Regarding Shakespeare's weaving together of the story's threads, Hazlitt marvels at the "ease and conscious unconcern" with which "[t]he most straggling and seemingly casual incidents are contrived [and] in such a manner as to lead to the most most complete developement of the catastrophe".
Talk of institutional and technocratic reform does not stir the heart or ease our collective conscious.
But beyond the power and knowledge she holds, she is genuinely humble and down to earth, at ease with and conscious of her self professed eccentricity.
Edith, or Edy, as she was known, looked like her mother but lacked her magnetism and un-self-conscious ease.
But they capture the sparkling nocturnal beauty and incessant movement of city life with an unself-conscious ease that is missing from many of Nevinson's paintings.
But, to inherit the world and to rule it, Hal must purge his life of the liberty and the unself-conscious ease that the old rascal stood for.
It has also earned Mr. Sunkara, now a ripe 23, extravagant praise from members of a (slightly) older guard who see his success as heartening sign that the socialist "brand" — to use a word he throws around with un-self-conscious ease — hasn't been totally killed off by Tea Party invective.
Mr. Jones attests to that truth with a sparkling clarity and elegance, but Mr. Lovano testifies as well; he is one of the few musicians in his peer group to have come up the old-fashioned way, in touring big bands, and he has the ability to reach back to a premodern saxophone language with un-self-conscious ease.
Once again, Bush often appeared ill at ease and self-conscious, even when he mustered an attack on an opponent.
On Thursday night he played a set that was deferential but un-self-conscious, at ease in its evocation.
The trio could move from slinky slow jams to socially conscious grooves with ease, and their reputation as one of R&B's most badass groups was fully legit: when shoddy record contracts saw them broke despite CrazySexyCool's monster profits, the trio responded by storming their label's offices with a crew of female ex-cons in tow, holding Arista's then-president Clive Davis hostage.
