How To Use Unconsciously In A Sentence

I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred. Captivity
Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses.
Andrew smiled unconsciously and reached out the back of his hand to stroke away stray hairs.
He tested its balance almost unconsciously: lean too far to either side, and it slowed to acrawl. Achille's Choice

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It's a way of (consciously or unconsciously) weaseling out of actually taking responsibility for your actions.
Greek name perpetuated by the people and referring to this covering of hoary pines -- a name which the cartographers, arbitrary and ignorant as they often are, have unconsciously disguised. Old Calabria
Close by the stir of the great city, with all its fret and chafe and storm of life, in the desolate garden of that sombre house, and under the withering eyes of relentless Crime, revived the Arcady of old, -- the scene vocal to the reeds of idyllist and shepherd; and in the midst of the iron Tragedy, harmlessly and unconsciously arose the strain of the Pastoral Music. Lucretia — Complete
Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists said in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
They know the horse best and can identify crucial discrepancies, but may also unconsciously inhibit the vet's objectivity. Times, Sunday Times
His expression agitated me so that I unconsciously rose to my feet and warned him off with my fan; but he seemed rooted to the spot. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
For example, sometimes we find ourselves acting in uncharacteristic ways, many times unconsciously, just to support an external perception of who we are amongst others that is no longer true to our being. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » State of the Art of Reputation
The girl drew from her pocket a little green-leather sheath, worn at the edges to whity-brown, and out of that a pair of spectacles, unconsciously looking round the room for a moment as she did so, as if to ensure that no stranger saw her in the act of using them. The Hand of Ethelberta
From the edge of the small waves Somers heard one man talking to another, and the English tones — unconsciously he expected a foreign language — and particularly the peculiar educated – artisan quality, almost a kind of uppishness that there is in the speech of Australian working men, struck him as incongruous with their picking up the coal – cobs from the shore. Kangaroo
Mr. George Constable, filled in perhaps unconsciously from the author's own life; for he, no less than his friend, delighted in collecting relics, and in studying out the lines, prætoria, and general castrametation of the English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
The realisation that I had unconsciously begun to mistrust people on the basis of their skin colour sickened me.
Some spontaneous abortions, apparently, ‘can be seen as a woman's reproductive organs unconsciously deciding not to go ahead with this pregnancy’.
Every student of physiology is familiar with what is termed automatic action, with the tendency of cells to repeat vibrations originally set up by purposive action; thus are formed what we term habits, and we unconsciously repeat motions which at first were done with thought. Death—and After?
When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
Unconsciously she stretched a hand upwards to touch the short, pale blonde crop.
They quickly covered the distance from the barricade to the sedan, weaving around police cruisers and unconsciously avoiding all officers.
His belt buckle was digging into the soft skin of her stomach and she moved agitatedly, unconsciously provocative.
Six famous women who, albeit unconsciously, gave us a classic of school literature.
What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s Familiar Spanish Travels
I guess I took a roundabout route to it unconsciously.
The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all. Where are all the lesbians?
I think racism is unconsciously inherent in practically everyone.
Half unconsciously she slipped down to the ground and found a bed on the warm and dewless grass. We Can't Have Everything
But still, I found myself unconsciously avoiding him.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela
The syndrome involves patients unconsciously inventing false memories of childhood abuse under therapy and hypnosis.
Rather than being openly confrontational with his parents, he just quietly-and perhaps unconsciously-refused to comply with their demands.
Repeatedly, they unconsciously checked that the writing on their knickers was clearly visible above the low-slung waistlines of their denim skirts.
The castigatory sermon which Fräulein Rottenmeier had held in reserve for Heidi was put off till the following day, as she felt too exhausted now after all the emotions she had gone through of irritation, anger, and fright, of which Heidi had unconsciously been the cause. Heidi
This linking object unconsciously connects the lost person's image or mental representation with the mourner's corresponding self-image or representation.
It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry.
Chase stepped back and simply regarded me with an intent stare that made me squirm unconsciously.
I think racism is unconsciously inherent in practically everyone.
M'liss's readiness and brilliancy, of course, captivated the greatest number, and provoked the greatest applause, and M'liss's antecedents had unconsciously awakened the strongest sympathies of the miners, whose athletic forms were ranged against the walls, or whose handsome bearded faces looked in at the window. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
Yet most of us have already unconsciously surrendered to the more insidious aspects of modernity long before we even contemplate drawing our swords from their scabbards and inspecting them for rust.
Tarantino may be doing a pastiche of Kubrick's The Killing and other gangster pictures, but he is also, perhaps unconsciously, revisiting Sartre's hell.
Sensitive to atmosphere, Jolyon soon felt the latent antagonism between the boys, and was puzzled by Holly; so he became unconsciously ironical, which is fatal to the expansiveness of youth. In Chancery
The trainees will be learning unconsciously throughout the training anyway. Training with N.L.P.
He had been traveling astoop, partly because the burden of his years weighed heavy on his shoulders, partly as if his muscles had unconsciously reverted to the easy, slouching, climbing-stoop of the Kentucky mountaineer. In Old Kentucky
Just as some women grow up unconsciously drawn to men who remind them of their father, some men fetishize feet because of a former classmate who constantly played footsie under the table.
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed. Osho
Fleur remembered the crease under her chin and unconsciously jerked her neck backwards.
Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists said in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
She lit up a cigarette and began puffing at it unconsciously.
When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
It is this ancient wisdom that McGill and his colleagues are reflecting, no doubt unconsciously, when they allow for no transition stage between the honeymoon couple and those glamourless figures, Mum and Dad. The Art of Donald McGill
Iseult unconsciously reached a hand up to her disheveled hair and looked down at her rumpled dress.
Natural languages arise unconsciously, haphazardly, while artificial languages lack expressiveness.
He unconsciously leaned his ear towards the sound reverberating through the guitar and nodded as he tuned.
Laura's glowing face was fairly radiant with beauty, and her figure was unconsciously displayed in such a variety of bewitching attitudes and dainty postures, that even a pair of frisky kittens, that had been chasing each other round the grassplot and up and down the stems of the cherry-trees, ceased their gambols and lay still, crouching in the grass, and watching her graceful motions, as if taking heed for future imitation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Just as the patient unconsciously fears a fatal or degenerative disease, so do you, the carer. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
Unconsciously, her hands worked to take off her small pearl earrings as she entered her room and closed the door behind her.
All unconsciously the ideas they derive from the printed page are stored up.
For example, the systems in the brain that control hormone secretion are completely unconsciously controlled.
We unconsciously feel hand signs and gestures to be efficacious in aiding the establishment of a contact with higher intelligences and requesting their intercession. Hand Signed | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Semic analysis is an operation readers perform unconsciously when they identify in a text verbal derivations from a key word's semantic features, the semes.
The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
While Episcopalianism stands at a crossroads at present, that which remains of their traditional liturgy has become almost unconsciously Catholicized in the past century.
No person of independent mind will copy consciously, but many copy unconsciously.
she jumped up unconsciously when he entered the room
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed. Osho
The realisation that I had unconsciously begun to mistrust people on the basis of their skin colour sickened me.
This may unconsciously handicap me in appraising the project in terms of the general interest of Canada. Hydro and the St. Lawrence
a new power! we feel a vague sympathy with _that_ unknown region which spreads beyond this great net, -- _that limitless beyond_ hath a mystic affinity with a part of our own frame; we unconsciously extend our wings (for the soul to us is as the wings to the fly!); we attempt to rise, -- to soar above this perilous snare, from which we are unable to crawl. Devereux — Complete
Unconsciously she reached for her paints and unguents, seeking to repair the damage her instant of terror had caused to her perfect face.
When we "cede" authority to anyone, they are certain to make mistakes and/or consciously or unconsciously use their power to promote special interests. Do Progressives Believe This?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Sobran seems to be unaware that lists of parallels such as he provides have long been looked at very skeptically in attribution studies, since writers in any era consciously or unconsciously influence each other and draw on common sources. Archive 2009-10-01
Young people unconsciously conform to a dress code but reject any kind of uniform.
Mothers are a big influence on their daughters and if they display feelings of technophobia, some girls may unconsciously adopt similar feelings. Global Voices in English » Africa: Will technophobia crash the ICT party?
She unconsciously projected what she was thinking, and part of him wanted to know what she was feeling.
The figures populating the works of Hamsun, whether centrally placed or moving shadowlike in the periphery, are first of all themselves — agressively, inevitably, unconsciously so, Knut Hamsun: From Hunger to Harvest
Young people unconsciously conform to a dress code but reject any kind of uniform.
George regarded him silently, his nostrils distending and his lean fingers unconsciously crooking like an eagle's talons about to clutch. CREATED HE THEM
She unconsciously marked each day off on her desk calendar in her office.
When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
I unconsciously syllogized thus: 'All red flannel has threads of warp and woof and a rough texture, caused by the coarse fibres of wool curling up stiffly; this is a piece of red flannel; hence this will be found to have these properties.' Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8
By so doing he will rescue his own brother, too, and enable him to return home to his father a free man, all quite unwittingly, -- as in so many cases before now a man has often done more good unconsciously than wittingly. sed inscientes sua sibi fallacia ita compararunt et confinxerunt dolum itaque hi commenti, de sua sententia ut in servitute hic ad suom maneat patrem: ita nunc ignorans suo sibi servit patri; 50 homunculi quanti sunt, quom recogito! haec res agetur nobis, vobis fabula. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
Instead, he sat down on the edge of the bed, unconsciously cradling his right hand in the left. Times, Sunday Times
He argued that conscious anti-Semites, especially "the 'unadjusted' veterans," would identify unconsciously with the GIs: "just demobilized, ordinary, white native Protestant, 'our kind, '— a band of comrades with battle records, plagued by the unhappinesses and insecurities of that new, troubling No Man's Land between war and postwar. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
This gentleman also, in common with the rest of his tonnish brethren, is now daily, though unconsciously, hoarding up Camilla
I was getting angry, my hands unconsciously clenching and unclenching.
I was very unsure of myself after the divorce," she says, unconsciously sweeping back the curls from her forehead.
This man that Sally had spoken of so unconsciously was _her brother_ -- at least, he was brother enough to her by blood to make that thought a blade to penetrate the core of her mother's soul. Somehow Good
It all comes about as deliberately, if unconsciously, contrived.
The "guests", FBC, DIRTY STRAGGLER and whomsoever is available are doing whatever the late capon bourgeoisie do at a gathering for a holidaymaker mealtime: Greeting those they haversack't met in a few monthlies, looking at or taking photographers and unconsciously "consenting to exist" as a Romanian would say. Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela
Yet charitable readers will believe that in the following sentence demiss has slipped unconsciously from a learned pen: Archaism.
Artem rested an elbow on the railing behind him, unconsciously taking the position one of my tutors frequently assumed when about to launch into a long lecture.
When a superior commands with over-much gentleness and circumspection, besides the fact that he compromises his authority and causes it to be slighted, he so attracts and attaches his inferior to himself that often unconsciously he robs God of the devotedness which is His due. The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
The creases around his mouth deepened and he unconsciously drummed his fingers on the table.
I think racism is unconsciously inherent in practically everyone.
Can no inventor make something to do this -- something to lie in the palm and bring all colours and divisions of colour ready made to the finger tips so that you might put them down in a revelry of colour as unconsciously and freely as the improvisator can use the notes on the piano to express his feeling. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
She was leaning forward, her eyes were unconsciously drilling into the soft neck of the woman in front of her. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
So while the South thus early was seeking to frighten the North from the agitation of the slavery question in Congress, Garrison was unconsciously preparing a countercheck by making it dangerous for a Northern man to practice Southern principles in the National Legislature. William Lloyd Garrison
Assuming that appeals to providential history have been successfully banished from the repertoire of secular progressivism, surely the same ban must apply to the religious thought from which progressives once unconsciously and incautiously borrowed. Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism
It is this ancient wisdom that McGill and his colleagues are reflecting, no doubt unconsciously, when they allow for no transition stage between the honeymoon couple and those glamourless figures, Mum and Collected Essays
George regarded him silently, his nostrils distending and his lean fingers unconsciously crooking like an eagle's talons about to clutch. CREATED HE THEM
This admission involves, consciously or unconsciously, the admission of all the principles contended for in 'Life and Habit'; principles which, if admitted, make the facts of heredity intelligible by showing that they are of the same character as other facts which we call intelligible, but denial of which makes nonsense of half the terms in common use concerning it. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
To be unconsciously incompetent is far from blissful ignorance. Christianity Today
Telepathy commonly exists between persons in close sympathy; and when two persons are working along separate lines toward the same result, it is quite usual that they unconsciously "telepath" with one another, their brains being for the time in synchronous vibration. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance
He watched with intense interest the progress of the picture, calling the artist's attention to all Corwen's good points as though he were appraising her at a cattle sale, and an hour passed away quickly both to the artist and Shoni; but to Cardo and Valmai, what a golden hour! to stroll away together over the soft grass studded with buttercups, down to the edge of the cliffs, where they sat among the gorze bushes looking out at the rippling blue bay, silent from sheer happiness, but taking in unconsciously the whole beauty of the scene, for it was engraved upon their minds and often recalled in after years. By Berwen Banks
Every-day influence, so unconsciously exerted, is all important in forming the characters of children; and in nothing more important than in their manners. The Mother's Book
The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
As a regional trade intermediary, the prosperity of Cochin-china regional trade promoted unconsciously the development of the entire Asian trade network.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela
Unconsciously insincere, like the majority of people in their justificative confessions, Balzac often allowed his heart to intrude where it had no business to be present. Balzac
It is hard to say how this came about; perhaps because unconsciously she felt in Bazarov the absence of anything aristocratic, of all that superiority which at once attracts and overawes. Fathers and Sons
And I appreheud that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07
They unconsciously finish each other's sentences, and fearlessly embark on dizzying flights of fancy, more than confident they can talk each other down.
The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita. Short Reviews
I was very unsure of myself after the divorce," she says, unconsciously sweeping back the curls from her forehead.
Was the new design perhaps unconsciously modelled on the Sun newspaper, in an effort to achieve similar sales figures?
Unconsciously, by force of habit, she plugged the coffee pot in.
Unconsciously, by force of habit, she plugged the coffee pot in.
Greece was ceasing to be an unconnected crowd of little separate communities; unconsciously it was preparing itself for a larger destiny, that of conqueror and civiliser of East and West. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
Young people unconsciously conform to a dress code but reject any kind of uniform.
It is the picaresque story of an Irish adventurer who unconsciously reveals his villainy while attempting self-justification.
Rather than being openly confrontational with his parents, he just quietly-and perhaps unconsciously-refused to comply with their demands.
Jane, unconsciously, grabbed his hand and wrapped it between both of hers, soothing it with small, gentle strokes.
The savior's novice guard cape floated in the same direction as his hair and pants, and he unconsciously removed the new shield from its back straps.
The man shaving in his bathroom unconsciously nicks himself.
Moreover, the Bolsheviks, in continuing to see law principally as a means of defending the state, unconsciously served as perpetuators of Russian tradition.
You are, perhaps unconsciously, expecting some miraculous illapse of heavenly power and brightness into your soul; something apart from divine truth, and from the working of God's Way of Peace: A Book for the Anxious
Unconsciously, by force of habit, she plugged the coffee pot in.
He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name mingled with theirs in the daily newspapers. Framley Parsonage
She wished half unconsciously that Stephen Knight could see her, with hair looped in two great shining braids on either side her face, under the sequined chechia of sapphire velvet; and then she was ashamed of her own vanity. The Golden Silence
Blue-eyed men may have unconsciously learned to value a physical trait that can facilitate recognition of own kin," the scientists said in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Biases can creep in in extremely subtle ways, and researchers can, quite unconsciously, favour some groups and disfavour others.
A decision-maker may have unfairly regarded with disfavour one party's case either consciously or unconsciously.
They know the horse best and can identify crucial discrepancies, but may also unconsciously inhibit the vet's objectivity. Times, Sunday Times
He states that people suffering from low self-esteem can unconsciously drive their partner away, in hopes that they will receive a dose of reassurance.
The most complete human being is he or she who consciously or unconsciously obeys the profound physical laws of our being in such a way that the spirit receives much help and as little hindrance from the body as possible. Married Love: or, Love in Marriage
Does perfume, after-shave or body odour have an impact, consciously or unconsciously, on interview ratings? Times, Sunday Times
Humans can be bidialectal as easily as bilingual and can speak standard as well as Black English (which Obama does, and as Reid acknowledged); the dialect is now felt as a cultural hallmark, albeit often unconsciously; and so on. The New Republic - All Feed
Subsequently, our practice of selfless compassion may unconsciously transform into an exercise of martyrization to glorify the mentor and the lineage. Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship �� 16 Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Mentor
I unconsciously discovered the duality of interiorization and distancing between the creator and his artwork. Plastik media
Instead, he sat down on the edge of the bed, unconsciously cradling his right hand in the left. Times, Sunday Times
Still, perhaps by engaging in this active homicide fantasy, the shooter is unconsciously disinhibiting his otherwise dormant violent impulses toward other people.
Iseult unconsciously reached a hand up to her disheveled hair and looked down at her rumpled dress.
Although a lot of liberal pundits jumped on my speech at Orlando and said it showed I was a rhetorical hip-shooter who was recklessly and unconsciously provoking the Soviets into war, I made the “Evil Empire” speech and others like it with malice aforethought; I wanted to remind the Soviets we knew what they were up to. An American Life
Yes, those who err unconsciously, who can do so conscientiously, that is, those who have no suspicion of their being in error. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
And I apprehend that it is this exalting or etherealising attribute of beauty to which all poets, all writers who would poetise the realities of life, have unconsciously rendered homage, in the rank to which they elevate what, stripped of such attribute, would be but a gaudy idol of painted clay. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
A decision-maker may have unfairly regarded with disfavour one party's case either consciously or unconsciously.
Unconsciously, he quickened his pace a fraction and caught himself clenching and unclenching his fists as he walked.
In fact, Donna was an exemplified copy of that distinctive personality with which we unconsciously invest any young woman upon whose capable shoulders must fall such multifarious duties as those already described; particularly when, as in Donna's case, they are accepted and disposed of with the gentle, kindly, interested yet impersonal manner of one who loves her little world enough to be a very distinct part of it; yet, seeing it in its true light, manages to hold herself aloof from it; unconsciously conveying to one meeting her for the first time the impression that she was in San Pasqual on her own sufferance -- a sort of strayling from another world who had picked upon the lonely little desert town as the scene of her sphere of action for something of the same reason that prompts other people to collect postage stamps or rare butterflies. The Long Chance
‘You are so used to abbreviating things, you just start doing it unconsciously on schoolwork and reports and other things,’ said a student in New Jersey.
Unconsciously she shivered from a combination of the nipping wind that breathed against her skin and the gust of apprehension escaping her lips.
Unconsciously stagey in life, he is little stagier in Lucan. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving's _Legends of the Conquest of Spain; _ or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Familiar Spanish Travels
The machinery of personification was understood to have been unconsciously assumed as a mere expedient to supply the deficiencies of language; and the Mimansa justly considered itself as only interpreting the true meaning of the Mantras, when it proclaimed that, in the beginning, "Nothing was but Mind, the Creative Thought of Him which existed alone from the beginning, and breathed without afflation. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Many will be pretenders, consciously or unconsciously, because traditionalistic and idealistic models of the world serve their sexual interests.
Her eyes on his retreating form, a sigh of relief escaped Callie's slightly moist lips, and she swiped at them unconsciously.
The tendency to make this adjustment, either deliberately or more often unconsciously, is not greatly different for different political groups.
She unconsciously moved back a pace or two.
Martin could not help frowning for a moment, as if he were disposed to insinuate that the gentleman had unconsciously 'darned' himself. Martin Chuzzlewit
Beside her, Luke stirred briefly, his hand curving round her waist to draw her closer, and unconsciously she stiffened.
The white beard, with "each particular hair" defined, falling almost to the pale, lean hands, is an essential part of the presentment, which is full of such scrupulous detail as the eye would unconsciously take note of in confronting the man himself and afterward supply in the remembrance of the whole. Roman Holidays, and Others
Crossing the bridge over the river Isuzu and passing beneath the first torii, he finds himself unconsciously lapsing into silence, preoccupied with the sound he is making…
Unconsciously, she slowly began to lean forward, reaching her hand out towards his face.
I smiled unconsciously it was a weird name but somehow it actually suited my little monster perfectly.
His first instinct was to find her, but as he pulled his hand from his clothing, the wave of pain assaulted him once again, only to stop when he once more found the cloth wrapped bundle he had grasped unconsciously before. Caribou House « A Fly in Amber
Am I like one of those big-gobbed whales that hoover up the plankton as they unconsciously swim through it? From The Archive: Turn Your Computer Off, Now
Return sae dowf and wearie O! How noble that is, how natural, how unconsciously Greek! Letters to Dead Authors
Its transcendental aspirations -- still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell -- were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
For example, an experienced ticket checker would have unconsciously learnt to look for telltale signs to correctly identify a ticketless traveller.
Even the sisters in the Hippo nunnery were warned that a woman can unconsciously and unintentionally throw a man off balance merely by a flashing eye.
The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel's fellow criminals quite ridiculous.
For example, an experienced ticket checker would have unconsciously learnt to look for telltale signs to correctly identify a ticketless traveller.
Having freed himself from fine-gentlemanism, he had quite unconsciously fallen the more easily a prey to fine-ladyism; all his conservatism had gone into that, as a man, forced to give up his garden, might cherish one lovely potted plant. The Happiest Time of Their Lives
The Strozzi work addresses all of this and more and is based in Aikidoand somatics (looking at the whole person: a unity of language, action, energy, and meaning), so it gets into how we respond unconsciously beyond just "thinking. Susan Harrow: Changing Your Body Changes Your Self
It is simply a question of a country, perhaps unconsciously, following the wrong policies.
They know the horse best and can identify crucial discrepancies, but may also unconsciously inhibit the vet's objectivity. Times, Sunday Times
No person of independent mind will copy consciously, but many copy unconsciously.
To be unconsciously incompetent is far from blissful ignorance. Christianity Today
The practitioner, in turn, may consciously or unconsciously convey this information to the patient.
If you go on condemning, your condemnation shows that somewhere there is a wound, and you are feeling jealous - because without jealousy there can be no condemnation. You condemn people because somehow, somewhere, unconsciously you feel they are enjoying themselves and you have missed. Osho
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela
In daytime when the Market draws crowds they unconsciously intermingle, shoulder to shoulder, with the resident homeless, poor, and druggies, who seem amused and are certainly not frightened off. Homeless Group Says It Will Protest Salmon Bake « PubliCola
I think the apocalypse is a burden that the cultures of religion, nuclear war and physics (the Big Bang implies an ending, and we find it hard to think about what may be the case, no start and no end) all unconsciously participated in creating. A Climate of Opinion
Maybe this is why - albeit unconsciously - the designers of these purely utilitarian structures managed so effectively to make them resemble places of worship. Times, Sunday Times
Pushy and overenthusiastic parents may consciously or unconsciously hinder their children's development and make them more prone to early burnout and mental fatigue.
I-- _I_," she cried at length, her black eyes holding me as I stood, weak and faint, clinging unconsciously to the coffin for support. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
When we opened on the former things good record,the face will unconsciously reveal the truth's smile.
The characters will begin consciously or unconsciously making preparations for the “journey” or adventure that they will be undergoing throughout the tale. Secrets from Blueprints
The complexity is too subtle, too varied; the values are changing utterly with each lesion of vitality; it has begun to appear that we can learn nothing from the past with which to face the future — so we cease to be impulsive, convincible men, interested in what is ethically true by fine margins, we substitute rules of conduct for ideas of integrity, we value safety above romance, we become, quite unconsciously, pragmatic. The Beautiful and Damned
The kind of look that makes a husband's shoulders sag, shrivels his soul, maybe even makes him wish unconsciously for an early death. Charlie Carillo: That Look on Her Face
Perhaps there'll even be a couple of sleeve fetishists unconsciously drawn to the lovely gatefold packaging.
:: i am going to invest in some more "teacherly" clothing. however, since it seems that i am losing weight unconsciously and ridiculously frugal, i will just visit the thrift store this weekend. Kameelahwrites
This is an excellent analysis indeed of why the unconsciously faking dowser is not aware of how he/she is producing the movement of the dowsing device.
His eyes flashed with anger for a moment, making Gwen step back unconsciously.
King rode all but last now and had a good view of their unconsciously vaunted blackguardism. In The Time Of Light
The two opposing sides had unconsciously arranged themselves on either side of the long wooden table near the fireplace. TREASON KEEP

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