Yet Milton, I think, is still working consciously here to renounce all of that extraordinary poetic license that he had taken in Paradise Lost.
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".
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.
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.
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.
"They work consciously to pull one more vote in with them on an issue so they'll have a majority".
Principal investigators might need to work consciously against the feeling that 'nothing is getting done' during personal interactions.
I thereafter worked consciously to develop my cunning, resolved to stand by myself, even at the cost of losing my way, of being exposed.
We believe that, regardless of one's gender or generation, spouses can work consciously to focus on both partners' emotional contributions to marital dynamics.
Because managers at Chemical Central had worked consciously to create a diverse team, it happened that one member had both a legal and a technical background.
