self-consciously

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.

American Grace

She passes out colored markers and paper, and each girl marks her paper gingerly, glancing around the room self-consciously.

American Grace

Rather than a defective personality trait, authority-mindedness is understood to be ‘an intentionally adopted’ worldview that ‘self-consciously values authority.’

American Grace

Hal Duncan's Vellum maybe fits the bill, being recent and (in parts) self-consciously modern (ist)?

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She crossed her arms self-consciously, covering the worn spots on her skirt.

Uprising

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.

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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.

Thieves unlike them

Matt Roush: Luck is nowhere near as inscrutable and self-consciously opaque as John From Cincinnati, although even when you can understand what the actors are saying — lots of method mumbling going on here, delivering that peculiar David Milch-ian syntax — you may not always understand what they're talking about, because they often speak in horse code.

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Yet, this term might also be usefully applied to the great flowering of self-consciously new styles, often genetically linked in some ways to the Arts and Crafts Movement, that appeared at the turn of the last century; theirs is in many ways a brilliant example of innovative approaches to design that nonetheless fell within the bounds of tradition, and sought to expand them in new directions rather than simply forsaking them.

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