hyperconscious

• “The effect is one in which we are conscious, if not "hyperconscious," of two media at work.”

  Blake's Contraries Game

• “He was hyperconscious of what he called “the tremendous anti-Latin feeling” of California and Los Angeles.”

  Simon & Schuster: Empire of Dreams

• “When tragedy does occur, it is more often than not given a black-comedic inflection — as in works by Wallace, Antrim, Eggers, and their ilk — not because the authors can't do powerful conflict and emotion, necessarily, but because the hyperconscious self-reflexiveness of their style is hard to turn off.”

  These Kids Today

• “Born in 1943 and raised in Chicago in a secular family hyperconscious of who was and who was not Jewish, Zimmerman confessed that she, too, made note of women who were:”

  Literature Scholars in the United States.

• “Today, the guardians of political correctness are hyperconscious about race.”

  "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."

• “Seminal Caucasian rappers like the Beastie Boys always seemed hyperconscious of their whiteness; when their first album came out in 1986, just about everyone assumed the Beastie Boys were mocking black culture.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chuck Klosterman on Pop

• “Daily life is an ongoing process of internalized discipline: parents teach their children to act as though the child next to them but in a different city isn't there; adults become hyperconscious of how long they look in a particular direction, or in what direction they step; and eventually, residents of each city come to embody their citizenship in particular ways of movement.”

  The Little Professor:

• “The extraordinary meticulousness makes me, at least, hyperconscious of the artist.”

  Outer Limits of the Pencil

• “Moshe Feldenkrais, who developed The Feldenkrais Method for rehabilitating physical injuries, broke down bodily movements into tiny parts, teaching patients to become hyperconscious of the impact of each muscle's micro-movements, thereby identifying exactly where the changes must occur in order to avoid further pain.”

  Shari Foos: The Upside Of The Fall

• “Consumers have become hyperconscious about fuel economy, and other makers also are suffering from a disinterest in crossovers, while sales of passenger cars are booming.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New Murano: Better, but Is It Enough?

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