Mr. Gibson, for example, sternly whips Jesus up to Golgotha until he is little more than an expressionless, barely conscious mass of blood and flesh.
"The result is a stream of conscious mass media psychedelia meltdown, which I like.
And that's something which will rankle the design-conscious masses of Mac users.
The Beetle's latest promotion - from its first job as a people's car, built to transport the cost-conscious masses - has created a vacancy for Volkswagen's latest basic model; the Up.
For the first time in history, he argued, the territories of the United States made up a self-conscious mass society.
You are standing in the fog on a train platform at six in the morning, in a half-conscious mass of people going to work, faces down, grunting and hiking bag straps onto their shoulders.
You are standing in the fog on a train platform at six in the morning, in a half-conscious mass of people going to work, faces down, grunting and hiking bag straps on their shoulders.
Charles Bovary's conversation is likened to a pavement, over which many people have walked; twentieth-century literature, violently conscious of mass culture, extends this idea of the self as a kind of borrowed tissue, full of other people's germs.
So should any environmentalist who can see the difference between their honest concern about industrial chemicals and conscious purposeful mass murder.
It's succeeding at providing relatively cheap forms of mild distraction for ever-larger masses of fashion-conscious people whose budgets cover dinner at PizzaExpress, but not works of art.
An Alabama woman agreed: "Never before have we had leaders in the White House to whom we felt we could go with our problems, for never before have our leaders seemed conscious of the masses," she declared.
