More money brought more affection for inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The House That Goldman Built] Reference
Her comfort was far less important than her inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Disaster] Reference
On the contrary, he had made inconspicuousness a passion and an art. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
Properties of the machine guns are divided into three general classes: Mode of action, fire, and inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
Aberrant in other respects, the swamp pheasant disobeys this law, and justifies its disobedience by inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
The most noticeable point about him was the inconspicuousness of his voice and manner, yet there was a glint of steel in his gray eyes that told of enormous force in him. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
She had so effectively made a virtue of inconspicuousness that it might have been difficult for her superiors to imagine her adapting to a more deliberately visible role. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
Concrete suggests modesty, not only by virtue of its cost, and thus its association with utilitarian or unfinished structures, but in the bland inconspicuousness of its color and texture. From Wordnik.com. [Why Hadid's MAXXI Works] Reference
With respect to the fewness and inconspicuousness of the flowers in the tropics, may it not be accounted for by the hosts of insects, so that there is no need for the flowers to be conspicuous?. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference
The balloon fish depends upon its inconspicuousness and harmony with its environment in the struggle for existence, for, no doubt, there are in the sea fish so strong of stomach as to accept it without a spasm. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Such facts are accepted at face-value by the primitive mind, and are used as the basis of explanation of facts in the two remaining groups, namely, those facts which, though common, are apt to escape the attention owing to their inconspicuousness, and those which are of infrequent occurrence. From Wordnik.com. [Bygone Beliefs] Reference
She had remembered it only as a bleak inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Security strategists could take a lesson or two on camouflage and inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
We are no longer people of consequence or authority; our safety depends upon our inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow's End] Reference
This statement is elaborated and commented upon as making a strong point for colourative protection through inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Moths of the Limberlost] Reference
The adrenal charge of fast-paced, exclusive sales and the ease and inconspicuousness of shopping online make for a compelling combination. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Most Popular] Reference
I took off my disguise and put on my glasses, since whatever inconspicuousness it granted me was negated by the costumes of the Reverend and Black Coyote. From Wordnik.com. [SF0] Reference
Though his popularity was of the quiet kind, felt rather than actively expressed among his friends, she had never mistaken his inconspicuousness for obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [House of Mirth] Reference
She longed to make the world better, and without any priggishness she set it an example of simplicity and sobriety, of cheerful acquiescence in plainness and inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Essays] Reference
Probably it may be quite common in similar localities, but its size, its brief periodicity, and inconspicuousness, contribute to make it, at present, one of the rarities of botany. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
She never rose in her seat again, and, indeed, seemed to seek inconspicuousness, but she was always in the second or third row of the orchestra, and she wore a different gown on each occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
The cards - some of which are included in the museum's acquisition - were intended to combat fraud, but their relative inconspicuousness has had the added effect of reducing the stigma associated with receiving public assistance. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The service, too, was in many respects of the kind whose glory is in its inconspicuousness and obscure character, a structure that would stand when builders were gone, a device that would serve its end when its inventor was no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wellesley] Reference
Two questions now remain for further consideration -- one bearing on the possibility of new Law in the spiritual; the other, on the assumed invisibility or inconspicuousness of the old Laws on account of their subordination to the new. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
The inconspicuousness of metallic lines in the spectra of the white stars he attributed, not to the paucity, but to the high temperature of the vapours producing them, and the consequent deficiency of contrast between their absorption-rays and the continuous light of the photospheric background. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
"The interpretation, then, I would offer of inconspicuousness and all kinds of degradations is the exact opposite to that of conspicuousness and great differentiations; namely, that species with minute flowers, rarely or never visited by insects, and habitually self-fertilised, have primarily arisen through the neglect of insects, and have in consequence assumed their present floral structures" (p. 282). From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
And both Knobos and DalNalten had made inconspicuousness a fine art. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
The inconspicuousness was intentional. From Wordnik.com. [The Kosher Conversion] Reference
Aside from Turan’s delusion that Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Paramount Vantage, and Focus Features — affiliates of 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, and Universal, respectively — lack studio wherewithal or influence in supporting their own nominees, I think he’s on to something here: While I’ve already called my shot for Clayton writer-director Tony Gilroy to sneak in for Best Original Screenplay, maybe Clayton’s general inconspicuousness is its most formidable attribute. From Wordnik.com. [The Oscars: Too Little, Too Late for Clayton?: Vanity Fair] Reference
A bleak inconspicuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
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