As nutritious as a box of Cracker Jack and just as yummy, "Superman" was at once a goof and a self-conscious bid at modern mythmaking.
So there was not much in the way of vetting when he put in a cost-conscious bid to become Washington County's chief public defender, a part-time position he added to his private practice of trial work, debt collections, wills and divorces.
Every move he makes seems to be a conscious or subconscious bid to appear as heterosexual as possible, an aspiration many gay men can relate to.
Initially, Hawes's fifth novel is tediously self-conscious in its bid to make witty points about contemporary culture.
"I was very conscious in the recent BSkyB bid that however fairly I ran the process, people were always going to question my motives," he said.
In a bid for cost-conscious consumers, Target and J. C. Penney introduced their most aggressive free-shipping programs ever, and Sears, Toys R UsUs, Williams-Sonoma and others were trying to match the success of Amazon's shipping program, offering unlimited two-day shipping for an annual fee.
If Tom Brady stays healthy and Belichick stays conscious, the Patriots will make a bid for a third title in four years.
The family of an elderly devout Muslim who is in a minimally conscious state have lost their legal bid to prolong his life.
A considerable chunk of the wearable gizmos currently floating around on the market are centered solely on tracking user activity in a bid to make them more health-conscious.
And now, 15 years into a singularly strange career, Twista releases "Adrenaline Rush 2007," which is simultaneously a big-budget bid for radio play and a self-conscious throwback to "Adrenaline Rush," his excellent underground album from a decade ago.
What proved a bit trickier to bid farewell to, however, was the more body conscious stuff.
