Similar words: self-conscious, consciously, subconsciously, unconsciously, conscientiously, stream of consciousness, conscious, subconscious. Meaning: adv. in an uncomfortably self-conscious manner.
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1 The boys posed rather self-consciously for the photo.
2 Self-consciously she fingered the emeralds at her throat.
3 She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.
4 She was self-consciously aware of his stare.
5 The world which the book inhabits seems too self-consciously literary, too introverted.
6 He steadied himself self-consciously, waving aside any further help.
7 She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring, twisting it around below her knuckle.
8 The Poole family, grouped rather self-consciously round the birthday cake on Earth, lapsed into a sudden silence.
9 The nation was at a critical turning point, self-consciously entering a new era.
10 Ablaze with fiery emotions, Meredith walked self-consciously to the bathroom under Lucenzo's critical eyes.
11 Three-floor club patronized by a slightly older, self-consciously stylish, well-off crowd.
12 Behaviouralism, for instance, has self-consciously hoisted its own flag and been sharply critical of Realism.
13 Each of us sat rather self-consciously chatting with our partners, who displayed varying degrees of rotundity.
14 She self-consciously fiddled with her hair,[www.Sentencedict.com] tidied up her clothes.
15 Surrealist photography indeed developed techniques that self-consciously played upon this juxtaposition of the real as signifier and the signifier as real.
16 Shelley is superbly equipped technically, yet never self-consciously seeks to use virtuosity as an end in itself.
17 See them, goodwife laughed childishly not self-consciously.
18 The place is as self-consciously trendy as they come.
19 Once viewed by critics as petulant and self-consciously rebellious, Mr. Han has moved beyond ad hominem attacks on poets, pop stars and fellow bloggers.
20 Selkirk and four soldiers, well-armed, carrying picks and shovels, were waiting rather self-consciously near the main gate.
21 These stories are more explicit and more didactic, probably because they are more self-consciously in-tended as correctives.
22 At the same rime, there was a requirement to self-consciously interrogate art's own internal, usually formal, functions.
23 It was within this milieu that the thinkers of New Liberalism sought to develop a self-consciously modernist philosophy.
24 Unlike the versions of feminist psychology examined before, associative feminist psychologies are rarely deliberately or self-consciously adopted.
25 I glanced down at my dress jacket a little self-consciously.
26 Notice how very casual Yeats is in that second strophe, how self-consciously fantastic and speculative he is.
27 It, however, is paradoxical that "enjoying the rural life" has never been an indigenous idea having developed independently and self-consciously, but a bounce-back of urban cultural expansion.
28 Only in this society, people could take part in the great practice of building the sinitic social democracy self-consciously.
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