Well, 144 is conspicuously 12 squared.

Or this is conspicuously negative 12 squared.

And this is conspicuously 2 times negative 12.

Then he saw hanging conspicuously on the wall, which was otherwise already empty, the picture of the woman dressed in nothing but fur.

Before I got there, the library of the college had been named for Mr. Teszler, and after I arrived in 1993, the faculty decided to honor itself by naming Mr. Teszler Professor of the College partly because at that point he had already taken all of the courses in the catalog, but mainly because he was so conspicuously wiser than any one of us.