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Example sentences for: self-conscious

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The case study method is further distinguished by the researcher's self-conscious effort to understand what the observed events mean to the participants.
And because we conservatives view ourselves as part of nature--albeit a quirky, self-conscious bit of it--we feel we have the honor and privilege of tussling with it.
The story seems self-conscious, heavy-handed in its intimations of meaning via symbols, preoccupied not with its characters but with its intention of being larger than itself.
[He's suddenly self-conscious.
(The participants, not the hat, are self-conscious; although I'd wear my hat more often if it were a little more self-aware.)