• But is there a middle ground between angry, callused feet and the self-consciousness of sportswear commuting?

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  • Carried out without self-consciousness, it could have taken place at any time in the last thousand years.

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  • It was impossible to capture an image of me where I wasn't wracked by self-consciousness, my features askew.

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  • As long as he never went out, there was no crashing self-consciousness, no awareness of the outside world.

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  • It's exhilarating to discover a young writer with so much range and so little self-consciousness about exploring it.

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  • But self-doubt and soul-searching can be a pose just like anything else, and directness does not always prevent self-consciousness.

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  • She disrobes right there, in front of everyone, without a stitch of self-consciousness.

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  • Is this self-consciousness this creates simply a form of detachment, and if so, why do we need to feel so detached?

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  • To get past nervousness and self-consciousness and get to the stuff that you care about, and give that to the audience.

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  • The juvenile design is there to make users feel comfortable, Spiegel says, to harken back to a childhood free of self-consciousness.

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  • My main complaint about the sunbathing afternoons proved not to be self-consciousness.

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  • Henry is suddenly incapable of throwing accurately, undermined by paralytic self-consciousness, or, Harbach seems to be arguing, by the onset of adulthood itself.

    NEWYORKER: First Inning

  • Welles brought to the display his own willfully hyperexpressive and janglingly playful delight in technical wizardry, as well as impulsive exuberance, tragic self-consciousness, and reflexive immediacy.

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  • The most debilitating symptom of depression is obsessive self-consciousness: All our distractions fail us, and we just can't seem to find anything worth losing ourselves in.

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  • In fact the most debilitating symptom of depression is when life no longer produces anything that can free its victim from the dead weight of selfish self-consciousness.

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  • "I didn't have my first conversation until I was in graduate school, " said Mr. Lutz, whose self-consciousness and half-joking self-deprecation made Woody Allen seem like Albert Brooks.

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  • On the other, education exacerbated his self-consciousness about class, not least his self-confessed obsession with his own cultural proficiency compared to that of his peers, many of whom were solidly middle class.

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  • But he is kinder than the former, and less neurotic than the latter (whose own compassionate sensitivity got blocked by obsessive self-consciousness, or, when unblocked, sometimes emerged as outright sentimentality).

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  • Self-consciousness has also become a problem of late.

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  • What we really want is not selfish self-consciousness but selfless spontaneity, and the reason why purpose is so motivating is it draws us up and out of ourselves to a place where we escape our petty prison of selfishness.

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  • The remake muddies the waters with self-consciousness: Scorsese and the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, have loaded the movie with apparent moral ambiguities, facile ideas about guilt and redemption, and explicit attempts to portray the scuzzy villain as a mythic nemesis.

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  • The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thin material of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.

    NEWYORKER: The Visitor

  • But The Hobbit feels fearless and devoid of self-consciousness about expectations or anything other than excitement at telling its story, and at times almost seems to avoid any obvious choices or traditional perspectives in the approach to action and big reveals.

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  • The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, which means that the mediums were experiencing reduced focus, lessened self-awareness and fuzzy consciousness during psychography.

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  • For Deacon, the answer has to lie in a closer look at self-organizing processes and how the origins of life and consciousness are rooted in the constraints that bind and shape these processes as they build from the simplest self-assembly of molecules up to the emergence of the first life forms.

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  • He possesses a self-awareness and even a bit of social consciousness that comes through on tracks where he admits to past infidelities or laments the effects of the crack wars on black communities.

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  • Can this consciousness become an epi-phenomena of our technological self?

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