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Example sentences for: self-consciousness

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

It's not as if all this postmodern self-consciousness amounts to anything new.
Ev psych insists, rightly, that we not ignore our similarities to the higher- and lower-order creatures, but it's weak on subjectivity, self-awareness, self-consciousness, whatever you want to call it--on how we explain our tangled mass of hormonal impulses to ourselves.
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.
When they project their particular self-consciousness onto society as a whole, the upshot is a sour, self-congratulatory muddle.
What I don't trust is their ability to convey what it's like simply to have a meal with a loved one or to walk across a street or to wake up from a sound sleep without the self-consciousness that comes from a constant proximity to media.