As soon as he grew aware of the emotion he was indulging, he suppressed it.
I grew aware of being foreign myself, of being Northern Irish.
As he grew aware of the futility of his efforts, he gradually lost control of his thoughts.
Thanks in no small part to home video Westerners are gradually growing aware of the oceanic depth and diversity of Japanese cinema.
Utermohlen first grew aware of her unenviable gift when she could taste rubber from utensils used in her mother's cooking.
Instead of seeing the new building as pure triumphalism, another "capital project" in a sinking city, I'd grown aware of a genuine exploratory current — a mixture of boldness and caution, strength and flexibility.
After moving to Hong Kong in 2010 for college, Wilson Liu Yu, a native of the central Chinese city of Wuhan, had slowly grown aware of the disdain directed at him by some local residents.
At twenty-one, the writer in me was like a fly in the room — alive but insignificant, aimless, something that unsettled me whenever I grew aware of it, and which, for the most part, left me alone.
His eyes, usually downcast, had occasionally drifted about, and with this talk of a purposeful death, all of us in the room grew aware of a loaded Kalashnikov leaning against a wall in the corner.
Cloud said as audiences have grown aware of the different forms that magic takes – from visual tricks of levitation to more psychological mindreading – they have become more eager to see it happen before their own eyes.
