Sentence examples similar to conscious playing from inspiring English sources

In Charing Cross Road, a group of passengers came to sit upstairs and I felt self-conscious playing the film aloud.

Indeed, it is curious how musicians who might be self-conscious playing themselves on film find it easy to play fictional musicians who they are as similar to as plectrums in a gig-bag.

We all felt a little self-conscious playing these games, watching them, covering them, booing, cheering at a time of national alarm, treating ourselves to the luxury of an expensive night out at the ballpark, a tradition that must seem so extravagant in parts of the world where our ways may appear peculiar.

At the same time, it is a very conscious play on floor-bound sculpture; a refusal of the normative.

Mr. Wesker's early, socially conscious plays "Chicken Soup With Barley" (1958) and "The Kitchen" (1957) were revived to acclaim last year at the Royal Court and the National Theaters.

With her movie, Wiig is making a conscious play for above-the-title stardom, yet according to Apatow, "she tended to enjoy writing for other people more than herself".

Their ideal of acting derived from their days in the Group Theatre, which had flourished in the thirties with brashly vernacular and politically conscious plays — Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty" was its first big hit — in which ordinary people were portrayed in a startlingly realistic style.

The title of 1975's Radio-Activity was a conscious play on words, exploring two revolutions made possible by early-20th-century science – radio transmission (the potential of communication) and the process of atom-splitting (the potential of the nuclear bomb).

Although his parents were agnostic, Hoban stayed home from school on Jewish holidays and says his father was part of the cultural and political Jewish scene in the city; he was also a director of a drama guild where Hoban would occasionally have small parts in Yiddish classics and socially conscious plays about the depression.

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We've been extremely conscious of playing defense the right way.