All 8 Uses of
conspicuous
in
The Remains of the Day
- Now I do not doubt that Mr Neighbours had good organizational skills; he did, I understand, mastermind a number of large occasions with conspicuous style.†
Chpt 1e -
- ...his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters.
Chpt 1e - *conspicuous = easily noticed
- Most conspicuously, in virtually the central spot of the otherwise empty and highly polished floor, lay the dustpan Miss Kenton had alluded to.†
Chpt 2m -
- It struck me as a trivial, but irritating error; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall, but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies.†
Chpt 2m -
- Mr Lewis apart, however, the other guests, perhaps through awe, perhaps through a sense of antagonism, kept a wary distance from M. Dupont, a fact that was conspicuous even in that generally guarded atmosphere, and which seemed to underline all the more the feeling that it was M. Dupont who somehow held the key to the outcome of the following days.†
Chpt 2m -
- Not only was the conversation flowing more freely and loudly, we found ourselves serving out wine at a conspicuously increased rate.†
Chpt 2m -
- This being a thatch-roofed cottage by the roadside, it had looked a conspicuously attractive prospect from the Ford as I had approached in the last of the daylight.†
Chpt 3m -
- At such a time of night, one's footsteps descending the back staircase are bound to be conspicuous and: no doubt they were responsible for arousing Miss Kenton.†
Chpt 4a -
Definition:
easily noticed -- typically attracting attention such as by being large, flashy, or unusual