One is made self-conscious as one stands momentarily in the dark.
He was also set apart and made self-conscious by his childhood alopecia, which left him totally hairless for life.
"Long before the advent of the Internet, and in an era of a handful of television stations, people made self-conscious choices among newspapers and radio stations".
If it's a new and golden age of television, as so many presenters insisted, you couldn't tell from the host, Neil Patrick Harris, who treated the Emmys like the Tonys and made self-conscious jokes about the precariousness and even irrelevance of classic television in the era of on-demand premium cable and Internet streaming.
When he narrowed the sound down to clavichord-like thinness, made self-conscious pauses between variations, pushed tempi to slow and fast extremes, and used a lot of rubato, especially in slower variations, any sense of an overriding pulse was lost.
But Voltaire and Lenny Bruce, they didn't make self-conscious folk rock.
Jihadi poetry circulates online and makes self-conscious use of the genres, metres, and language of classical Arabic verse.
By Robyn Creswell and Bernard Haykel Jihadi poetry circulates online and makes self-conscious use of the genres, metres, and language of classical Arabic verse.
At the movies the found-footage "reality" horror picture has become a subgenre in its own right — so much so that "Catfish," a bona fide documentary, makes self-conscious use of "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity" techniques.
JT: Yeah, it bummed me out only because it made people self conscious about the joke.
Being shy or coy will only make them self conscious, which will make the experience worse for both of you.
