Definitions
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- adverb In a
self-conscious manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an uncomfortably self-conscious manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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He stole a glance at Kirk, then looked away again when he found the boy’s expression self-consciously blank and unreadable.
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He stole a glance at Kirk, then looked away again when he found the boy’s expression self-consciously blank and unreadable.
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He stole a glance at Kirk, then looked away again when he found the boy’s expression self-consciously blank and unreadable.
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“I already did,” he says, chuckling self-consciously, which makes the whole group erupt in laughter, finally breaking the ice.
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She passes out colored markers and paper, and each girl marks her paper gingerly, glancing around the room self-consciously.
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Rather than a defective personality trait, authority-mindedness is understood to be ‘an intentionally adopted’ worldview that ‘self-consciously values authority.’
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She crossed her arms self-consciously, covering the worn spots on her skirt.
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His prose is self-consciously "good" minimalist prose in which stating the blandly obvious in simple declarative sentences is meant to pass as poetic and full of implied feeling and meaning.
Wishing Woody had shot the narrator or, better yet, not shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Thieves Like Us, then, is only typically an Altman movie in the ways that it is self-consciously not a typical Altman movie.
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Hal Duncan's Vellum maybe fits the bill, being recent and (in parts) self-consciously modern (ist)?
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