Murray is also self-aware.
He was also self-aware enough to recognise "a bit of animosity" towards his return.
As irascible, self-interested and obdurate as he could be, Mr. Davis was also self-aware.
Super Mario is a bit of both: he's arrogant, but also self-aware; conscious of the narrative that's formed around him, but also able to shape it.
The difference is significant, because I don't think that sentient creatures have a personal interest in continuing to live, unless they are also self-aware beings.
It's also self-aware – on discussing how terrible adolescence actually is, a character ponders, "I don't know why they keep making movies and TV shows about it".
In both cases, the heroines are challenged and constrained by the requirements of tradition, but they are also self-aware and free to choose, however painful the choices.
If you're the kind of person who looks at the names above the titles, Say Anything is one of the first showcases for the John Cusack persona: nerdy, wisecracking, anxious, but also self-aware and oddly attractive.
Who knew!" As the title of his show suggests, Amstell wants to be free, but he is also self-aware enough to know that striving for freedom can be self-serving and, ultimately, imprisoning.
Straw has an ear for anecdote and quotation, and is honest about his difficult early life; self-justifying but also self-aware about his record, including as Foreign Secretary during the Iraq war.
High-minded yet also self-aware, Mr. Schreiber not only hired Muthana — everyone calls him by his first name — to work on "Everything Is Illuminated" as an intern; he also engaged Nina Davenport to make a video documentary about his new Iraqi hire, rightly intuiting that this story might lead somewhere interesting.
