Sentence examples for consciously contained from inspiring English sources

But the razzmatazz at today's independence launch was consciously contained.

Consciously take the control back.

The knowledge contained in the Encyclopedia is self-consciously social both in its production – insofar as it is immediately the product of what the title page calls "a society of men of letters" – and in its address – insofar as it is primarily meant as an instrument for the education and improvement of society.

The "strange and awesome" possibility of America might be found, then, in its openness to the hustling spirit — to Talde's flair for inauthentic, upmarket versions of traditional recipes, which self-consciously echo the way his mom, like many of her generation, mastered the possibilities contained in a brick of Spam.

This would not be unthinkable in the 6th century, when the Athenian state still contained so many aristocratic features; after all, the Romans used sortition in this way, not as a consciously "democratic" procedure but as a way of resolving the competing claims of ambitious individuals.

Some sections are highly commercialized for the tourist trade; others, however, contain unself-consciously picturesque features such as the neighbourhood's winding lanes, some of which become stairways on the steeper hills.

Although mixing science fiction with fantasy was not popular with sf fans of the era, Palmer consciously promoted the magazine as containing the best of both worlds: the slogan on the cover read "The Best in Science Fiction", but Palmer also wrote blurbs in Amazing Stories for Fantastic Adventures in which he extolled the value to a reader of getting both genres in a single magazine.

Though shows like "Bamboo Blues" contain redolent moments, they also carry the uneasy whiff of cultural tourism, offering picturesque, self-consciously exotic portraits that have left some viewers (including this one) squirming a bit in their seats.

Continuing the example, we might imagine that after learning about the demotion of Pluto, Kai naturally turns his attention elsewhere, not consciously considering the matter for several days, until when reading an old science textbook he encounters the sentence "our solar system contains nine planets".

Husserl (1913/1982) offers an early phenomenal containment approach, arguing that we can at any time put our "cogitatio"—our conscious experiences consciously before us through a kind of mental glancing, with the self-perception that arises containing as a part the conscious experience toward which it is directed, and incapable of existing without it.

We consciously decided not to take this approach.