As impressive as this was, such conspicuous displays of ability can turn the audience's attention from the subject matter and toward the performer.

Nothing creates this pressure so efficiently as the conspicuous display of 24-year-olds driving Porsches.

Low-fat cooking, she says, "is a conspicuous display of competence."

If great art can be made without a conspicuous display of ego, this is it.

Some of the returning males perform conspicuous displays as they near the nests.

The deliberately conspicuous display suggests that the allies may be near a decision to move forces to the city.

It was the apogee of an American culture of conspicuous display.

This quality was not on conspicuous display in the fair's environment.

The solo part is written into the music so that it uses virtuosity for musical purposes without conspicuous display.

In a culture that disdains ostentation, there are few conspicuous displays of new money.