self-consciously

How To Use self-consciously In A Sentence

• Maybe Richard Cohen's only problem is that he gently cries himself to sleep at night, his uncalloused, lily-white hands self-consciously stroking his beard, waiting for an anthrax letter that never comes. Dan Sweeney: Richard Cohen: Squealing Porcine Quisling, or just Gone Native?
• In contrast to what he sees as the dry formalism of his forbears, Morrison offers a self-consciously passionate response to the play.
• Danny's hands flew to his head self-consciously, the shrill ringing of his phone saving Alyssa from a tart response.
• Thus, from the outset, we are on the borderline between art and cliché, the self-consciously poetic writing nudging us in the direction of art.
• You have to ask yourself whether an illiterate country girl, ignorant in city ways, would have such a self-consciously literary mode of expressing herself.
• Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability.
• She was self-consciously aware of his stare.
• Suspense, of which Hitchcock remains the acknowledged master, is merely the form of cinema that focuses most self-consciously on this general truth of cinematic experience.
• Self-consciously she fingered the emeralds at her throat.
• She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.