Example sentences for: self-consciously

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

  • Bohemianism is a life self-consciously positioned on the margins in order to express ambivalence about the mainstream.

  • Many News Quiz participants treated the top hat as a self-consciously anachronistic symbol of the rich.

  • It started last fall in the country when I was invited to join a "bulb club"--a self-consciously pre-feminist all-girl group that meets to buy bulbs in bulk at reduced rates and exchange bits of gardening wisdom.

  • But Brit Stephen Frears directs in a distanced and self-consciously classical style.

  • The Last Thing He Wanted also features a self-consciously intrusive narrator--nothing new here, either.


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