Its tone is self-consciously low-key.
At times the telethon was perhaps a little too self-consciously low-key and somber.
A trombone solo is oddly stuck in the middle of a shambling country-rock tune; lush string orchestrations, Floyd Cramer piano chords and steel guitars, the ghosts of her Nashville past, are matched with self-consciously low-tech rhythm machines.
It arrived in 1997 with Bruno Dumont's La Vie de Jésus, a self-consciously low-key account of the life of an unemployed epileptic finch-fancier in one of the flatter and less prosperous parts of France.
By slowing down this process of optical fine-tuning, Donovan not only subtly fuses reductive, black/white abstraction with the baroque grandeur of the T's typography; in its self-consciously low-tech way, her art also reacquaints us with our concrete everyday existence.
Anneka Patel, a public relations executive who represents Samsung, said the company was consciously taking a low profile with its line of mobile phones, preferring to promote its other products.
I consciously maintained a low profile during my years at AOL. Steve is a natural when it comes to being the face of the company, and I am not.
"We have consciously kept the power low," Coleman said.
His latest endeavour is a low-fi, consciously underwhelming, ongoing Instagram project attempting to de-contextualise language.
Global Technology consciously constructs a portfolio with a low volatility and a low degree of market-related risk (low beta, that is).
In addition, auction houses are consciously trying to keep estimates low in hopes of creating the illusion that there are bargains to be had.
