His art consciously offers resistance, and his own commentaries make matters even murkier.
The premise of a German and Japanese triumph has inspired writers from Philip K Dick to Robert Harris, whose Fatherland (1992) consciously offers a German-American parallel to the Nazi-invaded Britain of Len Deighton's SS-GB (1978); in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America (2004), President Roosevelt loses the 1940 US election to the isolationist, pro-fascist Charles Lindbergh.
Above all, classic Hollywood is a specular toolbox which, when deployed self-consciously, offers modern filmmakers a set of devices, strategies, and attitudes with which to consider and transcend their own limits — and those of classical styles as well.
Say to yourself, "if I have been harmed, whether consciously or unconsciously, I offer my forgiveness".
– Sydney Morning Herald "If the author doesn't exist outside the text, inside the text she offers herself, consciously adds herself to the story, exerting herself to be truer than she could be in the photos of a Sunday supplement, at a book launch, at a literary festival, in some television broadcast, receiving a literary prize.
Properly empowered and self-consciously constructed, mini-publics offer a strategy to get beyond the dilemma of insider consultation and outsider contestation that is a structural feature of civil society activity in currently existing international institutions.
I set about consciously reducing contact time and offered 'nothing to report' when I did bump into him.
In an increasingly dynamic and complex global economy, consciously observing, designing, experimenting and learning can offer a strong alternative to traditional organizational and business model evolution.
What if it doesn't mean anything at all? "The Green Surround" doesn't offer answers, and that is a consciously formal decision: here, the individual — and individual meaning — is subsumed by the mass.
Family and family reunions are the eternal verities offered in place of religion, and, consciously or not, Christmas movies are inspired by the overwhelmingly powerful template of Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
