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Example sentences for: self-consciousness

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The piece is bylined with pseudonyms but bears the unmistakable mark of comic novelist David Foster Wallace: excessive footnotes, excessive and nontraditional abbreviations, excessive and occasionally cloying self-consciousness, gratuitous use of Latin phrases, and employment of 10 cent words such as "cathedra," "synecdoche," and "clerestories."
She politely tells him of her self-consciousness and discomfort at seeing the picture, and he explains to her that, while the photographer and his model are in some ways collaborators, the power, the control, ultimately belongs to the photographer alone.
A profile of the Ochs and Sulzberger families suggests that their stewardship of the New York Times was unduly influenced by self-consciousness about their Judaism.
Hip is a self-consciousness.
Critics call this version more polished than the low budget original and better than the other six sequels but say nonetheless that it is predictable, devoid of scare power, and overly fond of the current horror movie trend of "smirky pomo self-consciousness" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). (Visit the official site.)