A large number of friends and relatives came, and the bride's father, a Protestant minister, conspicuously avoided wearing his clerical garb.

Curiously, considering the theme of the show, the catalog essayists conspicuously avoid the question of Sargent's sexual orientation.

It's a theme U.S. politics conspicuously avoids.

Echeverria, the highest cabinet official, conspicuously avoided any talks, winning the tap for himself and leaving Mexico with scars that have not healed to this day.

The overcaptain had lost conspicuously avoided him while he had been working, and that was probably for the best - for both of them.

He was absent from public view for most of the day, and conspicuously avoided giving any appearance that he had begun to celebrate.

And we conspicuously avoided harming the zombies' shuttle.

Except that for every person in the airport who thanked me for my service, there was at least one who conspicuously avoided eye contact.

Politicians, whether they are Presidential candidates in Iowa or prospective deputies in Normandy, conspicuously avoid talk of reform.

Four years ago, Jimmy Carter conspicuously avoided the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.