Example sentences for: self-awareness

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

  • The Indianapolis YWCA is an open, supportive organization concerned with women and families; providing opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and resources in the areas of health, self-awareness and leadership.

  • It is a demanding method, requiring specific skills (such as fluency in the language of the participants) and general self-awareness to maintain the fine balance between seeing things as others see them and identifying their perspective wholly with one's own.

  • Through a process of Hollywood alchemy, self-awareness transforms rubbish into lucrative nonrubbish.

  • Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.

  • Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.


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