This makes for a more self-conscious immersion.
That was a more self-conscious exercise, braiding documentary with fiction.
And I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning... ...... Yet beneath the happy façade runs a more self-conscious seam.
But last Friday some 250 academics and civilians gathered at Harvard for a more self-conscious exercise: a chance to take notes on note-taking.
Like Mamet, Russell understands that professional con artists are simply doing the same thing as everyone else but in a more self-conscious and calculated way.
I also stopped in at the Long Bar in the Sanderson Hotel, a more self-conscious scene in a new hotel designed by Ian Schrager.
Tracing Mr. Adams's lovelorn journey from New York to Nashville to Los Angeles, "Gold" is a more self-conscious attempt at greatness than "Heartbreaker".
It's a more self-conscious performance, with that slooooower British voice (actually, a prototype for Maggie), the black cloak and the frizzier-than-usual hair.
Lack of inhibition in children is touching (as is the patience of parents), but clothing decisions soon come to signal a more self-conscious ego.
For better or worse, traditions shift and dissipate; they're worn away by political and societal changes, they're replaced by a more self-conscious composition of influences and a more self-willed construction of identity.
The Hungarian band Besh o droM plays a more self-conscious but still adrenalized fusion of music from around and beyond the Balkans; on "Can't Make Me!" (Asphalt Tango), it tosses in jazz and flamenco guitar and hip-hop scratching among the cimbalom and saxophones.
