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:

  • In the film's most self-consciously poetic set piece, Ricky shows Lester's dour daughter Jane--in whom he recognizes a kindred spirit--a video of a plastic bag fluttering up, down, and around on invisible currents of wind.

  • He played himself, campily, in Wayne's World . He draws thousands of fans to his goofy, self-consciously bombastic concerts.

  • The magazine's special shelter issue, titled "The Human Habitat," self-consciously departs from glossy, expensive interior-decorator culture.

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

  • The nearly unrelieved squalor of this career goes side by side with a self-consciously decadent and degenerate lifestyle.


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