Consequently, the coordination of all these decisions had to be consciously achieved by the planners.
"As with the work of any profound artist," Robert Towers notes, "an element of the mysterious – of the unspoken, the unacknowledged – hangs like a shining mist over all that has been consciously intended and consciously achieved".
Her quirkiness is perhaps too self-consciously achieved — we get a collection of whimsical recipes, including one for knitting baby socks — but the book is carried by the evocation of the country's bleak, moody beauty.
The case is called Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, and it addresses a legal challenge to two city school systems — Seattle's and Louisville's — for consciously trying to achieve racial integration in assigning students to particular schools.
This D major symphony, K297, is a unique document in Mozart's symphonic canon not just for what the three-movement work does musically, but for what it tells us about how Mozart played with his audience's expectations and reactions, how he consciously manipulated them to achieve the biggest possible effect on Paris's most prestigious stage for instrumental music.
In addition, some wishes seem to be expressed, consciously or unconsciously, to achieve a certain effect, either within the patient's internal emotional world or on other people.
Albertine, whether consciously or unconsciously, achieves this.
When used by writers, slang is much more consciously and carefully chosen to achieve a specific effect.
"There are two ways of achieving Internet fame — by consciously arranging the self to achieve recognition, or by being ascribed fame by others due to one's accomplishments". This is true of fame in general, and probably has been for millenniums.
I was leery of finding the train too self-consciously elegant, tricked out to achieve a pseudo-glamorous air like a prop from a Merchant-Ivory production.
Work exceptionally long hours when you need to or want to, but do so consciously, for specified time periods, and to achieve specific goals.
