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self-consciousness


  • n  embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
  • n  self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you

  • The study is the first to demonstrate that animals other than primates experience envy, which has long been considered an emotion that requires self-consciousness.
  • And sometimes its self-consciousness is exasperating, as if Henry James unaccountably decided to write a crime novel.
  • He's a mid-range James Bond, on whom a certain self-consciousness has been imposed.
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  • Claire Danes in Los Angeles Times
    I really had to protect myself from any self-consciousness as much as possible,Danes said.
  • Ben Brantley in San Diego Union Tribune
    She's stiff with self-consciousness (especially in the first act), only glancingly acquainted with the two characters she plays and so deeply, disturbingly beautiful that you don't want to let her out of your sight,Brantley wrote.
  • John Howard in Malaysia Star
    Appropriate responses to the potential pandemic will be high on the agendaat the APEC summit, Howard said, emphasising "the importance of putting aside any sense of national pride or self-consciousness about any outbreak in individual...

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