Ms. Winehouse, who writes her own lyrics, has been far more self-conscious from the start.
Later, in his studio recording, Klemperer would insist on omitting all the dialogue; here it is included, though it sometimes sounds stilted and self-conscious from cast members whose first language was not German, and there is a certain amount of clattery stage noise, too.
If you're self-conscious from baby weight, exercise is great for your health and boosting your confidence and sense of happiness and well-being.
At the end of his sophomore year, in the first of many self-transformations, he made himself over, changing his hair style, buying a new wardrobe, learning to jitterbug and turning from Hugh — skinny, awkward and self-conscious, to judge from photographs then — into Hef, or Hep Hef, a jive cat.
In the seven novels and forty-odd stories he has published since "Bright Lights," McInerney has experimented widely and with varying levels of success, veering from comedy to self-conscious seriousness, from the small and local to the decade-spanning.
Because most art created in the Middle Ages was made for the church, not for private patrons, some collectors say that it is somehow more genuine and less self-conscious than art from other periods.
Yet there's something in this self-conscious offering from Thumbsucker writer-director Mike Mills that redeems it from utter self-absorption.
The characters, aside from Beth Rebecca Lukerr), are broadly drawn caricatures: a shy, self-conscious nerd from accounting; Beth's presumptuous, grabby boss; and a lesbian who masks her desperate insecurity with militancy.
Bill Brian Hutchisonn) is a shy, self-conscious nerd from accounting upstairs.
New outfits like n+1 are thriving on self-conscious inspiration from the journals of the postwar years, like Partisan Review.
Such historical understanding, if it is possible, must be the product of self-conscious interpretation from one worldview into another.
