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Example sentences for: self-conscious

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Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)
The New York Times ' Michael Kimmelman says the exhibit reflects nothing less than the state of contemporary art: derivative and self-conscious.
inner-probing, self-conscious."
No self-conscious babbling about pork rinds from George W. He's just a regular fella who'd rather watch football on the tube than discuss policy any day.
(The participants, not the hat, are self-conscious; although I'd wear my hat more often if it were a little more self-aware.)