Mr. Harvey did it the earnest way, with self-conscious banter and a faltering singalong.
They approach the sketches with self-conscious smiles on their faces.
Stars used to be given entrances and used to make them with self-conscious style.
Mr. Greenberg, however, seems hardly the type to blush and babble with self-conscious infatuation.
Tentatively, defensively, they circle each other, alternating facetious posturing with self-conscious yearning.
Between songs the two men bantered with self-conscious, Bob Newhartesque clumsiness, often about the clumsiness of their banter.
But the larger problem is that Mandanipour overwhelms his young protagonists with self-conscious literary references and metafictional high jinks.
And the narrative is peppered with self-conscious vox pops from anonymous extras like quotes in a naive GCSE essay on sexual politics.
Shot in a quasi-apocalyptic neverland near the shores of Boulogne, this religiously inflected parable from the troubling director of L'humanité is heavy laden with self-conscious stasis.
The tangles over Jupiter's royal prerogative are written with comic-book crudeness that the theatrical performances don't quite honor with self-conscious comedy.
The bar is often sprinkled with self-conscious new settlers, but the congregation of fortysomething regulars remains the soul of the place.
