It was taboo to be gay, and even though my feelings told me that that was exactly what I was, I consciously suppressed it.
The cover recommendation from Jonathan Safran Foer tells you exactly what to expect: self-consciously quirky fiction fresh from an MFA at NYU.
They are asking us become aware that there is in fact a cost, to determine exactly what that cost is, and to consciously decide whether we want to pay the price, now and/or down the line.
Once Mr. Dorman got over his doubts -- that writing self-consciously Jewish music "is not exactly what I do" -- he hit on an idea for a piece that would be, well, exactly what he does.
It is partly that McDonagh knows exactly what conventions he is using, just as he deals consciously with the established themes of Irish drama, from language, exile and religion.
If that means leaning in harder at times or consciously leaning out so be it, that's exactly what I'll do.
So many things affect a person both consciously and unconsciously that it's impossible to say exactly why people hold their beliefs.
When he stopped drawing in 1930, it was because "I began to remember people more or less exactly as they were, and was obliged to put in the exaggerations consciously".
("You can beat it out! You can make it fall out! You can abort it! But you cannot give birth to it!") The most disturbing passages, though, are the ones that depict self-consciously progressive Westerners persuading themselves that fewer girls might be exactly what the teeming societies of the third world needed.
She still half-consciously considers N.Y. to be inhabited by a population that knows exactly what's going on & from which she is naturally excluded, except for a particular moment once in a while.
