It's the conscious emphasis on the innate differences between these practices that makes this production so cohesive.
Thus, the postwar era was the age of the housing boom, the television boom, and the baby boom, of high birth and comparatively low divorce rates, of proliferating suburbs and a self-conscious emphasis upon family "togetherness".
"Selected Works" is a bit disappointing in its undoubtedly market-conscious emphasis on formally accomplished pictures, which make me realize that Neel's most elegant works tend to indicate her relative lack of emotional exchange with her subjects.
Holmes purists may find the non-Victorian pace not to their liking, but then there will be a whole smorgasbord of things to bother them, like Holmes's nicotine patches, the self-conscious emphasis on text messaging and the colors of cellphone cases.
Meeting here for their annual retreat, House Democrats appeared to be buoyed by Mr. Obama's State of the Union address, his new class-conscious emphasis on "fairness" for the middle class and his public castigation of Republicans for failing to cooperate on his agenda.
They shared the consultants' emphasis on patient focus and bottom-up processes, but differed by stating that a conscious group composition was more important than internal consultants or management support.
It was a conscious decision".
Everything is a conscious decision.
Was that a conscious decision?
