Sentence examples for be conscious only from inspiring English sources
The composer, he wrote, had "managed to suspend time, to make the listener lose all sense of orientation and to be conscious only of a continuum of melody that seems to have no beginning and that makes no demand for an ending".
It would be conscious only if accompanied by a (non-conscious) third-order thought or perception (cf. Rosenthal 1997, 745).
Thus, the thought that one wants a glass of beer is conscious only if one thinks that one wants a glass of beer.
He is conscious only of other people's sins, which are boundless, and a threat to the republic; and of other people's vulnerabilities and wounds, which he salts.
A 12-year-old is conscious only of immediate circumstances, and in Beah's case the arrival of the rebels in his small town meant sudden separation from his parents and months of indeterminate flight from danger with a handful of other boys.
These "images" are conscious only if, and inasmuch as, a conscious person sees then on the screen.
"On eBay the community will keep you in business if you do the right thing, and that's really rewarding," says Edery. "In the store we get people who are conscious only of price, and if someone down the street from you sells something for $10 less, you're done".
Still it probably does happen, and if it does the driver is conscious only in the sense that he or she is alert to the route, of oncoming traffic etc., i.e. is perceiving in the sense of 'coming to believe by means of the senses'.
It's one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen," it is so astonishingly perfect that a response to it is conscious only on one level.
