This tickles her; she thinks of herself as a shy person, and when you praise her work, a self-conscious hand rises to cover her eyes and smile.
And whenever she was anxious or too self-conscious her hand would rise repeatedly to her forehead to brush away an imaginary strand of hair, a gentle, fluttering motion that would continue long after the source of stress had vanished.
There is a sympathy in the way Chinnery presents them that is rare in portraiture of the period; the boy is looking straight at the viewer with a self-conscious stance, hand on hip, while the girl looks uncomfortably at the floor.
Four (15%) facilities reported manually capturing conscious animals ("hand-catching"); 2 (8%) facilities performed intrapalpebral tuberculin skin tests on conscious animals (Table).
A well-pondered choice and conscious consent go hand in hand.
The question of which lineages (species, or more inclusive groupings such as class or phylum) of animals are conscious, inevitably goes hand-in-hand with considerations of the evolutionary origin of consciousness.
He talks in a free-form, stream-of-conscious manner, hands in motion, peppering his soliloquies with references to Baudelaire, or to the history of the Eiffel Tower, or to the beauty of the New York Street grid.
"If you go anywhere else, you feel self-conscious holding hands with your partner but not here".
"Do you wish to change your gown?" She smoothed the fabric with her free hand, conscious of the dust from riding, but her fingers, when they reached her waist, recalled the warmth of Moray's hand upon that place, and suddenly she did not wish to change her gown just yet, as though by doing so she stood to lose the memory of his touch.
He sat with her, talked with her, helped her to eat and, when she was not conscious, held her hand and talked to her.
