From what Kostya could tell, the man did not look conscious.
"In persistent vegetative state, patients look conscious but are unconscious," said Dr. Jerome B. Posner, who works at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and was Dr. Plum's professional partner for more than 40 years.
Changing her dressing, he asked, "Mother dare look?" Conscious that the honor of North American motherhood was on my shoulders, I dared to look at my 28-year-old's nice, neat incision.
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.
Director/designer John Pascoe's production looks budget-conscious, but exudes sufficient atmosphere and unfolds smoothly.
But until the paperless office finally comes along, it is at least a cheap way to look environmentally conscious.
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.
A marketing strategy of this kind looks like a conscious effort to profit from recent Dutch anxiety over Muslim immigrants.
The fatal pronoun is "they": it looks like a conscious attempt by well-heeled Tories to distance themselves from the great unwashed, who are presumably all getting hammered in bingo halls.
A more traditionally conceived "issue" movie would have included a scene of gay-bashing, but Haigh takes what looks like a conscious decision to defuse this particular dramatic firework.
It begins with those wayward teeth spotlit in what looks like a conscious parody of Billie Whitelaw in Beckett: and it goes on to run the gamut of Doddy jokes.
