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:

  • One reason is that this is an age of memoirs: Wilde, who self-consciously made his own life a work of art, is an evocative symbol for self-involved literature.

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

  • An overtly negative review in the New York Times Book Review , by Courtney Weaver, calls the tone "self-consciously humorous"; says the wit at times "disintegrates into cutesy one-liners"; and complains that the stories are plagued by a "certain generic weariness."

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

  • Others insist he self-consciously aimed to represent emotions and landscapes.


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