(13 quotes found)
“Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender”
Juvenal
“Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.”
William Randolph Hearst
“My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous”
Bible
“The abuse of ecstasy in entertainment pubs in large and medium cities of China was increasingly conspicuous, which undermines both the physical and mental health of the young people.”
Wang Gang
“It is an extremely conspicuous hot region,”
John Spencer
“Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides”
James Reston
“Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.”
Lord John Russell
“In our house, there were far more sell than buy orders. There was a conspicuous increase in short [sell] contracts, reflecting a desire to hedge against the prospect of a further decline ... in the near-term.”
Oliver Fang
“DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread --a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved.”
Ambrose Bierce
“FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.Done to a turn on the iron, behold Him who to be famous aspired. Content? Well, his grill has a plating of gold, And his twistings are greatly admired. --Hassan Brubuddy”
