Sentence examples for central consciousness from inspiring English sources

Dorothy is both the film's protagonist and its central consciousness, its main character and a witness to the lives of her neighbors, all of whom are black.

"I meant her to be the focus of our attention, the central character," says Lee, "but not necessarily the central consciousness.

Built around a single central consciousness, they take on a subjective, modern, confessional tone that gives them immediacy and an oddly American flavor.

Adrien is the film's central consciousness and its narrator, and the personal price of his impending summer fling forms the core of Rohmer's moral psychology.

There's something Jamesian about the fifteen-year-old boy functioning as the movie's central consciousness, but Jamie himself hardly has a point of view.

It's a simple and clever conceit, but one that depends on an anchoring star who is, in effect, the Jamesian central consciousness.

But a team led by pioneering Stanford gliologist (I made that term up) Ben Barres, MD, PhD, has shown in the new study that astrocytes play a starring role in sculpting the very synaptic connections that are central to consciousness, cognition, motion and emotion.

But, as author Mary Gordon notes, "the flower child's sense of well being gradually disintegrated as Vietnam became more central to consciousness".

For Baumbach and Apatow, the substance of the movie mirrors their production: in effect, both directors have become the central cinematic consciousnesses for filming the performances and the scripts of prodigious younger writers and actors, Gerwig and Schumer.

In Sartre's model of intentionality, the central player in consciousness is a phenomenon, and the occurrence of a phenomenon just is a consciousness-of-an-object.

It is a bold new direction for the band, who rarely made social consciousness central to their music, even if N.E.R.D's very presence was political in itself.