How To Use Self-consciousness In A Sentence

  • Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
  • DreamWorks, in particular, has made the kind of allusive, parodic cultural self-consciousness that used to be called postmodernism safe for the whole family. NYT > Home Page
  • Or it may be the removal of any self-consciousness that can often accompany public expression of Jewishness in the diaspora.
  • Finally, to make the whole matter clear, let me repeat that this event, the inbreak of Self-consciousness, took place, or BEGAN to take place, an enormous time ago, perhaps in the beginning of the Neolithic Age. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
  • Opinions are divided about its excellence as an example of oratory; some finding a self-consciousness in it which is unapostolic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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  • Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia. THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
  • Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fundamental argument for its existence was the immediate appeal to self-consciousness; and it was further defined as indestructible on the ground of its being utterly discontinuous and incommensurable with its material environment. The Approach to Philosophy
  • ‘Near-death does that to you,’ he replies without an iota of self-consciousness.
  • In the preface to the English translation, he says that his cisatlantic experience left him with ‘a persistent sense of self-consciousness and Unheimlichkeit.’
  • To the more highly pitched self-consciousness this life had become a burden, and in the miseries of the present, one hoped for a future life in which the pain and vulgarity of the unreal life of earth would be completely laid aside ([Greek: Enkrateia] and [Greek: anastasis]). History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • America, vol. ii, pp. 115 sq., where the beginning of self-consciousness is associated with the break-up of the holophrase. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
  • Movies about children always run the risk of cuteness, because kids often play to the camera with little self-consciousness.
  • For me, it is the combination of an eye and a sensibility, self-consciousness, and an often uncompromising – but not unamusing or dry, just the opposite! Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • To that one in the solution of which the latter could do nothing but commit paralogisms (namely, that of immortality), because it could not lay hold of the character of permanence, by which to complete the psychological conception of an ultimate subject necessarily ascribed to the soul in self-consciousness, so as to make it the real conception of a substance, a character which practical reason furnishes by the postulate of a duration required for accordance with the moral law in the summum bonum, which is the whole end of practical reason. The Critique of Practical Reason
  • Stop letting self-consciousness hold you back.
  • Other senses like touch, hearing, taste, smell and sight are derived from self-consciousness.
  • For all these films' formal originality and sophistication, for all their self-consciousness, finally what makes them extraordinary is their directness, their effortless grace and beauty and truthfulness.
  • He used to be enchained by his own self-consciousness.
  • The argument explores, therefore, the presuppositions of this self-consciousness.
  • It's with no small amount of self-consciousness that you write or read - or, jeepers, review - a book on snobbery.
  • In sum, even though the rabbinic semiotics of the body open the gate towards a remarkable self-consciousness about the potential ambiguity of its signs, the same system manages to maintain its fundamental gender binarism in Jewish law. Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse.
  • The weight of history is evident both in the presence of the numerous national collections, and in the self-consciousness of the city's layout of monuments in the surrounding area.
  • It must be regretted that no indication in his book, so far as it professes to deal with facts and with [190] persons not within the circle of his clients, would justify a belief that its wanton misstatements have filtrated through a mind entitled to declare, with the authority of self-consciousness, what a gentleman would or would not do under given circumstances. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
  • And so the self-consciousness drained away, and soon she entered galleries eagerly, freely. LOST CHILDREN
  • The urge to invent oneself begins early and is perhaps coeval with the advent of any sort of self-consciousness.
  • Self-consciousness then began to shape its social world too, a process culminating in the discovery that reason is sovereign over everything.
  • I'm completely unartistic, but doing it in the semi-dark means I can let go of my self-consciousness long enough to have fun.
  • Moreover, the principle of linguistic self-consciousness or reflexivity seems to be made even more explicit when transposed to the narrative model.
  • It was not vanity so much as the self-consciousness of a shy man who had spent his entire adult life in the spotlight. The Sun
  • His smile is crooked, but he smiles frequently and without self-consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
  • The urge to invent oneself begins early and is perhaps coeval with the advent of any sort of self-consciousness.
  • Ridicule is a decidedly more entertaining version of the genre with the grace to flash us some intelligence and self-consciousness.
  • The name of Victoria gives you a clever, quick, analytical mind, but you suffer with a great deal of self-consciousness, lack of confidence, and much aloneness because of misunderstandings.
  • The inbreak of self-consciousness brought out the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
  • This was unsatisfactory because the external object is something foreign or hostile to self-consciousness.
  • Even if it were possible for self-consciousness to be illusory, its mere occurrence is enough to refute those who take the view that the notion of a substantival self is as 'meaningless' as the notion of an unknowable substratum of material things. Campbell on Self-Consciousness and the Substantival Self
  • This triad is the area within the psyche that is capable of self-consciousness and choice.
  • Such clauses reflect a growing English self-consciousness, partly expressed in linguistic terms.
  • This second abstraction, "thrown off" by our pure self-consciousness just as the first one is "thrown off" by our pure reason, becomes therefore an intervening monad which exists midway between the monad which is pure "subject" -- if that can be called a monad at all -- and the actual individual soul which is the living reality of both these thought-projections. The Complex Vision
  • Most of all biology must produce a post-reductionist theory that takes into account the conscious meaning of ethical issues, something more than a behaviorist calculus of causal mechanics substituting for the emergent self-consciousness of ethical / ethicizing 'man'. Darwiniana
  • I see hungry eyes following her, I feel her self-consciousness mounting. CHAMELEON
  • In the god, or deva, realm one is more ‘blissed-out,’ and the pleasure here is more of a sense of meditative absorption, a self-consciousness, a mental state of swelling on one's own ego.
  • The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure.
  • Holland pursues an old-time Americana sound, without the academic self-consciousness or the intrusive musicianly flair that often soils such endeavours.
  • With her roguish good humor and her unself-consciousness, she has a presence that simply pops.
  • His lyrics are incisive and true without self-consciousness or contrivance, yet tackle subject matter as diverse as socio-political commentary to lovelorn heartbreak as skilfully as the best in the genre.
  • It seemed to take an eternity to reach the landing, and her heart palpitated with self-consciousness.
  • Ridicule is a decidedly more entertaining version of the genre with the grace to flash us some intelligence and self-consciousness.
  • Other commentators, unlike Clark, cite their favoured items of behavioural evidence for self-consciousness as if they were authoritative without further argument.
  • If there was a little hesitation and diffidence as the games began, it soon vanished without a trace, for even the kids who seemed shy, lost their self-consciousness and joined wholeheartedly in the activities.
  • To conjure your "daimon" or consult your "genius" is comparably to enter into that dialogue which constitutes self-consciousness for Post-Secular Conviviality
  • The meat of the story revolves around the following thesis statement: "It may well be the case that it was the cultivation of psychotropic substances rather than foodstuffs that prompted the initial development of agriculture, while fungal hallucinogens like psilocybin and muscarine were probably the catalyst responsible for the initial development of human self-consciousness. Archive 2008-03-01
  • A sudden flush of self-consciousness twitches at the ubiquitous teenage angst and she tugs at the frayed hem of her puffball skirt.
  • A wave of self-consciousness can wash over her when someone new enters the room.
  • Tear down the walls of self-consciousness in your mind, rip to shreds all the self-defeating messages you torture yourself with all the time.
  • Self-consciousness arises with the identification of other visuo-tactual continuants as resembling the central body in being the sources of signs.
  • Based on the current achievements in philosophy of mind and neuroscience, the author explores the brain death problem by the conception of self-consciousness.
  • I see hungry eyes following her, I feel her self-consciousness mounting. CHAMELEON
  • When, in 1809, Finland became a grand duchy of the tsarist empire, the first seeds of national self-consciousness were sown.
  • The romantic ego is, then, on one level, a performer or faker, a legend in its own lunchtime, without any of the centred self-consciousness of great actors or good writers who have something to say.
  • His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness.
  • What I ended up not liking, actually detesting with a burning passion, was the sheer wretchedness of the text in the piece and the excessive self-consciousness in which they made reference to the painterly/artistic process.
  • The best psychological place from which to speak is an unselfconscious self-consciousness, providing the illusion of being natural.
  • I may have been ever so much an exception in acuteness of observation, powers of comparison, and abnormal self-consciousness; none the less were my thoughts and conduct typical of the attitude of the intelligent immigrant child toward American institutions. The Promised Land
  • The Son is the heart of the Father -- God as Person -- the outspringing Joy of the total triumphing Reality, [14] and through this eternal movement toward self-consciousness and Personality, God becomes Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
  • He was rewarded by seeing Maggie let her work fall, and gradually get so absorbed in his wonderful geological story that she sat looking at him, leaning forward with crossed arms, and with an entire absence of self-consciousness, as if he had been the snuffiest of old professors, and she a downy-lipped alumna. II. First Impressions. Book VI—The Great Temptation
  • ‘I dreamt about you last night,’ he tells her, and she's suddenly prickling with curiosity and self-consciousness.
  • The inbreak of self-consciousness brought OUT the facts of his inner life into ritualistic and afterwards into intellectual forms. Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
  • But once you let go of that self-consciousness, you can interact without it getting in the way.
  • His smile is crooked, but he smiles frequently and without self-consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps alterity has become such a blind spot in historicism generally because it simultaneously serves as a proxy for "accuracy" and self-consciousness. The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
  • Matthew Broderick, who voices the title mouse of The Tale of Despereaux, admits to approaching his voice with the self-consciousness of someone hearing himself on an answering machine for the first time. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories
  • In this summer's sequel, Iron Man 2, Downey takes unwinking self-consciousness to heights where he can be visited only by Bill Murray. The Brainy Blockbuster
  • Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative.
  • We do not see the birth of God as much as the genesis of a certain masculinization of desire, the harnessing or transformation of (feminized) longing into the dialectical work of (masculine) self-consciousness, or what Hegel calls, in the Phenomenology, "Desire in general" (para. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
  • The occasional acknowledgement of the audience jolts you into an uneasy self-consciousness.
  • Kiarostami gives a twist to neo-realism, however, a transforming twist of Modernist self-consciousness, and this, too, has influenced other Iranian film-makers, including Makhmalbaf.
  • The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure.
  • Honeydripper," set in rural Alabama in 1950, conveyed a similar aura of being too enraptured with its subject for its own good, although it must be said that given the immensity of rock mythology, such self-consciousness in a nondocumentary may be unavoidable. Expecting Rain
  • Morrison's poems combine sophisticated self-consciousness with stylistic primitivity -- one of contemporary poetry's most appealing hybrid combinations (C.D. Wright, Jorie Graham, D.A. Powell), which, at its best, makes for a potent representation of interior vertigo. Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?
  • Finally, to make the whole matter clear, let me repeat that this event, the inbreak of Self-consciousness, took place, or began to take place, an enormous time ago, perhaps in the beginning of the Neolithic Age. Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
  • Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia. THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
  • Sir W. Hamilton has discussed how far we can be said to be conscious of the outer objects which we know, and how far "consciousness" ought to be held a term restricted to states of self or self-consciousness. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Ridicule is a decidedly more entertaining version of the genre with the grace to flash us some intelligence and self-consciousness.
  • In the instance that Anybody Else happens to be equipped with a clipboard, a chart, a disapproving frown and a Y chromosone, the hate turns into innard-melting self-consciousness. Bluemeany Diary Entry
  • Further, self-centeredness, self-consciousness, and self-contradiction are not wholly reducible to self-delusion in these narratives.
  • For a long time they were content to walk together in the evenings, or to sit side by side on a bench in the park, neither uttering a word for an hour at a time, merely gazing into each other's eyes, too faintly luminous in the starshine to be a cause for self-consciousness and embarrassment. Chapter 2
  • My self-consciousness assumes heroic dimensions, and I begin to regard what is to come with a kind of daemonic humour. The Indian Lily and Other Stories
  • Self-consciousness affects us all in different ways - some revel in an unusual hooter and some wilt under the spotlight.
  • ‘Mrs. Barnet was very well when I left home,’ the other answered constrainedly, exchanging his meditative regard of the horse for one of self-consciousness. Wessex Tales
  • Perhaps a better definition of eccentricity is not whimsicality for its own sake, but a lack of self-consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
  • This meaning, from our Occidental viewpoint, is best translated in the term liberation, signifying to be set free from the limitations of sense, and of self-consciousness, and to have glimpsed the larger area of consciousness, that takes in the very cosmos. Cosmic Consciousness
  • In this, he typifies the characters on Dawson's Creek who never really live because their self-consciousness always interjects itself.
  • Often perplexing to new or non-hoopers, I define this quality as a state in which the hoopdancer’s movements radiate unimpeded from a fully integrated place – no veil of self-consciousness or doubt interposes between the dancer and the movement. Hooping.org | Blog | Inside The Hoop: Ann Humphreys
  • I do however remember with all the hot vividness of adolescent self-consciousness that, as soon as I had money to buy my own clothes, I learned to appreciate a good cut and quality material.
  • The romantic ego is, then, on one level, a performer or faker, a legend in its own lunchtime, without any of the centred self-consciousness of great actors or good writers who have something to say.
  • Perhaps a better definition of eccentricity is not whimsicality for its own sake, but a lack of self-consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
  • The appearance of man in evolutionary history marks the emergence of self-consciousness and has added to the earth, superimposed as it were upon the biosphere, a new dimension, the noosphere, or domain of thought.
  • Other commentators, unlike Clark, cite their favoured items of behavioural evidence for self-consciousness as if they were authoritative without further argument.
  • There is no hint of self-consciousness from this writing, no whiff of labour or toil.
  • His band wear their piupiu with an odd mix of pride and self-consciousness.

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