Is Black Music Anyway,” as its title attests, is found in the music. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z Unless it’s a conspicuous part of the story, like Brad Pitt aging in reverse in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” or the flashback in “Ant-Man” that shaved 30 years off Michael Douglas’s face. Hollywood’s secret beauty trick: The special effects facelift 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z One night during the same voyage the novelist found himself conspicuous for not having followed English etiquette. Laurence Scott: rereading Maurice by EM Forster 2013-07-05T10:00:01Z One conspicuous absentee on this year’s list of nominees is Girls Trip breakout Tiffany Haddish who failed to receive a nod for her much-lauded turn in the raucous hit comedy. Golden Globes 2018: the red carpet, the winners, the speeches – live! 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Up the street, the CTA panels, whose smooth surface requires that they be outfitted with decals as opposed to paint, are less conspicuous. Writing on the wall for Art Loop project 2011-05-08T23:03:00Z Yet at the same time they’re not filmed with any conspicuous cinematic impressionism or subjective fragmentation. “Mission: Impossible—Fallout” Is Basically a Two-and-a-Half-Hour Making-Of Sequence 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z “It is sad to say,” wrote one witness at her memorial, “but at the funeral rites for this genuine artist, the Conservatory — where she was professor for 30 years — was conspicuous by its absence.” Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Almost all 12-year-olds are confused about who and what they are, but for David Greenfeld, at school, one conspicuous facet of his identity defines him: not his Green-ness, but his whiteness. Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Because of that conspicuous silence from dead victims, true crime podcasters — many of whom may be perfectly well-meaning people — are able to make sometimes exorbitant wealth, or draw massive clout and sponsorships. “Only Murders” makes us question the ethically murky joy we derive from true crime 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The most conspicuous failure by far was Theresa, who never became more than a stand-by-your-man cipher. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z Mr. Cowen’s prose is animated by his dislike of sanctimonious, more-organic-than-thou types — the foodie liberal elite — but his book is its own elaborate exercise in conspicuous consumption and reverse snobbery. Books of The Times: ?An Economist Gets Lunch,? by Tyler Cowen 2012-04-10T15:38:44Z It was conspicuous in its absence, like the character in the Dylan song: “The only person on the scene missin’ was the Jack of Hearts.” Lost and Found: A Missing Camus Biography and a Christmas Miracle 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z While the show has been fairly criticized for its conspicuous celebration of consumerism, which sits awkwardly with the general mood of the times, it's not Emily's overthought outfits we're meant to aspire to. "Emily in Paris": Why it’s so hard to admit love for the show despite it being so popular 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The music of “Prayer Song” hovers with electric-piano chords and wordless backup voices; the lyrics are a kaleidoscopic, free-associative vision of Los Angeles, touching on lust, violence, gentrification, plastic surgery, masculinity, conspicuous consumption and religion. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Embedded in this chosen identity is a predilection for display that goes beyond conspicuous consumption. How MTV's "Jersey Shore" fetishized the Guido, a subversive ethnic stereotype that America disdained 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z |
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