" 'Time is his name — ' " she recited, " 'and he alas! is blind.' " Dick cleared his throat, embarrassed, and Alison, suddenly self-conscious as well, made an effort to rouse herself from what she secretly called the Cave — the quiet, dark place of her thoughts.
Ms. Branco is self-conscious as a folk performer, but she mostly avoids the old, traditional fado songs.
As thin as an iPod Nano and as sweetly self-conscious as a Facebook page, but not without charm.
If his lack of size made him shy and self-conscious as a boy, his low center of gravity made him spectacularly elusive as a soccer player.
And she is charmingly and woefully self-conscious as a woman trapped in men's clothing, shrinking from and luxuriating in the touch of Orsino.
But as I tried to coordinate the precise footwork with the subtle moves of the upper body, I became as stiff and self-conscious as a kid at a high school dance.
As the four sisters waited for Joe and his friends to finish decorating the dining room of the retirement home, they sat down to talk, a bit self-conscious as a photographer the family hired for the event started snapping shots of them.
I was very self-conscious as a singer growing up.
The tastiness of the food makes me do a little dance, which might have made me self-conscious as a younger person.
But the programs are relatively new and have not been universally successful, in part, perhaps, because they can make some young athletes overly self-conscious, as an interesting review article published earlier this year suggests.
It's no good to be too self-conscious as an actor, because you can see it when they're being watched.
