301 examples of self-consciousnesses in sentences

Had her dreams been of Shade Buckheath, or any of the boys of her own kind and class, she would have been instantly full of self-consciousness; but Gray Stoddard appeared to her a creature so apart from her sphere that this overwhelming attraction he held for her seemed no more than the admiration she might have given to Miss Lydia Sessions.

The whole Methodist Church, with the other churches, is doing a piece of unselfish national service that costs up into the hundreds of millions, and where's any other big money that's better spent?" When Marty stopped he looked up into Joe's good-natured face, and blushed, with an embarrassed self-consciousness.

" All her self-consciousness had vanished.

By health I mean that simple regard to the truth, to the will of God, which will turn away a man's eyes from his own conditions, and leave God free to work his perfection in himfree, that is, of the interference of the man's self-consciousness and anxiety.

Notwithstanding, Nogam pursued his bedtime rites with precisely the same deliberation and absence of perceptible self-consciousness as before.

Most poets are known for their morbid vanity, their self-consciousness, their feeling of superiority, and their depreciation of superior excellence; but Scott had eminently a healthy mind, as he had a healthy body, and shrank from exaggeration as he did from vulgarity in all its forms.

And Mrs. Lessways, straightening her face, said, with slight self-consciousness: "Oh, I think it's worth while considering!"

It was only the idea of being in the King's Road that had struck herand with such an effect that her attention was happily diverted from her trouble, and her vexatious self-consciousness disappeared.

He draws the picture of a portion of his youth, and lays bare its tenderest emotions; but he does so with no morbid self-consciousness, and no affectation.

There is a super-sensitiveness and a keen self-consciousness which cannot brook harshness and coercion.

For, with that self-consciousness which no modern mind can escape, he found a certain sad pleasure sometimes in noting the tricks grief played with him, loving and encouraging all its fanciesif fancies indeed they were.

And she thought how awkward his fit of shy self-consciousness had made him appear in contrast with a cultured man, a cosmopolitan like Falconer.

The identity of inorganic matter depends on the continuity of the mass of atoms which compose it; that of living beings upon the permanent organization of their parts (different bodies are united into one animal by a common life); personal identity consists in the unity of self-consciousness, not in the continuity of bodily existence (which is at once excluded by the change of matter).

But, again, self-consciousness can never be realized, because it involves a regressus in infinitum.

And, on the other hand, the novel has neither the intense self-consciousness of autobiography nor the paralysing responsibilities of the biographer.

"I suppose I could compress myself back into being satisfied with this sort of people and things," she thought, as she looked round the ballroom from which pose and self-consciousness and rigid conventionality had banished spontaneous gayety.

It is an amazing testimony to the simplicity of the Russian that the upper classes behave at the seaside with little more self-consciousness than the peasant children by the village stream.

It separates itself from them and so becomes conscious of them in their separation from one another, while at the same time it binds them together as elements in one higher self-consciousness.

Usually he was shy with a new employer, but this man inspired much too large a sensation in him to include shyness, or any other form of petty self-consciousness.

' Addison had the self-consciousness of a sensitive and speculative mind.

The details of the picture are too much insisted on, and there is too much of self-consciousness in the artist.

There was a self-consciousness about him which altogether overpowered him.

I have seen, I regret to say, various distinguished preachers whose pulpit demeanor was made to me inexpressibly offensive by this taint of self-consciousness.

She moved slowly and gracefully, and quite without self-consciousness.

To his religious mind it suggested self-consciousness; expressed in the dialect of the stranger, it only meant "business.

301 examples of  self-consciousnesses  in sentences