The conspicuous silence of Soviet biographies about his parents suggests that he came from a bourgeois rather than a working-class or peasant background.

"There has been some conspicuous silence," he said.

Throughout the days of uncertainty, citizens remarked on the conspicuous silence of their local government and Communist Party.

There was a conspicuous silence.

The sound you have been hearing in the pre- and early summer season air is conspicuous silence.

Well done to him for speaking out as there has been a conspicuous silence from the banksters and politicians concerning their outrageous pay packages.

Yet, as London writes, "What remains curious is the conspicuous silence of feminists.

Kai asked Lunzie to cover the conspicuous silence as Bonnard made his way across the compound.

As inspector general," he said, "Ms. Mauskopf has been noticed only for her conspicuous silence.

Unfortunately, at nearly every point it remains hidden in the conspicuous silences and turbid murkiness on both sides of the Atlantic.