And of course it didn't help at all!" As so often, her voice begins in a conspiratorial whisper before shooting off the scale into an exclamation, and then a bellow of laughter: Uchida talks as she plays, conscious of sound rather than self.
All are playing self-conscious roles — son, colleague, sibling and lover — that at once define and restrict them.
For the first time in history, he argues, man has the ability to play a conscious, active role in his own evolution, and therefore to make himself a complete success in his environment.
On such accounts of mindreading, no special role is played by conscious imagination.
In the world process, buddhi plays a conscious role, reflecting the pure consciousness, just as the moon lightens up the world by borrowing the reflected light of the sun.
Given our cynical times, we're all going to have to play a conscious role if we want to create a culture where young Americans once again participate in these critical public choices.
When Woody Allen played a conscious cinematic game -- you know, created something original out of existing pieces -- in Zelig, a film in which one of the most entertaining running gags is that he inserted himself into historic scenes, with all of us in on the joke, was that infringement or art?
Still, the implacable Trump has a nose for playing on both conscious and subconscious fear.
Playing this self-conscious bore, Carradine looks more worn than legendary.
Indeed, it is curious how musicians who might be self-conscious playing themselves on film find it easy to play fictional musicians who they are as similar to as plectrums in a gig-bag.
