She may believe that women would feel happier in a poncho lined in a Missoni print, more sophisticated in a turquoise print silk dress over a turtleneck, and more mysterious in a pair of gray flannels with a stiff floral stole, but the results, on this outing, looked self-conscious.
For the first time, everybody looked self-conscious and embarrassed.
Mr. Hernandez sat beside her, looking self-conscious as she told the story.
The solicitor complained about this, too, and meanwhile the suspect stood there looking self-conscious.
There are some spectacular rapidly spinning, twisting lifts that never look self-conscious, since they are subsumed into the overall rush of movement.
In many cases, the result looks self-conscious, sentimental — about ballet and ballet dancers — a fact unquestionably related to Robbins's late training and his worry that he did not belong in ballet.
And he didn't even look self-conscious when, in the final segment, a "political party" where younger bloggers and journalists join the hosts at a table and festively trade quips, Ms. Parker asked him to identify his secret "guilty pleasure".
What's delicious about seeing the decapitated front-runner grovel, cuddle and muddle through TV appearances, striving to be self-aware and self-deprecating, but often ending up looking self-conscious?
That final coda does not entirely work: inevitably, some of the dreamed-up technological innovations and stylings look self-conscious and the sheer weirdness means that the emotional power of ordinary life is no longer available.
These days, choreographers are constantly being urged to create same-sex duets, but a lot of dance-makers don't really know what to do with the form, and the results can easily come off as either self-conscious or the opposite: cold, so as not to look self-conscious.
But once we leave the hotel for the forest, some of the film's energy, atmosphere and control is dissipated: the superbly clenched, angular weirdness and explosive gags lose their direction and force and Lanthimos's distinctive weirdness begins to look self-conscious and contrived.
