Sentence examples for consciously acting from inspiring English sources

One reason Great Expectations adapts so readily to the stage is the fact that so many of its characters are consciously acting out roles.

Specifically, UB is the phenomenon in which stereotypes, positive or negative, influence decisions and behaviors without the individual consciously acting on the stereotype or being aware that he or she is doing so.

I wasn't consciously acting.

That is the power of consciously acting on how one wants to feel.

Except for those few who are self-consciously acting out the rite of the letter in their e-mails, the e-mail is a fragment of a potentially infinite conversation.

(The one pop star whose audience might be said to bear a resemblance to Valentino's was Tom Jones, but the resemblance is only casual. Jones's women lacked the honest spontaneity of Valentino's hordes. The matrons who threw their underwear up onstage at Jones concerts were self-consciously acting out a ritual).

At the other extreme is the view that the state is a voluntary community, consciously organized, acting for the common good.

Following some self-consciously cartoonish acting at the beginning, the show finds its comic pace.

One issue is that free-market populists tend to only see problems where government is acting, consciously or unconsciously, to boost monopoly power.

If the code was being followed, it is likely that both men would have to have been acting consciously for the signals to continue.

Finally, this is, in an important sense, a class-struggle government – one acting consciously and directly on behalf of the rich.