self-conscious
Her prose has no authorial self-consciousness.
The postmodernists install layers of artistic self-consciousness inside the work itself.
Warhol's parties were productions but the Portland scene has no east coast self-consciousness.

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Examples of self-consciousness

self-consciousness
With self-consciousness comes a demand for philosophical justification of the state-building process, but that process has been going on in obedience to elemental instinct.
True religious experience involves more than the feeling of absolute dependence, even when united with a mode of sensible self-consciousness.
For them, political self-consciousness was a strategic advantage.
This bar seems to halt all forward movement: it stands suspended, as if in a moment of self-consciousness or introspection.
The higher consciousness can only exist insofar as it is related to the antithesis of the sensible self-consciousness between self and world.
In the second grade of consciousness there is self-consciousness, and hence a grasp of the antithesis between the self and the world.
It is ironic that although we have difficulty giving satisfactory answers to these questions, we can create self-consciousness with relative ease.
One might say that in having children we participate in the mystery of the creation of self-consciousness.
What they called for instead was contemporary history, or at least those episodes from the past that spoke to the contemporary bourgeois self-consciousness.
The temporary suspension of this self and experience of fusion with nature and natural being eliminates self-consciousness, contingency, constraint, and lack.
The experience of juxtaposing ' ' local operations ' ' with other cultural relations is peculiar to diasporic self-consciousness.
He rightly draws attention, as noted, to the level of self-consciousness in a nation, but beyond that wobbles on a key issue.
Hence, there can be no development of the higher consciousness that is not situated, that does not develop in relation to the sensible self-consciousness.
He watches others but his primary responsibility is to watch himself with a degree of self-consciousness equal to that of the most sophisticated courtier.
This relatedness of the sensibly determined to the higher self-consciousness in the unity of the moment is the consummating point of the self-consciousness.
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