Sentence examples for Slightly self-conscious from inspiring English sources

Maybe it was slightly self-conscious.

"THE AMERICAN PROMISE" is earnest and slightly self-conscious.

As Scarpia, Grant Youngblood makes a slightly self-conscious villain.

It sounds exactly like a comic-strip sigh - world-weary, slightly self-conscious, a touch truncated.

Yet one could find "Daylight Savings Time" slightly self-conscious in its ingenuity.

"One thing I'll admit to," she says with a slightly self-conscious laugh.

The same can't quite be said for the team's slightly more self-conscious scores for "Gigi" and "Camelot".

On the Williamsburg side, slightly more self-conscious restaurants are common, though a walk of almost any length to Peter Luger Steakhouse (178 Broadway) is worth it.

Makkai's first book was a book about readers, but it was also a self-professed love letter to Nabokov that was slightly too self-conscious to carry off the comparison.

There was a wonderful feeling of play - 'Hey, we can do it, we're free!' And then we became slightly more self-conscious about that freedom as time went on, and we began to think, 'Where do we go from here?

Dr. Michaelson runs separate classes like this for the girls partly because they feel slightly less self-conscious in groups of the same gender.