They make him conscious of how little he saw and how little he knows.
A first Christmas abroad made him conscious of his alienation, which became a new motif in his writing.
All of it, he said in an interview, has made him conscious of the danger that the United States and Iran will blunder into "a war of miscalculation".
Increasingly in the 1230s he was drawn into affairs in northern Italy and Germany that made him conscious of the importance of the Sicilian kingdom as a base for his imperial power.
Only minor infractions came his way, but even such a routine chore as driving the drunk wagon down to Sin City could make him conscious of the sense of justice in himself that had been so tumultuously aroused the preceding November.
In her championing of the play, the Royal Court artistic director Max Stafford-Clark, who admired above all (and indeed emulated) her tenacity, said she made him conscious of the fact that of the 800 plays written in England between 1670 and 1710, only half a dozen were in the modern repertory; The Lucky Chance was a shameful reminder of what we have lost, or ignored.
They say they believe that the King's two bouts with cancer have made him conscious of his mortality and kindled a desire to insure that the Hashemite line of succession -- which dates to 1201 -- passes to one of his own sons.
He had a serious look on his face, as if being surrounded by so many frames had made him conscious of being framed himself, of being watched.
Corporal punishment at home is the norm, making him conscious, in retrospect, "of the ambient low-grade violence I lived in as a mid-century child".
Mr. Landry had one health-related development, but it was imaginary: since moving into the house, he has experienced some hypochondria; it seems that living there has made him uncomfortably conscious of the lack of antimicrobial coatings elsewhere.
