More important, she finally feels comfortable in her own skin and sinewy limbs, in the same body that made her so self-conscious whether she was dancing or just walking down a school hall.
Even if said in a joking fashion, things like this can make a girl feel very self-conscious, whether you are referring to her or to someone else.
Such laws would not depend on whether conscious creatures ever happened to evolve, in which case, arguably, evolution poses no special problem (Chalmers 1996, 171).
Mr. Greenberg, too, is fully conscious that whether on Broadway stages or in uptown salons, they seldom make 'em like Julie anymore.
Obama's "distraction" and McCain's "my friends," by contrast, are not nervous tics; they're deliberate word choices reflecting conscious preference, whether used habitually or occasionally.
Ludwig Cramer-Klett, the half-Swiss, half-Bavarian owner, said by phone that he wants to offer dishes that reflect conscious thinking, whether it's about eating meat from "happy pigs" or vegan dishes.
I wrote a film script in the late 1990s [The Hours] that made me in demand suddenly in Hollywood and there was a very odd moment when I had to make a conscious decision whether I would either throw my lot in with the theatre or with the movies.
Economic deregulation has accompanied what may be called social deregulation, as issues that were not even considered decisions in the past have become issues of conscious choice: whether to get married and have children, or how to express oneself sexually, as gay, straight or somewhere in between.
He added that, in the case of Owen's vegetative patient who imagined playing tennis, it's impossible to know whether she reported the event to herself which would suggest that she is capable of conscious thought or whether, as in the case of the blindsight and neglect patients, she had no subjective awareness of the experience.
