self-consciousness

self-conscious | American Dictionary

self-conscious
adjective
us/ˌselfˈkɑn·ʃəs/
uncomfortable about yourself and worried about disapproval from other people:
She was self-conscious about her weight.

self-consciously

adverbus/ˌselfˈkɑn·ʃəs·li/
She blushed self-consciously when I complimented her.

Examples of self-conscious

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Class is not necessarily a self-conscious identity; it may remain on the level of an analytical shorthand that summarizes a person's social positioning.
They started to act as self-conscious actors in the local arenas and, maybe even more important, they were recognised as such by locals and non-locals.
In this context, musical relations are likely to become more self-conscious, and less intimate, than when watching fiction.
Nor must our judgment be dazzled by the glare of self-conscious heroism.
This book extends that work into a more self-conscious interpretative analysis of isicathamiya.
This self-conscious integration of local, regional and global perspectives is potentially productive.
Because of this background, many immigrants were self-conscious of their progressive and modern status.
The principal difference between ourselves and our ancestors is that they took society as they found it while we are self-conscious and perplexed.
Some of the participants were self-conscious, self-assertive ' backwoodsmen ' defending an independent way of life, looting and striking back against coastal people.
Here, musical styles are ironic and unpredictable, assume self-conscious postures, resist genre definitions, are often difficult to classify.
According to the different strains of theism, the ultimate reality and highest being is necessarily ontologically independent, self-conscious, and transcendent.
He tended to be very self-conscious in registering the effects of his new environment on himself.
But her key problem here, we are told, is not her assumption that the defeat of horrendous evil requires such self-conscious beliefs.
Proposals which are bland in themselves, however, can assume a quite different dimension when viewed as the expression of a self-conscious movement.
The smaller amount of capital may explain some such domestic management of business, but it was also a self-conscious endeavour.
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