"It's a conscious move," Anthony Bourdain lamented when I spoke to him.
"Brexit by design is one thing – a conscious move out of the EU with all that would entail.
This book is a conscious move into a more burdened space and perhaps, as he implies in "Younger", the price is a loss of insouciance.
There's the old theory to confront, that this is a conscious move on the part of consumers and, if so, there's always a theoretical opt-out.
"1Q84" is much longer, but also far more conventional.Like two American writers, Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, both known for their fizzy inventiveness but whose recent work is more plot-driven, Mr Murakami seems to have made a conscious move towards romantic narrative.
Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIN HIS mid-50s Ian McEwan made a conscious move to distance himself from his fellow British novelists, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Salman Rushdie, with a series of "state of the nation" novels that self-consciously brought together current affairs, science, morality and sex.
Was that a conscious move on your part?
Is it a conscious moving away from country?
This is owed, in no small part, to a conscious move by President Obama to open his hand to the Iranian nation during his first days in office.
Looking back, Smith felt that the album's pervasive mood gave him "a reputation for being a really dark, depressed person", and said that he later made a conscious move toward more diverse moods in his music.
Short talks as if him promoting hatred of women is intangible and not a conscious move to condone, support, dictate and direct men to violate a gender while they bump his base track.
