Example sentences for: self-aware

How can you use “self-aware” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Teen horror screenwriting master Kevin Williamson does it again in this "rip-snorting hunk of giddy, self-aware genre trash" (Dennis Harvey, Daily Variety ). The Breakfast Club meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers as six misfit high-schoolers try to save the world from their alien-inhabited teachers.

  • It is a commonplace of literary history that the emergence of autobiography in the West reflects the development of the mature, individuated, self-aware self.

  • Instead, everybody was offhandedly wearing an assortment of garments in pale colors, as if deliberately refusing the high-impact, self-aware look that black gear now gives to modern urban life.

  • (The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."

  • (The participants, not the hat, are self-conscious; although I'd wear my hat more often if it were a little more self-aware.)


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