Sentence examples for self-conscious expression from inspiring English sources

One of them, wearing a high-fashion French-cuff shirt and a skinny tie (and bearing the self-conscious expression of a normal person who has been gussied up for a magazine shoot), was a local legislator and lawyer in his mid-thirties named Xu Zhiyong.

A name is chosen now as a self-conscious expression of the parents' personality.

Kantian dualism is nothing other than the most self-conscious expression of this "hiatus" between subject (the source of rational unity) and object (the source of non-rational content).

There's just more exuberance in it — more messy life — than in the studied, self-conscious expressions of so many of the candidates who came after him, including the two squaring off for the presidency right now.

Maine historian Charles Clark writes that Sullivan's History, while neither thoroughly researched nor particularly well written, is an "un-self-conscious expression of romantic nationalism" that is "picturesque, romantic, [and] inspired".

Concerned to some extent with self-conscious emotional expression, they often tended to use looser forms and slower paces than the Classical composers.

Blair McMillen, a young pianist and a strong presence in all but one of the pieces, made the most of Akemi Naito's "Rain, Calling Autumn," a rather slender work for solo piano that would have tended toward self-conscious self-expression had Mr. McMillen not done everything in his power to bring it to deeper life.

The art song has become a rather self-conscious mode of expression in comparison with, say, the songs of Bruce Springsteen or Bob Dylan.

How quaint and self-conscious they look, frozen in stiff postures and solemn expressions.

No one should have to feel self-conscious about such a fundamental expression of the self as the way they speak.

The more or less fictionalized, philosophically self-conscious "libertine" is one significant expression of Enlightenment ethical thought.