You could remove all the literary self-consciousness without smothering the novel's ontology, or coarsening its intricacy.
There is no self consciousness.
Without nudity of the lower torso, and without self-consciousness on the part of the nude NPCs, Zenke wrote, the Oblivion Topless Mod was "as erotic as a doctor's visit".
Frank's appealing alertness brings with it a certain self-consciousness about his "ministry without responsibility".
Descartes's "I think, therefore I am," Costello says, justifies treating all those without self-consciousness as if they were things.
Surrounded by a half-dozen people whom she had just met, she undressed and stood in front of the three-way mirror, waiting patiently and without self-consciousness for the costumers to build her character from the stockings up.
On issues of foreign policy and national security, she readily said "I don't know" when she didn't, and she referred frequently, without self-consciousness, to her husband's experience, especially in the Middle East and in the Balkans, perhaps as a way of signalling that nothing prepares a person for four years in the White House like eight years in the White House.
Through a great deal of conscious effort and planning, and the sculpting of nature into something considerably more tame and reliable, Monet hoped to perceive something true about the world, or at least some small patches of it, without self-consciousness, as a child might.
The possible intellect which, as defined by Aristotle, can become all things (cf. De anima III 5, 430a14 15)—is able to know either as ordinary consciousness (in images, species of things) or as self-consciousness through self-knowledge (without images, free from images).
The purpose of the evening, according to Blitz, was for the actors to "be comfortable around each other inhabiting their roles without self-consciousness", as each of their roles required them to act in potentially embarrassing ways.
The joke there is on celebrities who chronicle their self-absorption without any self-consciousness at all.
