For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment.
The moments of warmth and the strains that gradually heal are written with openness and unselfconsciousness.
In this chamber, "balanced on the brink of a myth," they play in utter unselfconsciousness a childish-grown-up sort of game: prancing and pluming themselves, idolizing and .
Alan Bennett in Independent Alan Bennett said in 1988: "The real solvent of class distinction is a proper measure of self-esteem - a kind of unselfconsciousness. Some people are at ease with themselves, so the world is at ease with them".