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  • s  aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts
    self-conscious awareness
    self-conscious about their roles as guardians of the social values"- D.M.Potter
  • s  excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior
    self-conscious teenagers
    wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it

  • While the hyper-self-conscious formal works use comix as a complex exploration of such fundamental human experiences as loss, loneliness and love, the sketchbooks offer a .
  • In the end, though, Wilson acquits himself nicely, making good use of his ability to wink at the audience without appearing self-conscious.
  • But in a flash, after some undetectable misstep, the dancebot dissolves into a self-conscious schoolgirl.
News & Articles

  • Used Car Face Off: Do You Prefer Your Convertible French or Italian?
    Welcome to Used Car Face Off, where we find two similar or similarly priced used cars and ask you which one you would buy. Choose wisely! I don’t know why I continue on this quest to find odd convertibles. Convertibles are not typically my thing in the first place because I have very little interest in posing and sometimes get self-conscious about what I’m listening to on the radio. But then ...
    June 16, 2013 - Jalopnik
  • Holder cops out
    You might think a US Attorney General who has so much to investigate in his own backyard — e.g., the IRS targeting of conservatives, or Justice’s own targeting of reporters as criminals — would be too busy or self-conscious to go after an enterprise as successful as the NYPD. Then...
    June 13, 2013 - New York Post
  • Berberian Sound Studio Is a Lavish Gift to Film Geeks
    A bewitching helix of pure movie stuff, Peter Strickland's seething and self-conscious whatsit Berberian Sound Studio may scan as a psychological thriller, but it's really a lavish gift to film geeks in a lovely matryoshka box. Strickland nails his ideas down to a wicked time a...
    June 11, 2013 - The Village Voice
Quotes

  • Jessica Alba in Javno.hr
    Jessica told Britain's Daily Mirror: "I try not to make the headlines. I'm self-conscious about this. I try to not make my presence known."
  • Kate Moss in PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)
    Moss adds: "She would make me take off my top, and I would cry. After five years of taking off your top you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore. You're not conscious about your flaws - bow-legged, crooked teeth."
  • Alexa Ray Joel in FOXNews (blog)
    Joel said of her own surgery that "I was self-conscious of pictures taken from the side. To some people that's vain, but at the end of the day, we all want to feel pretty."

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