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• r  in an uncomfortably self-conscious manner
  the little girl self-consciously recited the poem

• Few records of any kind evince this much head-spinning joy, and coming on the heels of Licensed to Ill, their self-consciously idiotic debut, it announced that the Beasties were an .
• There is something self-consciously adorable in the writing and playing of Hector.
• It is laced with descriptions of sexual activity and full of almost self-consciously repeated Freudian cliches about rebelliousness against parents along with a yearning to be .

• unselfconsciously

News & Articles

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• E3 2013: Here Are All the Trailers From Microsoft’s Presentation
  Microsoft showed off dozens of games at its E3 press conference, self-consciously making up for its games-light unveiling of the Xbox One. Though only a few of the games were exclusive to the Xbox One, Microsoft is betting that the …
  June 10, 2013 - WebProNews
• The Straight Poop on Dollar Shave Club’s Wet Wipes For Guys
  The Dollar Shave Club guys are back, and this time they’re knocking on the back door. “I’m talking about poop,” CEO Michael Dubin announces in another self-consciously edgy (not to say “cheeky”) YouTube video shilling his company’s newest product: wet wipes for grown men. In the blogosphere, the question of whether or not adults should use what are essentially baby wipes in conjunction with ...
  June 6, 2013 - The Curious Capitalist

Quotes

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• Michiko Kakutani in International Herald Tribune
  Writing in The Times, Michiko Kakutani praised the "humane and deeply affecting memoir," but noted that some of the scenes "can feel self-consciously novelistic at times."
• Alan Bennett in Manchester Online
  I don't know that I understand boys now,says Bennett. "Things have changed so much. I didn't try to write like the eighties, in a self-consciously modern way. I just wrote true to the characters and trusted that if anything sounded old...
• Hu Jintao in EastDay.com
  Hu said, "We should keep doing good deeds that benefit people, be always aware of the harm of greedy desires, keep disciplining our acts, self-consciously resist money worship, hedonism and out-and-out egoism," he said.