#conspicuous

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#consumption #gentleman #goods #leisure #means

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. ↗

— Mary Wortley

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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. ↗

— Carl Andre

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conspicuously #miserable

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ↗

— Alice Meynell

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Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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