It's a fantastic study on how to look utterly self conscious while trying to appear bulletproof to judgment.
How else to interpret his utterly unself-conscious assertion that the problem with Obama is that he's "surrounded by an adoring staff … it's enough to make you think you might become a little out of touch".
But, truthfully, Cordelia is the one who has her fire, her audacity, her utterly unself-conscious authenticity.
As Val, the tall Ms. Kinsella is utterly un-self-conscious.
But utterly un-self-conscious immersion in one's own activities is a time-honored teenage mode.
He is large, a little ungainly and charismatic without quite being handsome, and somehow able to seem at once exquisitely self-conscious and utterly obtuse.
It's the presentation of a person that by definition is so self-conscious and strange and utterly inauthentic, it just begs to be derided.
One of the striking things about spending any time among fashion-conscious Japanese kids is how utterly nerdy they can be in their pursuit of cool.
Only a nation utterly deranged about the minutiae of class-conscious dress and manners could have managed to sit through six series of this tosh.
His decision to paint in an utterly conventional, inexpressive, even illustrational manner was as conscious and deliberate as his dress and habits: the bowler hat, the overcoat, his affectation of the suburban lifestyle of the French-speaking Belgian petit bourgeois.
