"They work consciously to pull one more vote in with them on an issue so they'll have a majority".
Mr. Acconci's performance works are cool and aggressive; they sketch a psychological portrait of the artist working consciously at his limits, in full possession of himself.
Hitchens is working, consciously, I think, in the tradition of the English essay, descended from Johnson, Lamb, Hazlitt, and Orwell, in which ideas are the flower of direct experience and everything depends on the strong presence of the "I".
"The average American doesn't want to be educated; he doesn't want to improve his mind; he doesn't even want to work, consciously, at being a good citizen," Whitaker advised.
As the cultural historian Stuart Hall writes in his introductory essay: "Without working consciously to a plan, Morris seems to have used every opportunity – studio work, special occasions, photoshoots, in the street, around the "hood', indoors, the big moments, the incidental – to capture another dimension of this experience.
A brutal, laconic writer working consciously in the tradition of Beckett and Kafka, Coetzee places his protagonists in opposition to an oppressive or anarchic state, then subjects them to the grimmest circumstances imaginable: starvation, imprisonment, homelessness, terminal illness, social disgrace, sexual slavery.
Do you work consciously to make the narrators of your short stories so distinct from each other?
So while I'm giving up a lot of things I want, I'm working consciously to give myself what I need in place of the want.
In working consciously with these emotions and impulses, we find ourselves feeling more trusting and open with each other and gradually begin to let down the defenses that shield and protect us from emotional distress.
The shadow is a benevolent force -- it is dualistic in nature -- but often times we do not work consciously with it instead we allow it to create for us by default.
