| 单词 | self-conscious |
| 例句 | I was self-conscious about my accent and my English, worried that I would bungle the words. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I had no reason to feel self-conscious, I reminded myself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In another situation, he might have felt self-conscious, but his anger pushed him forward. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z His daughter, Jean, sold flower bouquets and loaves of fresh-baked bread in her marketplace stall while she flirted, laughing, with the gangly, self-conscious boys who stopped by. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z What had been self-conscious was now impersonal, almost abstract. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He unhooked his thumbs from the belt loops and made himself more upright, taking on a self-conscious air of menace. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I am suddenly self-conscious in my prim blouse and modest skirt, my sensible shoes and churchy earrings. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z His eyes follow my hand, and now I’m really self-conscious and hoping he’s not going to ask to touch my hair or a bunch of dumb questions about it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Talking about that always made Annabeth feel self-conscious, like she was some sort of freak. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And the idea of him seeing me in the shirt makes me really self-conscious for some reason. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z I felt self-conscious using the word tall and struggled to take it back. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Penelope felt self-conscious gobbling away while the children were so gloomy, but the strenuous dancing of the previous day had given her a hearty appetite that no amount of stuffed dead animal heads could erase. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Don’t be self-conscious,” he whispered in my ear. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “You told me to tell you when I feel self-conscious.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As the only black player on the squad, I was overly self-conscious at first and performed below par. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Prosper walked next to him, feeling very self-conscious. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone I pass stares at the bruises, and I can’t help feeling self-conscious to the point that I tug my collar up to my ears. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The hallway feels too tight for four people, and I’m more self-conscious of that now than ever before. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It made me feel self-conscious about my crooked bottom ones. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But he’s so sweet and self-conscious out there, you just want to poke him in the face. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z In response to his vigilance and pressure, my sisters grew increasingly defensive and self-conscious. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But the best I can do is to give her my deepest fantasy, the one I’ve been too self-conscious to share. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The way Hazel was studying Leo made him feel uneasy and self-conscious. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We laugh awkward, self-conscious laughs and then laugh at ourselves for being so very awkward and self-conscious. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He felt self-conscious, realizing that he, too, had that look. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Because the prayers were always the same and because they were said by the group, we had a way of praying together without being self-conscious. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaz frowned and ran a self-conscious hand along the side of his head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the clear northern light they all looked fresh, well rested, startled at my appearance; they stared at me as I ran a self-conscious hand through my disheveled hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He hadn't even had time to eat breakfast or brush his teeth, which made him self-conscious, knowing he was going to be sitting so close to her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Suddenly self-conscious, I imagined how I must look: ragged and half-starved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Though pretending to be ecstatic to see her when I'm this self-conscious about the circumstances is...challenging. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Mr. Larson felt self-conscious up there at the front of the hall, but he did not feel alone. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z In fact to write “Any of that wine left in the ’fridge, dear?” looks today self-conscious, not to say poncey. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Nhamo, feeling extremely self-conscious, made her way past several dozen pairs of eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though she and Tony were both in the fifth grade and had walked to school together since first grade, Stella felt a little self-conscious sitting in the dark with a boy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her classmates would remember her as a shy and often self-conscious young woman who kept to herself and concentrated on her musical studies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z With Hush Puppies as well, perhaps the shoes caught the attention of Connectors precisely because they weren’t part of any self-conscious, commercial fashion trend. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had sounded like a shocked accusation and made Francie self-conscious of her speech. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jasper looked up at me with great eyes, humble, rather self-conscious. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He walked down the curious ranks, ugly as ever, self-conscious, ashamed, a veteran going to be broken. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z An old woman was standing a few feet away, staring back at me, which made me self-conscious. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt nervous and awkward and self-conscious and uncomfortable. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Miss Cissy gave us a broad, friendly grin and didn’t seem the least bit self-conscious about being out in her robe. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Um,” I said, pushing my braid over my shoulder and feeling self-conscious at the way he was looking at me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He looked around, and Lina felt suddenly self-conscious, seeing her room through his eyes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I tumbled down into reality, hot-handed and self-conscious, with my face aflame, and began to stammer my apologies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z So far the crew is not talking to me, so I try to forget they’re even there and not feel too self-conscious about my very visible fake leg. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Then she got self-conscious—maybe even cross that I’d caught her like that—and set off again much faster than before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the mask, Ash felt self-conscious; she was not sure if Kaisa had ever looked at her like that before. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They say that Rachel will be self-conscious and embarrassed and it’s all my fault. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I was self-conscious about the way I'd opened the cabinet; the way I’d reached for a glass, then opened the refrigerator and got out the pitcher of juice. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I told him some reason, but not that one notebook was things he said for his book and the other was for my various personal observations about him; very likely he would have become self-conscious. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She could see that Deirdre was self-conscious too, but that she purposely walked in a way that made her striped skirt twirl and flutter. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They stood in silence for a few moments, separated by a body’s length of the deepening darkness, and Ash suddenly felt self-conscious, not knowing what to say. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the guards of segregation were everywhere in the white world, and I saw black people who unwittingly disobeyed them cursed, beaten or thrown in jail, I became increasingly self-conscious with each step I took. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And all three differ from self-conscious, relativistic, ironic, or postmodern styles, in which “the writer’s chief, if unstated, concern is to escape being convicted of philosophical naivete about his own enterprise.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Olanna wished so much that Kainene had come when they were still in a house, wished she did not feel so painfully self-conscious. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I’d grown tired of both the bathroom and the library, and enough time had passed that I no longer felt too self-conscious about eating alone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He drank and put the bottle back; he shot me a quick, self-conscious glance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Within six months their physical attraction for each other suddenly waned; they lost a sexual rhythm together, becoming clumsy in bed, self-conscious, and then abruptly withdrawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a noise like he was hurt and decided to feel self-conscious about it later. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Percy and Reyna occupied matching praetors’ chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, I was starting to become self-conscious about my muscles, so I always wore an athletic jacket on top of whatever outfit I’d put together. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When I was first getting cool with the coming-out thing in school, I always felt super self-conscious in gym, like everyone thought I would try and check them out. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z My feet rang on the flagged stones, echoing to the ceiling, and I felt guilty at the sound, as one does in church, self-conscious, aware of the same constraint. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She had what the catalogs call "a mature figure," and she was not at all self-conscious about it or the starbursts of tiny blue veins on both her inner and outer thighs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He talks and walks, and he’s not self-conscious at all. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z So I slap my hands down to imitate him, and he shoots me a self-conscious smile. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Do not worry about Oscore. Do not be self-conscious because of him,” he says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Like he’s surprised and self-conscious and a little bit pleased with himself. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He ran a hand through his tousled curls, as though self-conscious of having his head uncovered in a place so Jewish that there were mezuzahs on every doorpost. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z You think too much beforehand and you get too self-conscious and tight and you don’t function well. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Several of the younger boys with whom she had been on eye-gouging terms only a few years ago made self-conscious conversation with her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She was surprised by how clumsy and self-conscious she was, after all she had learned and seen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I went to Mrs. Van Hopper, uncertain, rather self-conscious, like a maid who has handed in her notice through a friend. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Bram just watches us, not saying a word, which makes me even more self-conscious. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z And they both look so sweetly self-conscious about it, even though you can tell they’re trying to be super casual. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Inserting we find or we see into the main clause to avoid a dangler can make the sentence stuffy and self-conscious. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I cannot tell whether Miss Ingram was a genius, but she was self-conscious—remarkably self-conscious indeed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Momma, always self-conscious at public displays of emotions not traceable to a religious source, told me to come with her and we’d bring the bread and bowls. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For some reason the conversation had begun to make him self-conscious. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly self-conscious, Ash pulled the cloak more tightly around herself. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I flush a deep red, self-conscious of my joyful lightheadedness. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I felt a tiny bit self-conscious as we carried our rackets and basket of balls to the empty court. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Yet, the children watched her eat cake and drink tea, and she did not feel at all self-conscious. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Mama seemed a little self-conscious, but then shouted fiercely, “Please, fields, feed my children!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Denied admission to Harvard and Yale and the “right” beginning, he had become a self-conscious connoisseur of fine things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Maybe she had been too self-conscious; maybe she had been too mature. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He never wants to make an actor self-conscious or cautious. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Sweet,” I answered, not wanting to make her self-conscious. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Only the tall oaks were still holding all their leaves, like self-conscious old men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I think you are just making me self-conscious.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "Look," said Tristran, feeling rather odd and self-conscious, "someone will probably be worried about you." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z An uneasy silence replaced it, and Yossarian was sober and self-conscious as he climbed down from the plane and took his place in the jeep that was already waiting for them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When we came to the house we found that the band had arrived, and were standing about in the hall rather pink in the face and self-conscious, while Frith, more important than ever, offered refreshments. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His bearing was nervous, self-conscious; he seemed always to be hiding some deep irritation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were neat photographs on the walls, including one where you could see an African-American woman’s VJ, which made me feel self-conscious. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I became self-conscious and turned my eyes away from the two. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s possible that Claire, feeling self-conscious, decided to stroll down the block. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Ash realized that she was still holding the huntress’s hand, and she became suddenly self-conscious. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They inspected Moss, looking him up and down, and he felt self-conscious, as if they were judging his appearance. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Upon noticing this, I become so self-conscious that I can’t stay on the dance floor, so I gravitate toward the edge, where people are standing around drinking, talking and watching. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Were supposed to have five,” I said, feeling self-conscious. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z More often than not, I felt self-conscious, certain I must be boring him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z As far as I know, everyone thinks of me as straight, but already Abby seems to have figured out that she doesn’t have to be self-conscious around me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He cupped his hands around his mouth to blow warm air on them and was then hit with a wave of self-conscious anxiety. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Aunt Jody and Uncle Clark began to question me about my life and I grew so self-conscious that my hunger left me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So while Hwin strolled along in a happy dream, Bree got more nervous and more self-conscious with every step he took. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He had to be an academic, but not in the humanities or he would be more self-conscious. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He studies my face, and I feel self-conscious, wondering if they’ve noticed I’ve only had two bites of meat and a quarter of a potato, and worrying I’ll somehow get in trouble. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Justice is self-conscious about her teeth—“the East Kentucky overbite,” she says ruefully-—she made sure early on that Anna got braces. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I felt white and self-conscious sitting there, especially with June in the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I should be embarrassed, but they're so unlike people that I'm no more self-conscious than if a trio of oddly colored birds were pecking around my feet. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He seemed self-conscious and tried to be inconspicuous, but a man of such mighty girth, festooned in gold, was hard not to see. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We were apart as when some one comes into a room and people are self-conscious. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I closed it behind me, and stood there, rather self-conscious, my hands hanging by my sides. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But for the first time in my life, I'm too self-conscious to say yes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I felt strangely panicked and self-conscious when I read that part, but there was also this quiet thrum of excitement. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z This state lasted until lunch, when suddenly 1 became self-conscious. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Taisin sat up past midnight, feeling awkward and self-conscious, staring at the page before her but not reading a word. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “At the meeting,” I said, and then I paused, suddenly self-conscious. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I looked down at the ground, instantly self-conscious. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The conversation was beginning to make me feel self-conscious. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I felt a little self-conscious about them, like maybe she would be disappointed in Dad and me if the dduk didn’t turn out right. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I...I’ve heard about that,” I said at last, self-conscious of how hushed my voice had become. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There were moments—not just today, moments every day since they'd met—when Eleanor made him self-conscious, when he saw people talking and he was sure they were talking about them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z At first Piper was self-conscious, singing in front of all her friends and a snake guy. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It made her feel a little self-conscious to wear a weapon like that, but the guards and Con, too—were all armed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious..." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I sit up to take a self-conscious look in the mirror. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Somehow, this woman managed to make Nathan feel both confident and self-conscious at the same time. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Normally it would make him self-conscious, enough that he’d skip out of lunch and go sit in an empty hallway. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z So now my baby brother who has leukemia has the added curse of self-conscious humiliation, too. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly self-conscious, Patrolman Mancuso rang the bell again and assumed what he considered his erect, official posture. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They both turned towards me with a self-conscious air, then Mrs Smith said: 'We told Dr Carlisle you were here, sir. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z From our very first conversation, he’d shown me that he wasn’t self-conscious about expressing fear or weakness and that he valued being truthful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Her front teeth were a little crooked, turning toward each other, and she was self-conscious about it, so she rarely smiled all the way. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I felt self-conscious in the second-best Cadillac and got out quickly, wishing my mother gone. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t like how much he was looking at me, because it made me feel incredibly self-conscious, but there was nothing I could say. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Two people born in the social media generation who, despite being labeled as shallow and vain, are actually super self-conscious and would rather hide behind avatars than reveal themselves.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The notion of installing a writer of Dyer’s baroquely sensitive and self-conscious temperament aboard an American aircraft carrier stationed in the Persian Gulf is obviously a stroke of genius. A neurotic writer aboard the USS George H.W. Bush 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z A lot of it, though, seems more self-conscious, more academic, than his movies did. In George Romero’s Zombie Films, the Living Were a Horror Show, Too 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Back in the early days of , the suggestion that being “book hot” helped sales sent many a writer into a self-conscious tizzy. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z Both films are unmoored from much story logic, and both are based on pulp novels, written by self-conscious carriers of the White Man’s Burden. When geniuses bomb 2012-06-12T14:00:00Z Start with her self-conscious choice of the word “Negro”. A world apart 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z And I knew that Mama Akua didn’t cry — even during the assassination in real life — so I was really self-conscious about crying. Dominique Fishback Gave Her Heart to ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z She noted that their relationship was “contingent on him continuing on this road of recovery,” and she is self-conscious about how people may perceive her letting him back into her life. Hayden Panettiere, Hoping to Leave Her Struggles Behind, Is Back Onscreen 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z By respecting and honoring their legacy, I transformed from self-conscious to confident and hopeful. How the Women of the Jemima Code Freed Me 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z As smug as he seemed, the hair smoothing betrayed him: Dr Wei was self-conscious, of what was unclear. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – extract 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Surely, a real man wouldn’t be quite so self-conscious about being a real man, right? Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Like many of Mr. Anderson’s films, including his last one, the truly fantastic “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” there’s a deliberate, self-conscious once-upon-a-time quality to “Moonrise Kingdom.” Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ With Bruce Willis 2012-05-24T22:46:29Z There are two important exceptions, moments of theater that use borrowed words and self-conscious artifice to deliver strong doses of unadorned feeling. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z While these ground rules make cheating a nonissue for Kaufman, the public embarrassment of having one’s every fondle logged rhapsodically, even with an A-plus report card, can make a man somewhat self-conscious entering a restaurant. Woody Allen Reviews a Graphic Tale of a Scandalous Starlet 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Dental hygienist Jennifer Reynolds was always self-conscious about her looks, never took selfies and felt uncomfortable being tagged in photographs posted on social media. Nip, tuck, click: Demand for U.S. plastic surgery rises in selfie era 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Were you at all self-conscious about being white kids working in the rap idiom? The Beastie Boys Put Down the Mic and Pick Up the Pen 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The most vivid example of this tendency appears in “Excerpts from The New World Authorized Dictionary,” which is exactly what it sounds like — a self-conscious series of unrealized story ideas. Review: ‘Children of the New World’ Sees a Future of Bespoke Memories and More 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Hickock, according to Capote, had always been self-conscious about his long, lopsided face. The Long Collusion of Photography and Crime 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Gauguin is got up like a male English literature teacher having a mid-life crisis at a girls' school: all red trousers, self-conscious beret and hideous embroidered waistcoats. Reel history 2010-04-08T08:00:00Z “She’s a girl and a ninja! Can she have it all?” a voice-over asks sardonically, trying to make a self-conscious joke at the expense of the movie’s own imaginative limitations. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z His occasional anxious fits of wheezing he puts down to allergies, and he’s not at all self-conscious about the staggeringly offensive jokes he tells at the wrong time to the wrong people. Review: In ‘Keep the Change,’ Two People With Autism Find Love 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z And it’s coming at the dawn of recording, so it’s this document of our musical identity before it becomes commercialized and self-conscious. Beck Is Captivated by American Myths and a $60 Guitar 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z But the self-conscious cleverness distracts from any real engagement with the characters. ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A young man arrives, brusque, self-conscious and avid. Theater Review: Nina Arianda Stars in ‘Tales From Red Vienna’ 2014-03-19T02:00:02Z “But you don’t want to look, er … ” She seemed self-conscious about how it might sound to be confident in her own abilities. From The Archers to HBO: how Sally Wainwright conquered TV 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The Hundred Years’ War Certainly Did Drag On Bloated, gaseous, archly self-conscious and on occasion truly funny, Kenneth Lonergan’s “Medieval Play” is like a vintage “Saturday Night Live” sketch that won’t die. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z Unlike fear or anger, shame is “self-conscious”; it doesn’t erupt so much as coil around itself. The Many Uses (and Abuses) of Shame 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The young Brand was clever, but hopelessly ill-disciplined, self-conscious about his looks – he was slightly tubby as a child – and unhappy at home. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z “It wasn’t meant to be ridiculously self-conscious, but there is a thing about summing up certain things, which I wasn’t necessarily trying to do, but they started appearing,” he said. Tarantino did not tell Polanski about film set against Manson murders 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Opening night shows are tricky because their audiences are reserved and often self-conscious. Twyla Tharp on the Road: It’s About Time 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Danner aside, the attractive cast members register as a little sheepish, as if self-conscious about trying to make ersatz Chekhov sound like the real thing while maintaining the rhythms of laugh-track banter. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “If you’re very self-conscious, you’re not focused on others. You have less bandwidth to be focused on other people,” Yarrow says. Rent the Runway means you can always wear something new. Should you have to? 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z He doesn’t so much strip it down, or fill it with self-conscious ironies and stylistic flourishes, as simply open it out. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z We had to learn to become less self-conscious, to stop viewing every move through the warped lens of a Facebook photo album. Modern Love: A Love for the Ages, but Which One? 2011-05-12T21:31:23Z And while Bedlam doesn’t go in for a lot of self-conscious fourth-wall breaking, it prefaces both of its current productions by having the cast members roam casually among the audience. 'Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility,' From Bedlam Company 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “I hadn’t felt that self-conscious in a very long time,” Isaac said. Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Stories We Tell is a challengingwork, with that startling use of reconstructions, which are arguably self-conscious and in questionable taste. Stories We Tell – review 2013-06-27T14:29:01Z Or to put it another way: The anxious, self-conscious, perpetually dissatisfied persona Mr. Allen projected in his films of the ’70s presented neurosis not as a mental disorder but as a style. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z These are people who are self-conscious of their own emerging individuality, unsure of the appropriateness of their bodies and clothes. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z But the self-conscious preachiness and gaseous prose of the first book have been toned down. What Did the Fiction Best-Seller List Look Like 25, 50, 75 Years Ago? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The book doesn’t begin in earnest until its midpoint, when the self-conscious Allen makes way for letters Michael wrote from behind bars. A Lamentation for a Life Cut Short 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z I distinctly remember feeling self-conscious in the usage, and Pammy bristled: she did not like being called a guy. The New Pronoun in Town 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z He occasionally aligned himself with high art in a way that felt self-conscious. “The Bells”: Lou Reed Out of Doors 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z They all admit to nerves and feeling self-conscious on the first day of filming. The friends who foiled a gunman - and are now playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood movie 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Things I may have otherwise been too self-conscious to include, not wanting this film to ever feel like it was aping earlier works. The J.J. Abrams Interview: Inside Super 8 2011-06-06T10:25:00Z “The next day he wore cargo shorts and mentioned he was a chubby kid and was always self-conscious about wearing them,” she said. How a ‘Horrible Situation’ Turned Into a ‘Wonderful Blessing’ 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But Man Made weaves these difficult moments in with the easy-going, less self-conscious ones – Caminiti making hand shadows on the wall with his mother-in-law, or Weaver teaching his son to flex before a McDonald’s trip. Man Made: behind a powerful documentary about trans bodybuilders 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Do you get self-conscious about watching your own films? Al Pacino on ‘The Godfather’: ‘It’s Taken Me a Lifetime to Accept It and Move On’ 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z While theoretical academics and self-conscious modernists shy away from the sentimental pitfalls of such subjects as love, sex and death, the country and western crooners would give the human tragi-comedy full unashamed voice. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-19T23:09:33Z When they huddle together and share dialogue, the effect is more self-conscious than universalizing. Review: ‘C.O.A.L (Confessions of a Liar)’ Opens at 59E59 Theaters 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The result was an awkward mix of respectability and self-conscious levity. Review: The Western Wind Performs ‘L’Amfiparnaso’ at a Distance 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z It was a self-conscious choice: He’d shot his debut, “Swingers,” in 18 days too. Doug Liman made the ultimate lockdown movie IN lockdown 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Coach took one look at me and realized I was deeply stunned and self-conscious. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z Back in Philadelphia she became a homebody, studious and a bit self-conscious about being recognized as “the girl from ‘Spanglish.’ ” Sarah Steele, Star of LCT3’s ‘Slowgirl’ 2012-06-29T01:00:26Z Americans during the era were also self-conscious about political representation, and perhaps saw a connection between representing themselves in visual form and being represented as political actors in the emerging democratic system. Review | Before photography, the silhouette helped leave an impression 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z These meta-theatrical tangles and the self-conscious musing about the blurred boundaries between art and life are the least interesting parts of this frequently involving play. Review: ‘The Twentieth-Century Way’ Explores a Moment in Gay History 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z “Too self-conscious. I let people rob me of a simple pleasure.” John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z I wish had not felt so shy and self-conscious in a swimsuit all those years, because I don’t look quite as much like Brigitte Bardot or Sofia Vergara as I hoped. Motherlode Blog: Anne Lamott Answers Your Questions 2012-04-19T20:55:22Z Also, the right to think about things normally, without having to filter them, without having to please or be self-conscious. Perspective | Second Women’s Voices Theater Festival arrives as #MeToo is in the spotlight 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z That’s part of why it’s a little shocking to hear the 30-year-old Brit admit she only recently stopped feeling self-conscious about it. Jessie Ware's New Album is Bolder Than Ever 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The cinema’s self-conscious modernity arose when its makers put a virtual mirror into its lenses and revealed the filmmaking process in the films themselves. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Maybe, as you said, he’s self-conscious and thus touchy about any suggestion that he’s not on top of things. @Work Advice: Bossypants and the sassy subordinate 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Or is just going through poses, like a self-conscious teenager at an outdoor disco in 1980s Italy? Why Call Me By Your Name should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The anecdote is a self-conscious corollary to a famous incident in Solnit’s earlier feminist work, “Men Explain Things to Me.” Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “You can see yourself, so you’re constantly monitoring yourself, feeing self-conscious. I just didn’t feel like I could be as authentic and it took a lot of mental energy, like I was coming into work.” Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z The show-tune shapeliness of her melodies is often a sardonic frame for grim sentiments, to be faced with a ballooning bass line and a self-conscious smirk. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Aside from a few bravura scenes here and there, this self-conscious, tricked-up volume consists largely of gruesome anecdotes — which feel contrived for maximum gross-out value — desultorily strung together like ugly beads on a filthy string. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z “That sucks,” she said by phone, and not only for business reasons: a sparse crowd gets self-conscious and is hesitant to laugh. The Art and Anxiety of Booking a Hit Comedy Showcase 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Its builders were self-conscious about status, and looked to such cities as Boston and Baltimore for precedents. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The libretto, much of it taken directly from Durrell's play, is self-conscious "fine writing", which is difficult to sing. Glanville-Hicks: Sappho – review 2012-12-19T16:22:10Z It’s hard for me to have a good cry on Zoom; I’m not with other people, and I feel self-conscious with people watching me cry on video. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z We don't have to be as self-conscious about it as you might think. Samantha Bee teases big election coverage, from presidential harassment to a strategic joy offensive 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z This story of four teens mooning around the fictional Massachusetts town of Capeside, falling in and out of love with each other while speaking in exceptionally long sentences, was both highly self-conscious and highly affecting. Your next box set: Dawson's Creek 2011-01-21T07:59:00Z “When I was watching the convention, I grew self-conscious,” Noah said. Guilfoyle’s loud RNC speech makes her the comics’ favorite 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z His fourth album as Iron and Wine is accordingly packed with sounds that a more self-conscious indie-folk musician wouldn't contemplate. Iron and Wine: Kiss Each Other Clean ? review 2011-01-20T23:20:01Z Obama was the central character in his letters, in a self-conscious way, with variations on the theme of his search for purpose and self-identity. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z A gracious host, Mr. Mendelsohn allowed himself the occasional moment of self-conscious sheepishness. O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z The most conspicuously self-conscious person in front of a camera is always, charmingly, Hawke. Ethan Hawke’s Life-Changing Music Lesson 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Very similar themes lie at the heart of his disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel, “C.” Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man?s Bucolic Idyll 2010-09-05T21:34:00Z If documentary filmmakers in the mid-sixties turned their attention to actors, it’s because modern documentary filmmaking is defined by its self-conscious attention to how its participants are transformed into performers. What to Stream This Weekend: Documentary As Performance 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Lester says Othello's otherness manifests itself most in his speech, which is orotund – Iago calls it bombastic – and self-conscious. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the idea of the presidential “bully pulpit,” wasn’t self-conscious about suggesting summer reading that might be seen as dangerously egg-headed for a modern president. Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He?s Reading? 2010-09-03T18:21:00Z There was a degree of self-conscious retro-ness to the experience that I found bittersweet, because it was inspired by someone else’s nostalgia for something I knew firsthand. In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z And when, five years later, Hnath came up with a drolly self-conscious sequel to “A Doll’s House,” Metcalf turned out to be the ideal bridge between the Ibsen heroine of then and now. How Laurie Metcalf Became the Sarah Bernhardt of Broadway 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Iyer and his partners sound like a spontaneous ensemble from the outset – not self-conscious participants in a fusion experiment. Vijay Iyer: Tirtha ? review 2011-04-07T20:46:00Z I was always self-conscious and could never understand why any woman would find me attractive. My looks: the unlikely sex symbols 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z I found myself identifying with some, particularly the ones who seem to be ill at ease in their settings, overly self-conscious about their poses and, most poignantly, uncomfortable in their own skins. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z You don't really notice its complexity live, which is meant as a compliment: it sounds like gripping, visceral rock, rather than a self-conscious attempt at high art. The Who Play Quadrophenia | Pop review 2010-03-31T21:40:00Z It could have been written by the exhaustingly self-conscious Franklin, who specializes in creating “these weird dolls of black boys,” as he describes them, “possibly me, all naked, deformed.” Review: This ‘Daddy’ Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z There’s also the worry that it will make them more self-conscious. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z As the two male head writers, Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Biegel remain self-conscious about that perception, and about the male perspective that they bring to the characters. A Sitcom Orbits Mars and Venus 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z “Like all teenagers, I was massively self-conscious, and it taught me the importance of living and not taking things for granted and, ultimately, it doesn’t matter what you look like.” Claire Foy’s Moment 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z It was a film that exasperatingly failed to deliver on its promise, featuring a somewhat self-conscious performance from Marling. Sound of My Voice – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z And I’m really feeling a bit self-conscious if I’m being totally honest. Autechre Worked in Isolation for Decades. Now It’s Unintentionally Timely. 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z An early fight scene features some whimsical ricochets reminiscent of “Tears of the Black Tiger,” but done without the comically self-conscious astonishment. The Stifling Decency of “Captain America: Civil War” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Despite the number of hot, headless torsos looking for a hookup, I was too self-conscious. “You’re too vanilla”: Confessions of a sexually tame gay man 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z She became so self-conscious that she doesn't wear jeans at all. Kindergartner's book aims to educate other kids about obesity, bullying 2011-04-07T18:03:05Z “Why not be successful now? . It’s really easy to get self-conscious about putting something on a wall and calling it art.” Ala artist covering town’s walls with drawings 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z You might suppose this would result in a little too much self-conscious literariness, but Solie tempers her lines with good humor and an attractive populism. A Canadian Poet Channels a 7th-Century Scottish Hermit 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z When Sondheim first heard her version live on stage, he famously realized that the lyricist's voice was too strong, too self-conscious and the character's voice was weak. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z A sense that such a thing would involve a self-conscious bit of playacting by some poor fellow who would have to figure out how to carry out official duties while preserving his delicate manhood. Perspective | Farewell Chasten: an elegy for the first gents who might have been 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Though “A Separation” is not as formally self-conscious, turning as it does on competing views and after-the-fact reconstructions of a contested event, it works in a similar vein. Movie Review: He?s Jafar Panahi, but ?This Is Not a Film? 2012-02-29T00:00:06Z For the second section Baehr starts moving around, giving us the full body language of laughter – ranging from self-conscious twitchy amusement to collapsing shudders of hilarity. Laugh ? review 2011-01-28T18:36:56Z His portrayal of Manson is the least self-conscious yet most disturbing of any on screen. Behind the bloodshed: the chilling untold stories about Charles Manson 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z I could probably learn, but the structure of it all makes me antsy and self-conscious. The pesky mushroom cookies I bake for Betsy, my late mother-in-law 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z But also self-conscious: “Uck, I hate my round face!” she says, squeezing her cheeks, while scrutinizing another picture. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Henry James dismissed even “War and Peace” as a “loose, baggy monster,” in order to justify the self-conscious formalism of his own books. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z Stephen Mangan: 'I was always self-conscious and could never understand why any woman would find me attractive.' My looks: the unlikely sex symbols 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z To her credit, Hansen-Love doesn’t turn “Bergman Island” into a self-conscious philosophical puzzle. ‘Bergman Island’ Review: Love Among the Cinephiles 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The self-conscious narrator, the kooky parents and above all the dying girl — these elements are likely to raise alarms among grown-up admirers of the auteurs whom Earl and Greg mock and revere. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z She was incredibly self-conscious about her body, especially her hair, and she talked about the problems she had connecting with men. Richard Goldstein's 'Another Little Piece of My Heart' recalls '60s 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z But I’ve never felt self-conscious about the way I’m moving, even though he’s very specific.” Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z There's a necessarily self-conscious quality to films such as and The Social Network and this limits their ability to transport us. Why fact-based stories are destroying the art of fiction 2011-01-23T00:04:25Z “Girls that age can be self-conscious about their changing or not-changing bodies and pull in,” she says, adding that the important point is that you don’t back out of the situation. How to talk to kids about sex 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Jacobson is a highly self-conscious writer, and the reader's possible objections to all this feature heavily in this story. Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-30T07:00:42Z Even though I was not going to talk about being Arab all the time, but it made me become self-conscious about my own heritage in ways pre-9/11 . Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Throughout her opening variation her dancing looked strained, her manner muted to self-conscious hauteur. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z I’d be incredibly self-conscious and would dodge the subject, too, but that’s why I didn’t audition for, get cast on, and take time off work to appear on, a show called “Dating Naked.” “Dating Naked”: Welcome to the nude reality-show boom 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z But it does so in a mannered and self-conscious way. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: We’re All Walt’s Children 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z There’s something too self-conscious — overcompensating much? — about Bob’s taking on the part of the stay-at-home father and Helen’s embarking on her solo adventures. Review: ‘Incredibles 2’ Is a Fast Blast (With Red Flags) 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Directed by Mr. Nelson, “Sweet and Sad” is an extended, seemingly haphazard conversation that is suffused with a self-conscious sense of the unspoken. Critic?s Notebook: Richard Nelson and Jonas Hassen Khemiri?s Takes on 9/11 2011-09-21T22:01:28Z There’s this thing with Fred Astaire, and he’s dancing, and he sees a mirror and he shies away from it, moves away from it, because he doesn’t want to be self-conscious. Third Eye Blind’s second act: Stephan Jenkins still living that semi-charmed rock life 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z But some of these asides are overly self-conscious, lacking the wit and surprise of Mr. Freeman’s earlier plays. Theater Review: In ‘Why We Left Brooklyn,’ Angst Reigns Supreme 2013-09-06T20:59:52Z But he added that it could also make restorers self-conscious — “thinking of your appearance, the impression you make to onlookers. This will affect your work.” Showtime at the Musée d’Orsay: Watching Varnish Dry 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z That alternative title is offered with a self-conscious, broken laugh. Karen Finley Relives the AIDS Epidemic in ‘Written in Sand’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The reason this becomes problematic for the middle classes is because, as Perry points out, they are acutely self-conscious. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z Soon—in the movie’s key moment of self-conscious comedy—Roland joins her in taking in the show. Angelina Jolie Pitt’s “By the Sea” Is Personal and Daring 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In talking about their instinctive connection might they risk making it self-conscious? Review: Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo Sizzle in ‘Roméo et Juliette’ at the Met 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Many of his answers had the vague, scripted ring of someone determined not to say more than necessary, though he also seemed self-conscious about his pro forma responses. The Oscars: Brad Pitt Discusses ?Moneyball? and ?Tree of Life? 2011-12-30T18:44:10Z They’re great, because they know how to act and not be self-conscious. Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Lady Gaga practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle, one that’s become an escalating arms race of self-conscious oddity. Lady Gaga's Performance at the Oscars Could Redefine Her Career 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Docile and self-conscious, he’s not motivated by vanity or fame. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z These aspects of “Sweet Tooth” keep the reader trucking on through the novel, but alas they’re insufficient compensation for the story’s self-conscious contrivance and foreseeable conclusion. Books of The Times: ‘Sweet Tooth’ by Ian McEwan 2012-11-05T19:17:19Z The poses are too exaggerated, the expressions strangely self-conscious. Art Review: A Boris Mikhailov Survey Looks at Ukraine’s Soviet Era 2014-01-23T22:50:48Z See More Videos » How quaint and self-conscious they look, frozen in stiff postures and solemn expressions. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z Granting kids time and space not to be self-conscious is such a gift. Carolyn Hax: When a child’s happy humming turns, well, annoying 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But there is a particular style of object and image today that is self-conscious about kitsch and pop in a way that I believe is genuinely indebted to Koons. That Jeff Koons twist goes beyond balloon dogs 2011-01-13T12:01:06Z Freddie was very self-conscious about his teeth and was often trying to hide them with his lip. The Man Behind Freddie Mercury’s Teeth in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z It’s a kind of conviviality that let this loud American, usually self-conscious about playing to stereotype in Paris, guffaw without shame that night. A New Paris Bistro Equal Parts Convivial and Tasty 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z I didn’t care enough to wake up early and put on makeup or style my hair, yet I was keenly self-conscious. My Husband Wore Really Tight Shorts to the Eclipse Party 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But their clothes weren’t flamboyant, boastful or self-conscious. Perspective | Their testimony was pointed. Their clothes were reassuringly dull. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z The first Sharknado became an unexpected viral hit and instant camp classic, creating a self-conscious media furor; it was Reid’s first buzzy role after nearly a decade of straight-to-video horror flicks and bawdy comedies. Taradise Lost: Sharknado's notorious party girl gets older, and wiser — maybe 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Back when I saw it, I admired the ambition of writer-director Rian Johnson's debut but thought the specificity of the language was too self-conscious and kept the audience at arm's length. 5 favorite Joseph Gordon-Levitt performances 2012-09-27T23:08:13Z Ms. Moss’s script is without the shrill, self-conscious worthiness that sometimes cripples productions with social mandates. | 'This Wide Night': Edie Falco and Alison Pill as Reunited Ex-Cons 2010-05-17T02:15:00Z There’s no doubt that Cruz, the titular honoree, is beautiful, incandescently so, but it’s a little ironic—and by ironic, I mean pretty tone-deaf—that Jones feels so self-conscious about the assignment. Close-reading the weird canon of “Sexiest Women Alive” 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z “My lyrics were so intentionally veiled on my first and second records — my second record especially, because I was really self-conscious after the success of the first one.” Music: Tracy Bonham?s Bumpy Path From Angst to Bliss 2010-07-09T23:45:00Z It is tonally elusive, cerebral and subdued, but this is a film with a healthy, if self-conscious IQ. Beginners ? review 2011-07-21T14:00:00Z Tormented for her “fish lips” in middle school and self-conscious about her flat chest as a teen, Richards opted for breast implants at 19 and had a second augmentation just before shooting “Wild Things.” The unbelievable believability of Denise Richards 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Scholl occasionally opts for self-conscious style over simplicity; his characters face away from one another during conversational exchanges, a device that may be meant to illustrate generalized alienation but that actually undermines emotional connections. A troubled adolescent's downward spiral, and the vortex that pulls down the whole family 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z "I remember being self-conscious, but I didn't feel necessarily bad. I felt good from that shoot, I felt pretty in that moment," Turlington added. The 12 biggest bombshells from Apple’s “The Super Models” docuseries 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z Michael, who speaks in the conversational idioms of Ruth’s generation, is just as wry, self-conscious and understated as she is. Review: In ‘Lace Crater,’ Regretting That Tryst With a Ghost 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z “Oh, there was one year she thought she didn’t want to film. She was feeling self-conscious, puberty hit. But then she realised she was getting paid, and she was like, oh, OK!” Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z She looks back on those years as a self-conscious young woman grappling with “generational self-loathing” with more compassion now. Taylour Paige on ‘Zola,’ Grace and Being Kinder to Herself 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Scott is also surprisingly self-conscious, about her height, about how people perceive her lifestyle, though she jokes and uses that to her advantage. L’Wren Scott — Fashion, Mick Jagger and Now a Fragrance 2012-12-12T22:49:09Z But the clothes seemed less self-conscious than that label suggests: easy pieces with careful craftsmanship. Special Report: A Sunshine State of Mind 2010-09-16T15:40:00Z One thing I am self-conscious about is the etiquette of being shirtless; I have no mental map for the nuances of having a chest that can – though often shouldn't – be revealed in public. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z His new collection seemed somehow less self-conscious about achieving an aesthetic nirvana through khaki design. | Fashion Review: Men?s Wear From Bastian, Plokhov, Ervell - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z “If you grew up very self-conscious, feeling that you’re not as good as other people, I think that it defines you,” she said. Jeannette Walls Settles Down Far From the Noise of New York 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z For its part, the movie is definitely not self-conscious about its violent bits, its Nazi regalia or a particularly joyful sex scene. ‘Freaks vs. the Reich’ Review: Band of Others 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But most of the historical characters have always felt constricted by real-life fidelity and the show’s self-conscious use of them. REVIEW: Boardwalk vs. Empire: Can HBO's Gangster Chronicle Bring Its Two Sides Together? 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z As a matter of fact, I always felt less self-conscious when I was playing a character. With a Rebel Yell, Molly Shannon Claims Collusion 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z But the décor is shinier, the pace a little faster, the overall atmosphere slick and efficient, with a few welcome grace notes of self-conscious classicism. | 'Tangled': Back to the Castle, Where It?s All About the Hair 2010-11-23T23:03:00Z As we crowded into the enormous, expensively appointed theater, I felt a little self-conscious that the four of us – middle-aged men without wives or children – didn’t belong. The high school musical that might have saved me: Watching a high school production of “A Chorus Line” in middle age showed me how much I missed 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Yet the script often feels as inhibitingly self-conscious as Ellis does as a host, suggesting a class writing assignment dutifully carried out by a precocious pupil who would rather be working on something else. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z This latter-day “Road” can feel self-conscious in its lyrical speech and in the choreographed movement overseen by Jonathan Watkins. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The self-conscious question at the heart of the endeavor is: Why this play, and why now? ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z And because Shakespeare’s dialogue on screen nearly always seems to be framed in self-conscious quotation marks, it was refreshing to see a movie that created that effect deliberately. ‘Shakespeare in Love: The Play,’ in London 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is a strong piece of cinema, human but unsentimental, stylish but not self-conscious. 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' aims for a coming-of-age rarity 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z I’ve always been self-conscious about sounding gay because I was teased for it as a kid. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The band’s growing audience, particularly after its debut won the Mercury Prize as the best album of 2009, made them only more self-conscious. The xx Lets the Sunshine In 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z This is neither as confusing nor as devious as it might sound, since “Moonglow” is less a self-conscious postmodern high-wire act than an easygoing hybrid of forms. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Then I got really self-conscious about the bad accent, which I thought was going to be super easy. "Sex Lives" star Pauline Chalamet on civic duty: "We have to pay attention to our democracy" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Which also meant that when, 30 years later, having become less keen on Shaw's didacticism and self-conscious wit, I decided to sell out, a clear minus profit was made. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z She isn’t self-conscious about operating between mediums, and her work doesn’t ask clever formal questions. Zilia Sánchez’s Island of Erotic Forms 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z I was able to navigate and not feel self-conscious. The Uphill Battles of Black Talent Agents in Hollywood 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Both exalted the creation of “children and art” as a refutation of the nihilism of “Sweeney Todd” and as a self-conscious, morally high-minded investment in humanity. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Her father is so self-conscious of his size that he once wore sweatpants and a sweatshirt at SeaWorld. Amusement parks are an expensive way to stand in line while roasting in the sun 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z In “Prep,” Sittenfeld’s blockbuster debut, she portrayed a middle-class young woman attending an elite boarding school, someone self-conscious about being self-conscious. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z I’ve been self-conscious about sounding gay since middle school, when I was bullied for being effeminate. David Thorpe asks provocative questions in ‘Do I Sound Gay?’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z I was thinking about being an artist and, specifically, how I used to get really self-conscious at festivals. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z To avoid making her self-conscious, I suppose, the restaurant even charged us both the same amount, $13. Restaurant Review: Javelina in Gramercy Park 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But “Unnatural Acts” is not artistically self-conscious, at least not in that way. | 'Unnatural Acts' : Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago 2011-06-24T02:01:10Z What it is to be young and self-conscious, yet inwardly irrepressible; old and irritable and yet intellectually resurgent: the discrepancies are a potent source of tragedy or humour. Alice Neel: Painted Truths 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Both were self-conscious stutterers who learned to endure, and perform under, the most intense scrutiny. Little Big Men: ‘The Luckiest Guy in the World’ and ‘Goliath’ 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z The breadth and elasticity of her vocabulary is brilliant – she's playing with language, but not in a self-conscious way; there doesn't seem to be any self-consciousness about it at all. Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award 2010-03-30T19:20:00Z One might have expected a bunch of cultural terrorists to produce a work of impenetrable self-conscious artspeak. Altai by Wu Ming – review 2013-06-01T08:02:25Z Taylor Swift, characteristically, was smarter in using the highly watched VMAs to promote "Shake It Off," the self-conscious pop-crossover single she released just last week. MTV Video Music Awards 2014: Beyonce shows the stars how it's done 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z I also like the performance because it seems to have less of that self-conscious sex-selling attitude. Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time 2011-08-06T20:43:02Z The director Michael Tully’s wan and sentimental period drama, set in Ocean City, Maryland, in the summer of 1985, feels like a hard-edged filmmaker’s self-conscious embrace of his gentler side. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z “I used to be so self-conscious,” he once said, “that when I attended a football game, every time the players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.” Jackie Mason, 93, Dies; Turned Kvetching Into Comedy Gold 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Its furnishings include an interrogation table with a microphone and about 20 chairs, which are periodically rearranged, though without any of the self-conscious cleverness associated with story theater. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z A story line from the first season about an app called “Woke or Not,” for example, mercilessly parodied the characters’ self-conscious commitment to social justice. Why the Creator of ‘Dear White People’ Is Doubling Down on Identity Politics 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In this new Netflix original anime, a shy boy will express himself via haiku poem to his bubbly but self-conscious crush, leading to a brief but magical summer. From female assassins to sexy beasts, here's what's new on Netflix in July 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z Young children are often not self-conscious and embarrassed; it is beautiful. Their 4-year-old wants to sleep without clothes 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z “I was really self-conscious about being the only really physically gay-looking one” of the plaintiffs, Ms. Perry said in an interview. This Woman’s Job Is to Recast Hillary Clinton’s Image 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s a spacious, informal place operating out of a strip mall, so you don’t need to feel self-conscious wandering in here in ski boots. What to Do in Lake Tahoe 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z I am self-conscious in bathing suits, so most of my tourism is done through books. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The current upswell has been built on this granite foundation: Jazz musicians are nothing if not self-conscious about their forebears. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z In his review in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called it “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song.” What’s on TV Thursday: The Critics’ Choice Awards and ‘S.W.A.T.’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “It was stylish, funny, jazzy, soulful, smart and everything else. Tribe was socially conscious without being too self-conscious about it.” Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of hip-hop’s influential A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Graham liked to say how her father had taught her that the body never lies, though the strained, self-conscious performances by her own company — both in her lifetime and after — have often disproved this theory. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z On both of its albums, Wood is the band’s frazzled-sounding, acutely self-conscious focal point. Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z “Ready to Die” is more historically self-conscious than “Raw Power”; no doubt deliberately, it runs less than a minute longer than the 34-minute “Raw Power” LP. New Music: Iggy and the Stooges, Darcy James Argue, Kenny Chesney 2013-04-29T21:31:45Z He’s not the least bit self-conscious or embarrassed. Everyone’s amiable goofball takes a big leap 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “I have never been self-conscious about my height,” he once said, according to the Sun, a British tabloid. Neil Fingleton, actor on ‘Game of Thrones,’ dies at 36 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z There seem to be three variations on the deliverance ending: transcendence through death to a heaven or a paradise; escape from an institution; or a self-conscious meta-narrative pivot. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z I actually became self-conscious to say Arab at that point. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z And the first day I went in, I remember all of a sudden feeling really self-conscious about being there, and putting "Mr. McBride" on the board. Q&A: Danny McBride of HBO's 'Eastbound & Down' 2010-09-24T08:20:00Z It's an occupational hazard, and she's slightly self-conscious about it as she sits down at her desk. Calligraphers still aiming to be letter-perfect 2011-08-15T15:55:21Z I admired its daring but found it too self-conscious ... maybe I should revisit it. 4 tough teens at the movies 2012-03-28T20:41:03Z The positive side is that those vintage styles arrive with both youthful fervor and a self-conscious streak. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z The cinematography and music are moody, evocative and overly intrusive — the filmmaking is too self-conscious ever to relax into true creativity. Television Review: ‘The Bridge’ Adapts a Scandinavian TV Crime Series 2013-07-09T20:28:57Z But time has rendered it deeply prescient: Barley occupied a perfectly sealed echo chamber of self-conscious idiocy, and he self-branded furiously, long before social media came for our souls. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z This isn’t perfectly analogous, but I was in Japan a few months ago, and I felt very self-conscious in a place where I was noticeably different from everyone around me. Q. and A.: Chris Rock Is Itching for Dirty Work 2012-08-01T12:00:24Z He’s too smart, too self-conscious, too familiar with the world to put on a show. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Do you get self-conscious seeing yourself on screen? "Game of Thrones" alum Michiel Huisman: "Celebrity has been a slow build for me" 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It really isn’t all that easy for young, self-conscious performers to portray young, self-conscious characters convincingly. Theater Review: David Rabe?s ?Early History of Fire,? at the Acorn Theater 2012-05-01T02:00:00Z Ms. Krall is self-conscious enough to call this enterprise into question herself, or so it seems. New Music: The Debut of Ultraísta, and ‘Glad Rag Doll’ by Diana Krall 2012-10-01T21:36:40Z When I take a breather and switch my gaze to his fingers, he raps my knuckles with an abashed camp that’s pure Gustave: “I see you watching my hands; I’m feeling very self-conscious now.” Ralph Fiennes: Loosey Goosey? ‘I like that!’ 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z “The characters are nervous, insecure and acutely self-conscious. Even in the climactic comic set piece of sustained, high-velocity banter, the rat-a-tat-tat dialogue is tense and seamed with hostility, suspicion and hidden agendas.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘New Girl’ and ‘Mistress America’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The production is probably too stately and self-conscious to achieve such full, senses-blurring immersion. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Unlike their more self-conscious peers, Oasis did not alternately idealize and snigger at consumer culture from a distance. Pop music’s elitism problem: Why Oasis never got the respect they deserved 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z In this edgy, creatively self-conscious show directed by Radoslaw Rychcik, the art of the deal is ultimately between actors and spectators. Review: 'In the Solitude of Cotton Fields' veers into unfamiliar, unsettling territory 2011-01-14T20:43:08Z I felt self-conscious about peppering her with questions. Medieval meets modern in charming Kilkenny, Ireland 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z This production is, by far, the most exclusive of any that Mr. Rogers has crafted: Normally, it does not even include an audience, as it makes the actors too self-conscious. Exit the Dungeon Master. Tonys Rehearsal Is Calling. 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z I thought being as self-aware and self-conscious as possible allowed me some integrity in writing about it. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But in no place is it more central than in the writers’ rooms of Hollywood, where television references are constant, circular and so self-conscious. The TV Watch: Veiled Apologies and Few Surprises 2011-09-19T04:28:08Z “I felt self-conscious. A year ago, you’d look at someone who wasn’t wearing a mask and judge them, and that’s the reverse now.” My Mask, My Safety Signal 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Then came a wave of very public plastic surgeries for Ms. Leathers, including breast implants, liposuction and a nose job, “because she is self-conscious of her body from the media backlash,” Ms. Rodriguez said. Gina Rodriguez, Former Porn Actress, Helps D-Listers With Their Image 2014-03-06T00:44:21Z The classroom scenes, while periodically hampered by hackneyed dialogue about dress codes and black women’s hair, derive incisive commentary from a self-conscious white gaze. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a woman collapses under the obligations of modern life 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In the works of Palladio and Michelangelo, the architect becomes a self-conscious creative star. Palladio's Redentore: an architect's dream 2010-08-03T14:37:00Z There are fewer patches here of the self-conscious, purple prose that bogged down earlier novels like “Flesh and Blood” and “Specimen Days.” Books of The Times: ‘The Snow Queen,’ by Michael Cunningham 2014-04-27T21:00:17Z Most dramatic of all is James Alliban's Traces, which converts the most self-conscious of visitors' gestures into an amazement of spaced-out light ribbons and flashing particles. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-01T23:06:18Z Downtown is indeed saturated with watering holes, from self-conscious hipster cocktail emporiums to finance-bro martini zones. Da Vinci fire follow-up: Good urbanism not just architecture and bars 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Exchanging slightly self-conscious banter about their plans for the evening — a sexual tryst involving a third party, we eventually learn — they both admit to feeling slightly ill at ease. Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Far from a solemn, self-conscious act of reclamation, it is more a jaunty tip of the hat to the pop music of his parents’ generation. New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney 2012-02-06T16:02:08Z The mix of perturbing imagery and self-conscious knowingness leads to awkward uncertainties of mood from start to finish. Carmen ? review 2011-01-18T21:30:00Z “As a man, I’m a little self-conscious,” Mr. Unger, 35, said. When a Man Needs a Safe Place 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Any time the actors felt self-conscious, we were instantly taken out of the story. Film: It?s the Relationships, Stupid 2010-11-20T19:13:00Z I felt a little self-conscious as she engaged me with questions. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z I'll probably keep the drivers' licenses with my dad's weird self-conscious expressions, and some of the old coins, and a few angry letters he wrote, to colleagues and to the local newspaper. How hoarding shows cured my hoarding 2010-04-10T23:01:00Z Will they become self-conscious in front of the camera or lose interest? Growing Up on ‘Mad Men’: A Conversation With Matthew Weiner and Kiernan Shipka 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z “I did my best,” Douglas says, “but my manner was queasy and self-conscious, like a children’s entertainer who knows his act is failing.” ‘Us’: A fractured family’s trip into parenthood’s regrets It’s “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Disappearance’ and ‘True Life: We Are Orlando’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Bruno Mars, less famous than either but unique in his role as a self-conscious throwback act, got to burnish his reputation as a live performer. What the Super Bowl Halftime Show Means for Katy Perry 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Dowling reclaims him as a self-conscious, committed artist who strove to break through the limits of production and get as much of the human condition onstage as possible. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons Their work doesn’t convey aching insecurity wrapped in a layer of self-conscious cool. Perspective | At the Paris shows, disparate points of view beautifully coexist 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Whereas Rebecca likes to wear styles “that emphasize an hourglass figure,” usually dresses cinched at the waist, but they can make her self-conscious. My boobs, my burden 2014-02-24T01:00:00Z I felt pretty self-conscious when everyone turned around thinking I was calling out to them. A boy named Sue? Why not! I named my kids Yo and E 2014-03-22T23:00:00Z And as staged with inventive efficiency by Trip Cullman and performed by a top-flight cast of four, “Murder Ballad” is also self-conscious in just the right way. Theater Review: ‘Murder Ballad,’ With Karen Olivo, at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z On “Melodrama,” her second album, Lorde’s nights out are a swirl of drunken flirtations and reckless hookups, where she tries to forget herself but ends up more lonely and self-conscious than ever. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Credit for this feat can be spread around: it begins with their earnest and sweaty experience as a throwback bar band in a scene more accustomed to rewarding the stylish and self-conscious. New Music: New Albums Include ‘A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac’ 2012-08-13T22:29:39Z Gabriel emerges in "The Dead" as perhaps the most innocent character in the entire collection of stories, while also the best educated and the most self-conscious. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z I didn’t tell her there was a specific thing I would watch for, because I didn’t want her to get self-conscious. My late grandma left a mark with her dinner rolls. Why can’t I? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z What once represented a self-conscious homage to video-game history now too often signals a genuine lack of new ideas. The Best Time-Wasting of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Being shy is often described as a drawback, but it’s actually a really valuable quality and — especially when you’re a shy person who might be a little self-conscious about it — it’s important to understand why. 10 Tips Every Introvert Should Know 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z As a brutally self-conscious mixed-race teenage girl in suburban London, one of my earliest experiences of having a black identity was the way boys behaved towards me. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Part of it was probably that, as a middle-aged soccer mom, I’m too old and too busy to be self-conscious. Coming out of the bisexual closet 2014-04-07T23:00:00Z Now in his late-20s, Gary had been self-conscious about his weight at the time, and Yoko quickly intuited the source of his anxiety. How Yoko Ono and a publishing temp saved the Beatles' Holy Grail from the scrap heap 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Focused in a self-conscious way on the show’s core ensemble, this episode ties the two strands of the show together seamlessly, using a major business development to spark intimate moments of catharsis and confession. 'Mad Men' recap: 'The beginning of something, not the end' 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Pavement hasn’t tidied up its music one bit, making clear that each dissonant guitar tangent and each jumpy melody was deliberate and self-conscious. Newbies and the Reunited Gather in the Desert 2010-04-19T21:37:00Z I had never encountered a narrative voice so much like the one inside my head: fluttery, self-conscious, goofy, melodramatic. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z I used to be self-conscious because I got so much hate from tattoo artists, who said I was a sellout. Skin Deep: Cosmetics and Artists Collaborate for Art That’s Not Just on the Face 2012-10-10T22:05:55Z Especially in these days of post-post-everything, relational aesthetics, institutional critique and endless “interventions,” art shows can be so cerebral and self-conscious, so full of high-concept attitude, that the art is lost in the shuffle. Art Review: ?If You Lived Here, You?d Be Home by Now? at Bard - Review 2011-08-25T22:30:54Z He is referred to only as “he,” a self-conscious flourish in a narrative preoccupied with the disconnect between public and private lives. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I never spoke to her about my fear, and spent the whole time worried, self-conscious and guilty. My life in sex: the queer woman who’s scared of vaginas 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z If anything, staring endlessly in the mirror, looking for changes, has made me more self-conscious about my face. I tried the foreskin facial treatment – so you don't have to 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It makes me self-conscious when I come to write the next thing.' Caryl Churchill, by the people who know her best 2012-10-03T17:44:37Z “I’d be lying if I didn’t say they make me a little self-conscious.” Men In Red Pants: Stuck in Old Cultural Baggage 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z He was creepy and self-conscious and remote and depressing. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z But in the process of trying to find my stack, I became less self-conscious. Hitting my stack: How yoga helped me understand my trans identity 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Nobody noticed or cared, but being the self-conscious alcoholic I am, I felt compelled to explain myself anyway. Nobody likes a quitter 2012-12-30T01:00:00Z The overall effect is self-conscious, giddy and sometimes funny in its absurdity. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z The realism of watching these family dynamics ebb and flow is absorbing, but the direction can be too self-conscious. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z That self-conscious, performed quality emerges further during the more expressionistic Part Two, subtitled “Walk with Me a While,” which offers up bizarre musical numbers and tap dance routines featuring selfie sticks and cellphones. Review: In ‘A Bread Factory,’ Local Artists Face Off Against the World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z It combines his teacher's brand of noisy neoclassicism with the tangos that were so deeply embedded in Piazzolla's musical makeup, though the dances appear almost in self-conscious quotation marks here. Piazzolla: Sinfonia Buenos Aires; Concerto for Bandoneon; Las Cuatro Estaciones Porte?as 2010-09-23T21:55:00Z That’s when the Plot, with a capital P, takes over, and self-conscious Important Moments occur. Theater Review: ?Tribes,? by Nina Raines, at the Barrow Street Theater 2012-03-05T03:00:00Z In this movie, though, when he goes airborne like a barnstormer, the scene’s self-conscious sense of the absurd suggests he’s trying to let his inner Harold Lloyd out to play. Review: ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ With Tom Cruise and Plenty of Stunts 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z David Turner plays the gay florist David with a bit too much self-conscious mournfulness, which thankfully dissipates when he sings, especially in a rousing version of "What Did I Have That I Don't Have." Harry Connick Jr.'s musical battles anemia 2011-12-12T22:16:12Z What you do is you teach someone to be a better and more self-conscious reader. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z "Press night is always a more self-conscious audience, but they were laughing all the way through." MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z But if it’s more self-conscious and less integrated than “This,” the play is nevertheless full of compassionate wonder at the innumerable ways in which lives can go wrong. Theater Review: ‘What Rhymes With America’ at Linda Gross Theater 2012-12-13T03:00:12Z “There’s a comfort factor,” Mr. Douglas said, “where you know there’s a pretty elite group surrounding you, but there’s not a self-conscious aura about it.” Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z "I am very self-conscious and surrounded by his ghost when I do these things," she says, waving her hand towards the Somerset House stage. After Stanley Kubrick 2010-08-18T20:31:00Z Season 2 of "True Detective" appears to have abandoned abandon; it is careful and controlled in a way that seems highly self-conscious. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z And Manhattan audiences may be less eager to embrace “That Face,” especially the cripplingly self-conscious version directed by Sarah Benson. | 'That Face': Polly Stenham?s Play Opens at City Center 2010-05-19T02:01:00Z “I’ve always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity.” Charles Kimbrough, Actor Best Known for ‘Murphy Brown,’ Dies at 86 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z With roughly 300 movies and 400,000 viewers, the Toronto festival typically doesn’t feature self-conscious awards fare that plays for Oscar watchers and opinion makers at the smaller, and immediately preceding, Telluride Film Festival. 'Nightcrawler' With Jake Gyllenhaal, Epitomizes Toronto Film Festival Fare 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Having loved the apparent selflessness with which he ascended to superstar status, I can’t help hoping he finds again the less self-conscious nobility that once made him so touching. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z These self-conscious framing devices give “Summer” an emotional substance it might otherwise lack. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The vibe was anything but self-conscious; it felt like a safe place to go nuts. Voyages: The Istanbul Art-Boom Bubble 2012-02-10T17:20:36Z “People are less self-conscious if they can’t imagine themselves in the final product.” James Longley’s “Angels Are Made of Light” Captures the Daily Despair of Ordinary Afghans 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z There was certainly a self-conscious yet reasoned examination of American society through social criticism in books like “The Lonely Crowd,” “The Status Seekers,” “The Affluent Society,” “White Collar,” “The Other America” and “The Feminine Mystique.” What Contributed to American Culture After World War II? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Its impeccably assembled elements often felt self-conscious to me, and I kept a spectator’s distance. In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “It felt like a collection of things, versus a self-conscious design statement,” he said. The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around 2012-12-05T22:44:46Z He won this time for “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” an album now known for the self-conscious single “The Monster” with Rihanna. Grammys 2015: Eminem, the rap category favorite who gets a free pass 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But while their ideas don’t feel amateur, the results come across as self-conscious. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Peter Som, Richard Chai, Kimberly Ovitz - Review 2012-02-11T00:19:47Z She summarized, “I think you go from being mindless to being self-conscious, and then you want to end up being mindless again.” Alison Krauss: Vintage Country. Modern Self-Awareness. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z They didn’t show their faces in posed pictures; they didn’t have a recognizable group sound; they put naïve questioning and absurdism above refinement and self-conscious audience building; you never knew what they’d do next, etc. Playlist: Styles That Can?t Be Pinned Down 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z Motion has fully returned from the public exile of self-conscious art. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-12-14T22:55:06Z At our most gregarious we are also our most self-conscious. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and the difficulty of being a female comic 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z But otherwise they’re as goofy, self-conscious, nervous, sloppy and obsessive as we civilians are. London Theater Journal: A Hellish Vacation 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The Sunday audience, especially those seated on stage in a "splatter zone," enjoyed all the self-conscious gruesomeness. 'Revenger's Tragedy' a sly gore-fest 2011-11-03T20:04:04Z "Language brings up all sorts of fascinating issues and questions that are part of everyone's life. It's quirky and subjective and borderline political and it's really easy to be self-conscious about. It's inherently interesting." For grammar geeks: 'Grammar Revolution' the documentary 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z I tried not to be self-conscious, which only heightened my self-consciousness. Surfing in the Age of the Omnipresent Camera 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z His performance in Awakenings was brilliantly understated and has probably lasted better than Robert De Niro's self-conscious "I'm playing an ill person! Gimme an Oscar!" hamminess. Why Robin Williams's true genius lay in his weird and wonderful comedy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It's the kind of sad, obsessive, all too self-conscious situation that Elliott Smith depicted so well, with a tune that keeps dipping back toward resignation. The Playlist: Ed Sheeran Returns With a Foot in the Past and an Eye on the Future 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t until 2002’s psychological thriller “One Hour Photo” that Williams seemed to shed the mannerisms and self-conscious quirk completely. Robin Williams: Frenetic, often fearless actor brought brutal honesty to best roles Weren’t you self-conscious in front of the camera? Karlie Kloss and Christy Turlington: Supermodels Then and Now 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z When I went back on another night, though, the plates were excessively fussed over, self-conscious and forced, with the form of haute cuisine but not the sense. An Identity Crisis at Italienne 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z You came home, fuming and self-conscious, and looked up the spelling. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z She speaks hopefully of continuing her schooling at some point, but feels self-conscious about working toward the GED at 29, when some of her younger sisters have already earned theirs. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z It’s the self-conscious, painterly coolness of subjects like a dog sadly contemplating an oversize water dish. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Mostly Mr. Fish and his fiercely committed performers are dedicating their energies to animating his brilliant, funny, self-conscious writer’s voice, whether through his recounting of his post-Sept. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z He could hardly bear her self-conscious admiration for black culture. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z “State of the Union” can be a bit self-conscious about its ideas and blatant with its metaphors. The Agreeable Staginess of “State of the Union” 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Abbi is more self-conscious, perhaps even more starry-eyed; her willingness to get roped into the most ill-advised situations generating a huge amount of the show’s comedy. Broad City: meet the 21st century comedy queens that even Hillary loves 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The chasm between the lonely, self-conscious girl and the censored, confident image she was putting into the world fascinated Burnham. Bo Burnham made a movie to work out his anxiety. It ended up explaining our Instagram age. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Nabokov’s “Ada,” the Terrence Malick film “Badlands” and Salinger’s Glass stories are also invoked — underscore the book’s more derivative, self-conscious tendencies. Review: David Means’s ‘Hystopia,’ Not Your Average War Novel 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z An archetypal Roonian protagonist, she is highly intelligent and observant, but dispassionate and self-conscious, with a habit of ruminating, rather than communicating. In ‘Conversations With Friends,’ It’s Complicated 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z “A concert offers an oasis from the daily rules about being good girls. Screaming is about letting go and leaving the confines of being the self-conscious pleaser.” Beatlemaniacs, Beliebers, Directioners — why do they scream? The freestyle rehearsal segment played to Bristol's only strength -- her complete lack of belief in herself and the self-conscious certainty that she will fail because of "all the haters out there". "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z There's something gratuitous about the show – you feel slightly self-conscious to be looking at so many painted flowers, imbibing so much visual pleasure. Floral fantasies: garden paintings reveal the radicalism of the Impressionists 2010-08-20T12:40:00Z But here he is a novice, still feeling his way with intrusively self-conscious close-ups, long shots that flatten the characters into the backgrounds, and editing that muddles the spatial relationships between the characters. DVD: At Gaumont in France When All Was Possible 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z But she’s a rotten volunteer, weepy and self-conscious, and she doesn’t seem to see the pain closer to home. | 'Please Give': Catherine Keener in Nicole Holofcener?s Comic Drama 2010-04-29T22:44:00Z I walk in and find I’m feeling a little self-conscious and don’t know exactly what to say. I Was Misinformed: Where Did You Go for Your Bra, Mrs. Robinson? 2013-06-19T13:00:01Z “Some people are so self-conscious about asking for help.” Answering a quick video call to help a blind person is ‘so awesome’ 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z However you frame the sweet yet self-conscious "What If," it pales in comparison to those and so many other rom-coms. 'What If' is a rom-com that tries too hard to charm 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z This is, in the end, a knowing and self-conscious way of letting us in on that process. Is Rihanna’s ‘Visual Autobiography’ a Triumph or a Tease? 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z With his narrow-set eyes and small, suspicious mouth, Hill plays a man who is intelligent but self-conscious and easily frazzled. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z On a conceptual level “The Warrior’s Way” is something altogether different and more self-conscious. | 'The Warrior?s Way': And Baby Makes Comedy When a Princess Is Taken West 2010-12-03T23:09:00Z I found it intriguing, but when we met, she was incredibly shy and self-conscious. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Part of that is a stay-away thing, and part of it is a self-conscious agreement with what everyone thinks of her. Arts & Leisure: David Fincher Directs ?Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 2011-12-07T13:42:28Z Contrasting Warhol's sagging male tits and self-conscious poise – the trussed-up belly, that wig, the neatness of his shoes – she gets both his woundedness and his affectation. The weird world of Alice Neel 2010-07-07T20:30:00Z I wasn't self-conscious; I didn't read magazines, just looked at them, you know? Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z We’re made to climb through an endless series of redundant and self-conscious riffs about his own prose, such as this constipated passage: Book review: ‘Against the Country,’ by Ben Metcalf 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “Eve made Adam self-conscious. Women make men self-conscious because they’re the ultimate judge. I was like, ‘Wow this is really true.’” Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z As with the director’s other works, there’s a self-conscious, constructed quality to “The Grief of Others,” but it rarely veers into the precious or the phony. Review: In ‘The Grief of Others,’ Mourning Becomes Eclectic 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z There is also the self-conscious suspicion that whatever you end up saying will ultimately reveal more about who you are than it will about the subject itself. Helping Children Understand Death 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Bill felt I was a perfectly safe lunch date—I’d never thought of myself as a danger to the disabled until our spat online— but I was now self-conscious. I was sure that legalizing aid in dying was the right thing to do. Then I met Bad Cripple 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z "I did not want to be self-conscious at all onstage when I'm sitting out there with everything hanging out." Cheyenne Jackson strips down in 'The Performers' 2012-11-12T12:27:08Z All these shows were desperately self-conscious and desperately anxious to establish their intellectual credentials, as if supposing that a plethora of knowing references to various aspects of culture must demonstrate artistic merit. Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s ‘Storing the Winter,’ in American Realness 2013-01-22T23:19:10Z The nods to these heavyweights happen in an eye blink, and they felt gratuitous and self-conscious the first time I saw “Blackhat.” ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z I enjoyed “Break in Case of Emergency,” found the observations sharp, but “The Fourth Child” is a less self-conscious, more ambitious book in every way. Welcome to the Family. Good Luck Fitting In. 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Tracy boosts Brooke’s flagging confidence as a dreamer who hasn’t gotten her start yet, and Brooke grants self-conscious Tracy a sense of her own distinct appeal. So wait, millennials aren’t the enemy? From “The Intern” to “Grandma,” the threat of looming intergenerational war has been greatly exaggerated 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z She is “socially maladroit, highly self-conscious, and disdainful of others,” Joyce Carol Oates wrote in a penetrating essay recently in The New York Review of Books. Arts & Leisure Preview: Violence That Art Didn?t See Coming 2010-02-24T19:11:00Z “I think now I’m less self-conscious about it.” On ‘The Good Place,’ Chidi Redefines the Black Nerd 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of the pieces feel capable, with some exceptions — particularly Dan LeFranc’s self-conscious “Questions for a Union Soldier,” which frets about the theater’s efficacy in the face of great issues. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’ There was a time when London was regarded as the place that Broadway musicals went to be mummified, with stiff and self-conscious renderings of shows that required all-American brass and energy to shine. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z They were often remarkably self-conscious about the process of sitting down to write. From me, with love: the lost art of letter writing 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z In part because it’s a little too retro — Mr. Niccol, between his chain-smoking male hero and mysteriously alluring heroine, wants a film noir overlay on his future, and it feels a bit self-conscious. ‘How It Ends’ and ‘No Blade of Grass’: Grim Visions of Tomorrow 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z "I've had weight issues all my life. For years, I was very self-conscious, with crash diets and eating disorders. I finally thought, 'You know what? It doesn't matter.'" 'Where the Bears Are' strikes a comic chord with a gay subculture 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z They are more obviously self-conscious on camera— they’re nervous!— and less fundamentally self-conscious on camera, because they are not living in fear that their every word will be flung around the internet forever and ever. Welcome Back “House of Style” 2012-07-25T16:15:00Z If you are self-conscious, a sleep mask will suit you better. Ostrichpillow Light - the sleep turban that has transformed my long-haul journeys 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z "It's not in a self-conscious way, either," she concludes. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z And while the producers talk about the coming show’s “anything goes” vibe, stars in the YouTube era are more self-conscious. 2010-01-13T23:46:00Z You could almost take it as a wilfully grotesque screw-you, a knowing parody of what Blur's detractors thought Parklife sounded like, were it not for the fact it seems so self-conscious and joyless. Blur: 21 – review 2012-07-26T14:30:01Z Decadence depends on a self-conscious blurring of conventional moral absolutes. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z “The change is guys being like, ‘Some of these things that are traditionally for women only are actually O.K. for me now, and I’m not self-conscious about it.’ Skin Deep: Manly Manicures End in Color 2013-06-12T21:19:02Z It allowed us to enter our life as a band with being so self-conscious. Diet Cig Plays Peppy Feminist Pop-Punk for All Ages 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z After several minutes and outfit changes, Marnell reappears in the same T-shirt and jeans with a zip-up hoodie, even though she says she is self-conscious about it revealing the sizable rash across her neck. In her debut memoir, notorious writer Cat Marnell apologizes for nothing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z How I once wanted language to save my life A student in my class, feeling self-conscious about being much older than the other students, told me he’d been in prison. David Shields: Literature saved my life! 2013-02-09T00:30:00Z It's a monster of a piece, flamboyantly self-conscious in its difficulty. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z And in the process, it also became highly self-conscious, and decidedly postmodern. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z This was Pollini at his most formidable: technically immaculate in a matter-of-fact way, rigorously intellectual without ever seeming self-conscious. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-02-16T18:18:07Z The 34-year-old, a Golden Globe winner two years ago for her role as chirpy teacher Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, is very self-conscious, very apologetic. Sally Hawkins: 'You think adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be capable' 2011-03-13T00:05:19Z One argument that men’s cosmetics are going mainstream: some men are not even self-conscious about using them. Skin Deep: Men?s Cosmetics Becoming a Bull Market 2010-09-01T22:23:00Z “I was always a thin girl growing up, and I was very self-conscious about my stomach,” Konkle said. The Catharsis of ‘Pen15’ 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z In fitting concordance with his self-conscious character, Mr. Kotlyarenko directed the film, and the story was conceived by both its stars. Review: In ‘Wobble Palace,’ a Relationship Hangs by a Stringy Toupee 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “She very likely felt self-conscious about her belly … But because it was your day and your dollar she should have chilled out and understood,” a commenter stated. Bride gets mixed reaction after telling pregnant bridesmaid to stop holding belly in wedding photos 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Sam, the “pathologically self-conscious and anxious” victim of “self-obsessed insecurity,” is intrigued. What if a Shaman Could Solve All Your Problems, in Three Days? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Often experimental, the selections are also self-conscious and terribly solemn. Critic?s Notebook: A Wave of Indie Angst Hits South Asian Cinema 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z “Until fairly recently, the Black person was self-conscious about his curly, kinky hair,” he told The New York Times in 1971. Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Adult friendship tends to adopt the vocabulary of intimacy from relationships: Gould’s characters, like hookup buddies turned earnest, have a self-conscious “define-the-relationship” conversation to establish their best-friendship; Heti’s pair circle and court one another. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And don’t look too closely at the main characters, either; spouters of self-conscious dialogue, they are only fully believable when they sing. What Makes ‘Follies’ a Classic? 7 Answers and 1 Big Problem. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “I am not self-conscious,” Ashish, 11, writes over and over in his notebook, an affirmation turned mantra. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z “People thought I had cancer, which made me really self-conscious,” Tuttle recalled. Molly Tuttle Is a Top Bluegrass Guitarist. She’s Also a Lot More. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z At 55, lean and tan, he can seem reserved because he is self-conscious about the heavy German accent he retains from his youth. Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z As she made cornbread with kids at an after-school program or toured a juvenile detention facility, critics bashed her on-air performances as awkward, self-conscious or just plain dull. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z With him all is clever, harsh and self-conscious. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z Lan reassured the girl, who was self-conscious about hers. Gaptoothed women are in vogue 2010-10-18T18:57:00Z When at Tonto’s insistence he dons the mask, he asks, like a self-conscious actor forced to wear jester’s garb, “You sure this works?” The Lone Ranger: Lost in a Western Myth 2013-07-02T18:21:11Z It’s a key to the self-conscious, the ugly essence of what’s really going on. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z It’s the way I do a gig: so self-conscious, so embarrassed. Music: The Midlife Thing, the Nightmare Thing 2011-02-24T21:48:04Z He is large, a little ungainly and charismatic without quite being handsome, and somehow able to seem at once exquisitely self-conscious and utterly obtuse. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z I think it's really amazing when people can be less self-conscious and in our heads about things. From "Class of '09" to "Black Mirror" Kate Mara loves her range of roles: "The magic is still there" 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z He was easily the least self-conscious person there. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z The result is self-conscious and unsatisfying: a shallow and naive celebratory biopic. Hitchcock – review 2013-02-07T21:00:01Z The entry ends up feeling too self-righteous and too self-conscious: deadly in humor and in writing about humor. ‘American Cornball: A Laffopedic Guide to the Formerly Funny,’ by Christopher Miller 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Many also felt the bridesmaid was just self-conscious about her own appearance, and cradled her belly in order to avoid looking “fat” in the photos — but they still sided with the bride. Bride gets mixed reaction after telling pregnant bridesmaid to stop holding belly in wedding photos 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. Kim Gordon's fresh start 2013-09-19T16:18:45Z Skyfall was a phenomenal commercial and cultural hit, but the Bond franchise is never an awards favourite, and Bafta voters may feel self-conscious about supporting it. Lincoln sets stage for celebration of US history 2013-01-09T10:53:59Z To say that “Son of Saul” is a highly stylized, self-conscious and calculating piece of narrative is not to say that it’s a bad movie, only that it’s a movie. Review: ‘Son of Saul’ Revisits Life and Death in Auschwitz 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z That is precisely what you should do, C. D. M. Do not bring up the episode, even though you feel self-conscious about it. Social Q?s: It?s All About My Mother 2011-05-05T19:03:45Z Indeed, Mr. Saban, contacted at his home in Echo Park, said he deeply welcomed the support, but felt self-conscious to be the center of attention. Former Club Kids Rally Around Stephen Saban, a Scribe of 1980s New York Culture 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z On screen both girls appear self-conscious as they grow older, and Emma in particular hardly speaks. Larry Rivers?s Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos 2010-07-07T18:08:00Z At first he was so self-conscious that he painted on the back of the canvas. William Wegman Show at Bowdoin College Museum of Art 2012-07-27T14:23:59Z It’s an album made by self-conscious visitors, with glimmers of Kurt Weill and of David Bowie’s Berlin trilogy. New Music: Albums From Clare and the Reasons and Maroon 5 2012-07-09T20:55:00Z But while his underlying views were painfully dated, his conception of banter was entirely modern: a sly expansion of the word’s meaning, and a self-conscious contention that it provided an impregnable defence. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z And so, just as in the book, she puts hers in his, they embrace, and the music swells in a self-conscious depiction of a storybook, romantic ending. Being Jo March: Little Women finally has an ending grown women deserve | Josephine Tovey 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It is full of longing — hedged, self-conscious, but palpable all the same — for a vanished way of life, in contrast to which contemporary reality seems drab and numb. Movie Review: Miguel Gomes’s ‘Tabu’ 2012-12-25T22:44:18Z Typically one should not care if an adaptation hews closely to its source material, but the references are so overt here, and self-conscious, that they bear mentioning. Review: Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ Is a Cool Cover, but It Misses Some Notes 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Whitty’s adaptation gleefully marries archaic language with self-conscious jokes and contemporary gags, to generally scintillating effect. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Most literary critics would be too self-conscious to write a passage like his Swift-swoon about their own favorite author, much less a millennial pop star. Taylor Swift joins Rilke in Michael Robbins' 'Equipment for Living,' reviewed by Justin Taylor 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z There are so many memory-searing instances of aborted contact: of clumsy hugs and self-conscious handshakes, of drunken dancing and chases and races over furniture. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z Mr. Wright’s brilliant gamble is to arrive at this level of emotional authenticity by way of self-conscious artifice. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z The tangles over Jupiter’s royal prerogative are written with comic-book crudeness that the theatrical performances don’t quite honor with self-conscious comedy. "Jupiter Ascending": Wachowskis in Outer Space 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Was it not a challenge to imagine herself into the mind and the words of a man who is so self-conscious about his masculinity? Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z And in my etiquette book, there are few offenses worse than making a probably already self-conscious adolescent even more so. Social Q’s: In-Laws and Outlaws 2013-06-20T19:05:17Z He was not just an itinerant entertainer, but a self-conscious artist striving to write timeless songs. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z His raid doesn't make sense to me except as a self-conscious act of martyrdom, intended to bring on the great conflict he believed necessary to end slavery. BookTalk: John Brown's "Midnight Rising" 2011-12-22T10:03:38Z Robert Greene is the crucial contemporary documentarian, for his recognition of the aspect of self-conscious performance that’s implied by the very presence of a camera. What to Stream This Weekend: Three Action Movies 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z On the minus side, though, it does make you more self-conscious — or it can — and that can get in the way of experiencing the movie on its own immediate terms. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z Distressed garments got a new life, as if to honor a man’s self-conscious nature about dressing well. Milan designers nudge men to dress with derring-do 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z While not essential to casual filmgoers, the study helpfully dissects, for Hitchcock obsessives, this most calculatingly self-conscious director’s methods and compulsions. Review | In ‘The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock,’ it’s the contradictions that made the man 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z “The Moving Picture Girls” is a reminder that grade-Z literature, like grade-Z movies, sometimes yields, clumsily but uninhibitedly, distinctive results that many more self-conscious and elegant works shrink from pursuing at all. The 1914 Y.A. Novel That Provides a Fascinating Look at the Movie Industry 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z There’s a theme in them of the nice guy with the dark turn of mind, self-conscious about his need to please, dealing with the stresses of being a repressed guy in an increasingly un-repressed culture. Review: Mulaney Does Its Homework Too Well 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z As a filmmaker, Mr. Alexandrowicz is self-conscious, almost as a matter of principle. Movie Review: ‘The Law in These Parts,’ Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s Documentary 2012-11-13T23:03:10Z The heartfelt outpourings of this brainy, driven, hypersensitive, self-conscious introvert deserve to be standards, but still aren’t. Music Review: Jason Robert Brown at 54 Below 2012-09-13T21:56:24Z She saw that play out during the Bill Clinton scandal when men became self-conscious about being alone with women in the office. How Nell Scovell survived male-dominated TV writers' rooms 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z In this version, embodied by the willowy Emily Davis, she often talks contemporary girl talk, sounding sulky, self-conscious and awesomely hyperbolic. Theater Review: ‘Seagull (Thinking of You),’ at New Ohio Theater 2013-01-16T22:35:06Z He added, “If you do get a little self-conscious, it opens up so many weak spots and helps you think.” Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z I grew self-conscious in a way I never was before – especially in London. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z Will artists who base their work on documentary sources be more self-conscious going forward? ArtsBeat: Public Theater Artistic Director Says 'Our Audience Was Misled' by Daisey 2012-03-23T16:19:01Z The thing about self-conscious hardness in music is that it often puts attack before tone. ‘Hardcore Activity in Progress’ Batters the Knockdown Center 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z It owed something to goth and something to punk and skater culture, with luminous pops of color adding more than a hint of self-conscious kitsch. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In the strangely similar animated kiddie comedies “Despicable Me” and “Megamind” the heroes and villains are self-conscious role players, and the villains are actually nice as well as more interesting than their occasional square-jawed nemeses. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z Neither the full horror nor the absurdity of Nelly’s situation registers, partly because the self-conscious genre touches keep her story at a distance. Review: ‘Phoenix’ Shows Rebirth and a Ruse in Postwar Germany 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z It is a self-conscious effort by the DIA to reintroduce itself to the larger art world, and reassert its presence as a vibrant institution after years of struggle and near-death experiences. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It looks so sad, so boring, so scary, and the people who live there tend to be so weird and self-conscious. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This postmodern approach to modernism leads to some self-conscious nonsense. The Grill Is Confident, Theatrical, Sharp and New Yorky 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z This is a show that's always been very self-conscious about how lowbrow it was. "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z Even on the music video show, the self-conscious satire was already apparent. Max Headroom, Original Talking Head, on DVD 2010-08-07T02:20:00Z “I am so self-conscious, I can’t even point a cellphone at you,” she said. A Photographer Whose Subject Is Everyday Life 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Yet more intriguing than the proliferation of the word “authentic” is the self-conscious way in which it’s now being used. Cultural Studies: For Only the Authentic ? Cultural Studies 2011-09-09T21:41:28Z Gone are the self-conscious commentary and postmodern pyrotechnics of “Genius.” Books of The Times: Dave Eggers’s New Novel, ‘A Hologram for the King’ 2012-06-13T21:40:56Z Any opportunity to engage clearly and candidly with your child is positive, but sometimes kids are more self-conscious than their parents. Watching edgier TV with your kids during the pandemic? You’re not alone. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a self-conscious project that, somehow, never affects the directness of the songs. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z Now they often seem aggressively democratic and demographically self-conscious, with displays that can be as self-critical as they were once celebratory. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z Jaden's performance in "The Karate Kid" wasn't just smooth and professional; it was considerably less self-conscious than anything Nicolas Cage has done in years. Will Smith's child labor question 2010-10-19T21:15:00Z While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z And I became very self-conscious about my knowledge and nuanced sense of what is happening in the world, politically. Marc Maron Discusses his Podcast Interview With President Obama 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z From the first scene it hits the ground running; buzzing with the same neurotic, self-conscious energy that is eroding the happiness of its lead characters. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z Maybe the silver lining to this madness was that it forced me to become a self-conscious parent. Motherlode Blog: The Preschool Parent Interview: An Elevator Pitch for My 2-Year-Old 2014-02-25T14:31:12Z A one-off gag aimed at Tom Cruise's "Top Gun," a clever use of kids' action figures, and actress Rachel Jackson's mad and masterful manipulation of a hand puppet add up to delightfully self-conscious comedy. Part two of 'Team of Heroes' is doubly fun 2012-04-26T20:12:13Z How McEnroe winds up being the omniscient voice in a present-day story about a self-conscious, Indian American high school sophomore is not as odd as it might seem. Review | Mindy Kaling’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ is breezy, cheerful and not as good as it ought to be 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z “I was — and still am — quite self-conscious about my writing.” It’s the Movie Hit of the Summer: Why ‘The Kissing Booth’ Clicked 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z And De Oliveira's calculations are easy to follow, as he usually provides an extended, self-conscious section of dialogue that spells out the philosophical underpinnings of his characters' actions. At 101, Portuguese director gets benefit of doubt 2010-05-14T07:07:00Z I would think it be awkward for actors you’re playing opposite who know you are a director—do they start to become self-conscious or worry they are being double-teamed? Mark Duplass Is the Hardest Working Man in Hollywood 2012-06-14T10:00:41Z The Guardian called it an "indulgent, self-conscious film about acting, memory and the persistence of the past." Alain Resnais revisits classic Greek legend at Cannes 2012-05-21T16:54:01Z He says he’s so self-conscious that he can’t bring himself to watch it. ESPN takes a gulp of competitive eater Kobayashi in new film 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The film’s blend of curatorial nostalgia and dystopian prophecy captured a mood of self-conscious melancholy in its moment and set a tone of melancholy self-consciousness that has endured ever since. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z What Scott delivers in “Alien: Covenant” is the simulacrum of seriousness without the sense of self-conscious silliness, a grim earnestness that’s reinforced by a thudding, grandiose aesthetic that utterly lacks originality. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z As a filmmaker, Alexandrowicz is self-conscious, almost as a matter of principle. ‘The Law in These Parts’ explores justice in Israel’s occupied territories 2013-01-17T22:18:12Z Robert is adrift, his gruffness a self-conscious front for frustration and zero self-esteem. Minimalist drama "Here and There" right on target 2010-05-15T01:32:00Z Of course, the chapter could also become a subject of play, well beyond the self-conscious mentions in eighteenth-century novels. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z The only problem is that Richard, self-conscious about his sometimes shuffling gait, doesn’t dance. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z His challenge, said Mr. Spinella, would be to reveal a “real” Warhol inside a creator so controlled and self-conscious that he was always playing some kind of part. Eavesdropping on Warhol and Capote 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z That’s of a piece with this very publication’s official review, in which writer Lucy Mangan dinged the pilot episode as “too cool and self-conscious for its own good”. Why I love the shameless, gory, Nazi-killing catharsis of Amazon's Hunters 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “My experience is that most directors who lead with ego are not so secretly very insecure or self-conscious,” Morrison said. Wakanda for Oscar? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z At times, the Asian allusions — mainly jewelry, rich patches of embroidery and the models’ red mouths — were so cautiously offered as to seem self-conscious. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Review: Tech Pushes Tradition Into the 21st Century 2011-02-18T02:01:11Z The self-conscious orotundity of his speech is emphatic but not overdone: he is gullible, not absurd. Othello – review 2013-04-27T23:07:10Z Perhaps, working with a new orchestra less freighted by history than the Berliners, Rattle felt less self-conscious. LSO/Rattle ? review 2011-03-08T18:31:09Z His sense of satire is too mischievous and his absorption of influences too overt and self-conscious. BAMcinemaFest Opts to Be Unlikable and Thought-Provoking 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z About himself, he once said: “I was so self-conscious, every time football players went into a huddle; I thought they were talking about me.” Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Jokes, quips and asides land with neat efficiency, always off-the-cuff, never self-satisfied or self-conscious. Plot Twist: Your Big Secret Crush Is Also Your Housemate 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Important too is Byrne’s vaguely folksy if entirely self-conscious presence, and how this once and future art-school kid continues to vibe more like Mister Rogers than a veteran rock star. ‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Review: Opening a Wide, Wonderful World 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Even the show’s theme song was a self-conscious joke: Garry Shandling, who parodied TV’s conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Begum was reclusive and self-conscious about her looks and refused to pose for photographs. Legendary Indian singer Shamshad Begum dies at 94 2013-04-24T10:49:08Z She’s flawed, unsure of herself and incredibly self-conscious about her body. Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Kadota, 43, who is Japanese American, said she felt “self-conscious and slightly apologetic” during a recent performance of a Brahms string quintet, because four of the five players were women of Asian descent. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Mulan is no longer the self-conscious teenager who disappoints her parents by failing to become the ideal wife, before her fierce and beautiful transformation into the woman she wants to be. The Mulan trailer is a dismal sign Disney is bowing to China's anti-democratic agenda | Jingan Young 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But the release that year of his second, starry “St. Matthew Passion” betrayed him, retreating to a self-conscious heft that its predecessor had lacked — to a style closer to the kind he had once deplored. Playing Bach, Was He a Pioneer or a Reactionary? 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z “They were brave men, without being excessively reckless or self-conscious about it.” Ward Just, 84, Dies; Ex-Journalist Found Larger Truths in Fiction 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z The one time that the movie puts on its deeply serious face is when it addresses race, which it navigates with self-conscious awkwardness culminating in a clunkily handled showdown between Sally and Jennifer. ‘Misbehaviour’ Review: Pretty Women, Some Pretty Angry 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But the recent evolution brings a human scale and an appealing American idealism to spaces where self-conscious and overbearing grandeur have held sway for too long. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z When the piece had its premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center last summer, it was played by all five groups, and it was a self-conscious event, and I questioned its effectiveness. John Luther Adam’s ‘Sila’ finds its breath at Meridian Hill Park 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z “It was something I was really self-conscious about because people think that people with a Birmingham accent are quite stupid,” she says. The rise of ‘accent softening’: why more and more people are changing their voices 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z They created a series of self-conscious, almost witty, riffs on nudes. Encounters : Shannon Plumb, A Brooklyn Life On the Big Screen 2013-08-28T23:14:51Z Nearly everyone onscreen is white, which the movie deals with in the way that the Oscars often do, by offering up a few self-conscious jokes. ‘The Hunt’ Review: The Culture War, With Heavy Casualties 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z "We do operate in a culture where men, by and large, talk about their feelings less. They're self-conscious about talking about weakness, there's this male sense of 'shrug and get on with stuff'." Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Although Johnson spent a good portion of his career as a wrestler wearing Speedos, he admitted that with crowds and paparazzi both watching during the film shoots, he felt self-conscious of his body. 'Baywatch' returns, jiggles and all 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Of course it tends to be humorless, or at least very self-conscious about humor, because underlying the liberal impulse is a desire to expand ideas of inclusion, sympathy and human understanding. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z I'm not too self-conscious about appearing on TV, either. What I see in the mirror: Jeremy Vine 2012-08-03T21:59:15Z Photograph: courtesy of the artist Victor Sloan's photographs approach this psychic territory in a much more self-conscious way. Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography by Colin Graham – review 2013-06-08T14:30:01Z Douglas’ jokes made him seem nervous and self-conscious about being identified with a gay character, the opposite of the empathetic spirit he brought to the role. Bad Deeds Don’t Ruin Great Art 2014-01-13T17:16:04Z If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious. Yorgos Lanthimos Narrates a Scene From ‘The Lobster’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That period of time when you're not self-conscious is sped up. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z All of those ingredients matter a great deal, but it is also true that some people are born self-conscious and some people become that way, while others never do. Margo Jefferson’s New Memoir Experiments With the Form in Startling Ways 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z And in this case, the message was both self-conscious and artless. Perspective | Congress’s kente cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Here is the M.F.A. program becoming self-conscious, displaying both impatience with and anxiety over the criterion of authenticity. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z He was a prolific novelist, playwright, short-story writer, poet and essayist whose fiction was much influenced by the self-conscious styles of Laurence Sterne and Xavier de Maistre. The Alienist by Machado de Assis – review 2012-12-23T00:10:26Z The way these models talked about the perks of their job made me wonder why nude modeling wasn’t a therapeutic requirement for anyone who’s ever felt self-conscious, self-critical or just plain uninspired. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z A small crowd followed attentively; a little off to the side, one middle-aged woman accompanied the music with self-conscious but precisely executed dance steps. Review: Make Music New York Teaches Buildings How to Sing 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z After a lengthy scene, Eric lures him off the train, with Steve too curious and frightened, or maybe just too self-conscious, to bring himself to run away. Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z There's less self-conscious showboating here, but a lot worth boasting about. The Stones Come Back From Exile--Again 2010-05-07T20:19:00Z "Marvel were terrified about it sounding too solemn or too ornate or too self-conscious," he says. Big Thor 2011-04-26T07:24:15Z Beneath the film’s Old-Hollywood gleam and self-conscious sniping, serious questions are raised, only to lie fallow. ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: Fight Flub 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z "Everyone was a musician there and nobody had the self-conscious streak we seem to have here in Britain." Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z I stepped down on to the platform feeling agonisingly self-conscious. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Then I got self-conscious, like it came across that I didn’t care about getting the job. The God of ‘SNL’ Will See You Now 2013-08-22T11:53:25Z Certainly, it doesn’t come across as a self-conscious revisionist western, an often meaningless category that implies that genres remain static or, worse, that latter-day westerns are more complex than earlier ones. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Iger is self-conscious about his memoir, confiding that “it feels to me a bit like a big ego trip.” The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z "A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired. In all the rooms I'm working in now, people are much more self-conscious about that." Brian Wilson, Bonnie McKee and others react to 'Blurred Lines' verdict 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z He and his companions are acutely self-conscious about their societal status, and in conversation, they are quick to offer observations, almost non sequiturs, about prominent politicians, replete with sexist and racist language. Review: ‘The Other Side,’ a Harrowing Visit With People on the Margins 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mischievous misbehavior, hope beyond hope, belief in the impossible: Trainor, one of pop’s least self-conscious stars, focuses on them the other 364 days, too. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Maggie Brodnick says that the entire process has given a girl who was once self-conscious about her breasts and dressed modestly a completely new mind-set. Can cancer ever be funny? Comedian Caitlin Brodnick thinks so. 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The niece, who seems to be a pre-teen, adopts her uncle’s tilt of head, but she is worlds away from him in terms of naturalness; she is so aptly self-conscious. ‘The Lion King’ always makes me cry The battle between good and evil rages on in some quarters, but mostly in self-conscious, self-parodic form. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z Yes, I believe that many times, those left behind after massive job cuts feel guilty and self-conscious. Perspective | Ask Amy: Should she weigh in about sister’s obesity? 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z I thought he was going to be more self-conscious than he was, and I'm happy he wasn't. "American Idol's" David Archuleta on the new season 2011-01-29T00:29:56Z And yet in the stylized, self-conscious world of “Fat Ham,” the characters have the agency to create change. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Neither of us was recognised on the street; nor did we think of ourselves in any self-conscious way as being out there. Joan Bakewell: 'Women have a different way of being thick-skinned' 2010-04-04T20:00:00Z But Mr. Cooper isn’t the only CNN correspondent with a self-conscious taste for form-fitting charcoal T-shirts, accessorized with a tiny microphone clipped at the neck. 2010-01-22T00:02:00Z I'm sure the fact that I'd been in Sleeper meant my manuscript was plucked off the slush pile and read, but I felt very self-conscious about only being signed on the back of past glories. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z There is laxness in the air, self-conscious charm, a pensive mood of: What should come next? Review: ‘The Complete Stories,’ by Flannery O’Connor 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z From this auspicious example in which robots are created to serve as factory workers of optimal efficiency, they are then quickly adapted into emotionless soldiers, all while becoming self-conscious. "Blade Runner" and the lesson Roy Batty’s Replicant rebellion has to teach us 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Then I started feeling self-conscious and several minutes later, asked my least-nice question, about the tabloid stories featuring anonymous complaints that she isn’t always kind to those she works with. Ellen DeGeneres Is Not as Nice as You Think 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z New musicals on Broadway today are mostly audience-pleasing machines manufactured from cultural spare parts: a movie screenplay, a rock songbook, the self-conscious attitudinizing of late-night comedy. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z I’m so tired of people acting like comedies and action movies are somehow less “excellent”, or artistic, or good, than self-conscious dramas full of Serious Actors doing their Serious Acting. Why Black Panther should win the 2019 best picture Oscar 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Its long, torturous run of Broadway previews has been — as a self-conscious new song lyric puts it — “a $65 million circus tragedy.” music: Playing UpThe MusicIn That Musical 2011-06-10T21:10:17Z Aiming somewhere between Coen brothers territory and "Twin Peaks" and landing awkwardly in the realm of self-conscious neo-noir, "Cut Bank" is filled with small-town quirkiness and propelled by a rising body count. Quirky 'Cut Bank' spins into a dark spiral toward nothing 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The images include one of Macmillan looking acutely self-conscious draped in a chieftain's leopard skin, with his wife jostled by a rowdy, cheerful crowd in a marketplace. Out of Africa: National Archives seeks public help to identify empire-era pics 2011-02-10T01:00:01Z Still, here and throughout, the effect is one of self-conscious absurdity and affectionate play. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z And even when it comes to the figures who were canonized long ago, “Shake It Up” opts for a refreshing, if perhaps self-conscious, degree of surprise. The Trouble with Building a Rock-Writing Canon 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z She even appears in a drolly self-conscious question and answer session, in English, with the audience. Bodies in Pain, Protest and Resistance 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z There are signs of immaturity in its publicity material; the dancers look more posey, self-conscious and sly in photographs and video than they do onstage. Dance Review: A. O. Collective?s ?90 Ways to Wake From Drowning? 2010-08-01T22:25:00Z Stanislavski felt the company's acting – his own as much that of his fellow players – remained painfully self-conscious and imitative; it lacked the pure "truth" he conceived of as the prime object of the actor's art. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z “This Is the End” is intended as a hip, cleverly self-conscious, de facto sequel to the basest humor you can find in the earlier, collective work of these collaborators. ‘This Is the End’: Celebrity party goes down in flames 2013-06-11T16:52:35Z Neither premise made the show bad, per se, but both felt like a self-conscious attempt to merge old-school sitcom premises with post-Simpsons crassness and irony. After Two and a Half Men, Chuck Lorre Still Runs CBS 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z As a nation, we have also become less self-conscious about solo dining. Table for one: how eating alone is radically changing our diets 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Throughout, Ms. Chehab showed footage to her mother, against advice she had received that it might make Ms. Khodr self-conscious about the camera. Sometimes, Making a Documentary Can Take Years (and Years and Years…) 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z He said his approach isn't like the more self-conscious "The Dark Knight," but compared it to "a war movie." After long wait, Whedon brings 'Cabin' to SXSW 2012-03-10T19:52:08Z Ridiculously precocious and cripplingly self-conscious, he’s contending with depression and addiction largely outside the attention of his parents, who are too baffled by their own crossroads. Review | Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads’ represents a marked evolution in a dazzling career 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z In other words, it is not self-conscious knowingness that drives “Rango” but rather a quirky and sincere enthusiasm for all the strange stuff that has piled up in the filmmakers’ heads over the years. | 'Rango': There?s a New Sheriff in Town, and He?s a Rootin?-Tootin? Reptile 2011-03-03T23:01:04Z Others, like the members of Dr. King’s inner circle who wrote memoirs about the assassination, are more self-conscious in their efforts to shape history. Books of The Times: Hampton Sides?s ?Hellhound on His Trail? Traces Martin Luther King Jr.?s Killer 2010-04-21T22:24:00Z I’ve known him now for quite some time and we’re so comfortable with each other that I wasn’t self-conscious at all. Mindy Kaling: I Wish Every Actress Could Have a Sex Scene With Chris Messina 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Bock has built on, and intensified, the silent-movie style, imbuing it with occasional self-conscious humor. Art in Review: JOHN BOCK: ?In the Shadow of the Maggot? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z Younger critics drew from both Sarris and Kael but now give their top accolades to directors with the most distinctive, assertive, self-conscious styles. Cooperation and creative versatility distinguish winning directors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z There’s a lot of meta going on there, but “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm” feels less like a self-conscious postmodern exercise than a blast of honesty. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A similar approach to the song was taken by the Happenings, whose hit version in 1967 had a fluency and lightness that is missing in this too self-conscious one. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z She was dressed in cigarette pants and a button-down shirt for a photo shoot, which still makes her self-conscious. Julia Roberts, in ‘Secret in Their Eyes,’ Turns Her Famous Smile to Grief 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Her retro construction is utterly self-conscious, identifying with her audience from a distance: “Look at you kids with your vintage music,” it begins. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z “I’m just super self-conscious about the way that I looked,” Abdelhamid said, describing life as a “chubby” kid who was teased by friends on his soccer team and pestered by his parents about his weight. For Saint Levant, Sexy Music Is Personal, and Political 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In those days, before the Internet niche-ification of culture and the ridiculously accelerated spin cycle of fame, he was the avatar of the celebrity age, at once a self-conscious and self-destructive pursuant of publicity. Books of The Times: ‘Untouchable,’ Michael Jackson’s Life, by Randall Sullivan 2012-11-12T21:52:09Z And, she said, he was always appreciative of his gift: “He used to say, ‘It’s easy to write things that are so self-conscious that they become pretentious, that have a lot of noise. Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z Typical of the self-conscious dialogue: "I'm living in a movie where I get all the best lines." Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival turns 16 2011-10-05T22:47:06Z Their sheaves of paper made the other characters uneasy, and made me feel strangely self-conscious too. Drawing conclusions: the fine line between theatre and art 2011-02-16T17:28:53Z The biggest work in Gardner's programme was Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, a performance whose almost self-conscious restraint failed to solve the enigma of the finale. Proms 42 & 43: BBCSO/Gardner; St John Passion 2010-08-18T11:03:00Z The dancers, with thin voices and self-conscious delivery, taunt one another with sarcasm, all the while pulling, poking and prodding one another’s bodies. Dance Review: Tiffany Mills Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-04T22:11:54Z Just like its Oslo sibling, Fuglen metamorphoses from a caffeine-fueled hangout into a cocktail bar, attracting a beautiful and self-conscious crowd. An Unassuming Tokyo Enclave Is Having Its Moment 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z However, the café is packed with workers, and he's self-conscious. Netflix's "Samurai Gourmet" has the pleasure-seeking, main character energy I want for the summer 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Collins conveys fortitude and resilience, along with comic flair, while Claflin channels Hugh Grant, the stammering sincerity turning into self-conscious shtick just as it did for Grant. 'Love, Rosie' flashes some charm amid a flimsy rom-com tale 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z You’ve argued that it’s really about artifice and a self-conscious kind of persona and theatricality. The Kanye-Bowie connection: “It’s songs about fame and about decadence, about this dissolute life and how you’re quite unhappy” 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He was self-conscious about this and I told him that we had the rest of our lives to figure it out. I love my husband – but his sexual limitations are blighting our marriage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z There is a self-conscious playfulness to a movement that inspires women to identify with she-wolves constructed from discarded bones or brand themselves witches on social media despite an illiteracy with spellcraft. The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Galperin used to be so self-conscious about the lesion on her forehead that she would Photoshop it out of pictures. Making Age Spots a Thing of the Past 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Not that this novel will be as universally appealing as those of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams; it’s a little too esoteric for that, a little too Silicon Valley-specific and self-conscious. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Field Music No room for self-conscious angst here. Field Music 2010-06-17T11:14:00Z While the word “feminism” is never uttered in this movie, “Jane B. par Agnès V.” is an exemplary feminist work, one in which two female artists, self-aware but hardly self-conscious, create beauty by exchanging notes. Review: ‘Jane B. par Agnès V.’ Unites Director and Subject 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z For many men, it makes them self-conscious and tongue-tied: Will a female therapist be strong enough? Massage’s First Issue: Man or Woman Therapist? 2012-09-15T00:57:13Z The result looks a bit like television, though it isn't bad: sparky, boisterous, cynical, a little self-conscious but more grownup and literate than most new British movies. Mother's Milk – review 2012-11-08T22:20:01Z For months Devi can’t move on her own and afterward is self-conscious of how people stare at her when she’s back on her feet. Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z As a title, How to Do Nothing sounds parodic – I felt a bit self-conscious reading it on the train. Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: ‘It's a reminder that you're alive’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But for people like me — self-conscious rap fans from the suburbs, looking for something arty and heart-y — Tribe is pretty much hip-hop 101. The new A Tribe Called Quest documentary, and their "worst" album 2011-07-30T01:46:04Z I’ve always played it safe, traditional – to an almost self-conscious degree. I was a music snob, until I fell for One Direction 2012-10-25T17:33:00Z Yet Wallace was tentative and self-conscious in describing these rebels of sincerity. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z The Doctors Body issues about which women are self-conscious. Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Rookie Blue' on ABC 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But I would be lying if I didn't say that it makes you more self-conscious and it affects the way you do things. The Paisley Underground: an oral history of Los Angeles's 1980s psychedelic explosion 2013-05-16T17:00:00Z "The reading here of a passionate yet complex character feels self-conscious bordering on awkward, even descending into caricature at times," it added. Nelson Mandela's life on screen 2013-12-06T12:31:26Z You become aware of the body playing the steps like piano keys, of the exact intervals of this upward progression, of your own speed and motion and self-conscious hesitation. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Some of the early files chronicle Mr. Rushdie’s self-conscious analysis of how computers affected his work. Emory University Saves Rushdie?s Digital Data 2010-03-15T22:06:00Z ‘Of course, it’s better for the children for a mother to do these things’ was one comment I remember, delivered with a short, self-conscious, judgmental laugh. Motherlode: Daddy Discrimination 2011-01-28T21:00:39Z “I don’t want you to say that!” she said with an embarrassed smile and a self-conscious laugh during the interview. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel is trying to hold together a party that Donald Trump might want to tear up 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z But this play, its author’s first, often feels as awkward and self-conscious as its closeted 1950s lovers. 2010-02-17T03:22:00Z And in Kate’s agitated, self-conscious but self-aware account — delivered by Ms. Wyatt in a captivating performance, directed by Joe Murphy — we see a Britain in the throes of seething ethnic strife. | Brits Off Broadway: Brits Off Broadway Two Shows at 59E59 - Review 2011-11-15T22:13:25Z Trump is a symbol of whiteness as self-conscious political power, in a way that none of those 43 other dudes even approaches — not even Ronald Reagan, the proto-Trump and whitest of all previous presidents. America’s first white president 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z At the age of 54, Noé still has the self-conscious air of a disreputable young thug. Gaspar Noé: 'Six people walked out of Climax? No! I usually have 25%' 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z All of these are astonishing presentations, confessions, performances — often self-conscious and, perhaps, occasionally honest. Exhibition Review: Diarists Share Tales ? True or Not ? of Lives Richly Lived 2011-01-21T19:10:36Z By massing colours into abstract blocks rather than striving after mere mimesis, the artist offers a self-conscious commentary on the possibilities and limits of watercolour. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z But, for a band as ahead of the curve as Klaxons seemed to be in 2007, avoiding a trend is just as self-conscious as following one. Forward-thinking Klaxons take one step back with Flashover 2010-06-04T23:07:00Z The writing was unquestionably atmospheric, but self-conscious and poetically overcooked. Review | Adventure seekers — and a few ghosts — make a dangerous trip up a mountain in ‘Mysterium’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Forging an indie-rock career is an uncharted, self-conscious path at the best of times, navigating revelation and obfuscation, rawness and craftsmanship, instincts and commercial objectives. Bartees Strange Ponders Success in Dire Times 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Cathy is polite and self-conscious, in the way white women of her time and class often were with the black people who worked for them. Theater Review: ‘Far From Heaven,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-06-03T02:00:01Z She was self-conscious about being the only “young brown girl in the Third Tier Box” when she started attending the Symphony a decade ago. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z At other times, however, it becomes tediously self-conscious, laden with superfluous details, more stream of consciousness than story. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z She went to learn stage movement at the opera school, where she became more self-conscious than ever about her height, her prominent chin and her strong physique. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z “La La Land” is simultaneously a self-conscious throwback and a forward-looking gamble. Cinema Is Dead? Telluride Says Not Yet 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Good references will cover general capacity to understand a rule, grasp the wider world, feel self-conscious, etc. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it normal for a 2-year-old to be biting and hitting? 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z But there are no self-conscious or overly dramatic shadows. Perspective | Vogue can make anyone look glamorous, including Pete Buttigieg 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Instead three other victims turn up, trying to not look self-conscious in their onesies. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Less self-conscious about my dancing than singing, I give 110 percent here. You can dance, you can jive — at Stockholm’s kitschy ABBA museum 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z When he first arrived at Goldsmiths in the second year he was coming into a place that was already very cool and self-conscious. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z The indirect director Topics: , , Film, Directors, Careers, Beginning a sentence with “I” makes me self-conscious. The indirect director 2012-12-06T01:00:00Z Projecting intensely self-conscious states of mind, Mr. McCarthy’s works are busily infectious. ‘Mirror Cells’ Asks: What Lights Up the Brain? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Most young Americans in 1964 did not yet see themselves as belonging to a distinctive or self-conscious generation. Everything you know about the 1960s is wrong 2012-11-24T14:00:00Z His young actors, all students, deliver dialogue between characters while facing down their audience, with a confrontational and self-conscious edge. Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z Be nervous and self-conscious of it and people will think there is something to be self-conscious of. So many gay relationships start in fiery love – in my middle 60s is something else possible? | Leading questions 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But Mr. Love’s shifts between dialect and lyricism are more self-conscious, his characterizations shallower. Review: ‘Sugar in Our Wounds’ May Make You Cry About the Past, and the Present 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Readers of earlier installments of Frank’s story always knew him as an emotionally cautious fellow: guarded, self-conscious, willfully detached. Richard Ford’s Hero Returns in ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’ 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z Some reviewers found Mr. Cox’s films overly introspective and self-conscious, but those who championed his work did so ardently. Paul Cox, Independent Filmmaker Who Explored Postmodern Life, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z If that is buried deep in the self-conscious — whether it is real or imagined — that someone wants to erase your existence, they respond with overcompensation: I am here, I exist. "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z So what to play in this self-conscious scenario that won't make your prospective partner recoil in horror? Seduction playlist: get jiggy with these tracks 2012-11-09T13:15:00Z Her voice is so forcefully assured you can miss that much of her humor is about being lonely, self-conscious or bad at sex. Amy Schumer’s Comedy Central Show, From the Inside 2013-04-18T12:00:01Z Mr. Baumbach abruptly, and with a subtle display of self-conscious wit, reveals “Greenberg” to have been a romantic comedy all along. Movie Review | 'Greenberg': Ben Stiller as a Slacker in Noah Baumbach?s Work 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z But it is nice to get a little bit loud and expressive and volatile, not to censor yourself, to live fully and without being self-conscious in any way. "You want a big mountain to climb": "The Bear" star on why Cousin Richie is so satisfying to play 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z If this is a highly self-conscious way for Ms. Rebeck to smuggle in a feminist message to Broadway audiences, it’s so compromised as to be almost meaningless. Critic?s Notebook: Women Playwrights and Gender Stereotypes on Broadway 2011-12-24T01:47:25Z Three years after its release, she played a solo set on MTV “Unplugged” that was marked by self-conscious candor, hoarse vocals, and an uneven acoustic guitar. What We Still Need from Lauryn Hill and Her "Miseducation" 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Shore is a huge Holmes fan – House and his most trusted sidekick Wilson are a self-conscious homage to Holmes and Watson. House: the science of drama 2010-10-05T05:59:00Z I am not a real fan of games, I get incredibly self-conscious and I am not very good at most of them. Family games not much fun for in-law 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “I was so self-conscious about the nanny and the housekeeper that I didn’t want them to hear me screaming in the living room,” Kanye said. Into the Wild With Kanye West 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “In Time” is closer to “Gattaca” and plays like something of a self-conscious, often clever amendment to that earlier film. | 'In Time': ?In Time,? SciFi Film With Justin Timberlake - Review 2011-10-27T22:54:40Z But too many of these vignettes are heavy-handed and offered with a self-conscious stage presence that undercuts the production’s promise of time travel. | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking': Matthew Earnest?s ?Wanderlust? at Ice Factory Festival 2010-07-15T23:26:00Z He is an ardently self-conscious artist who wants to let us in on his entire act. ‘Production Line of Happiness’ Is a ‘Making Of’ Special 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z And assuming the invitations have gone out already, a late cancellation might make your friend feel even more self-conscious. Social Q?s: How to Choreograph the End of a Call 2011-03-10T19:55:58Z Indeed, in the course of Thursday evening Yung Lean and his crew seemed self-conscious about smiling, occasionally catching themselves and reverting to gloomy looks when they realized an onlooker was watching. Yung Lean, King of the Sad Boys 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z But for all the self-conscious silliness of the endeavor, last year’s winners see something more exalted in it. Peeps Dioramas and Their Surprisingly Long Prehistory 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Dominik is a clever hand at genre pastiche, and the result is a movie, like “The Assassination of Jesse James,” that is sapped of vitality by its own self-conscious, curatorial fastidiousness. Movie Review: ‘Killing Them Softly,’ With Brad Pitt, From Andrew Dominik 2012-11-29T16:13:01Z Soprano Marina Poplavskaya's fondness for sculpted phrasing was a bit too self-conscious in this music. Prom 13: Verdi Requiem - review 2011-07-25T10:04:41Z This is, in many respects, no-frills Liszt, very masculine and carefully steering clear of self-conscious sentiment or souped-up passion. Liszt: Ann?es de P?lerinage ? review 2011-04-07T21:15:00Z At this late date any English country house novel, however formally traditional, must be highly self-conscious if only by default, and like The Stranger’s Child, is very aware of itself as a second-order fiction. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z He also refers to his cohorts in the French New Wave to suggest that they share this artistic approach of self-conscious historicism. “The Image Book,” Reviewed: Jean-Luc Godard Confronts Cinema’s Depiction of the Arab World 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z It was nice being on the beach and not feeling self-conscious about his body. ‘Get shredded in six weeks!’ The problem with extreme male body transformations 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Both are self-conscious, but after Chloe says "let's bumble together," romance takes its course. Michel Gondry's 'Mood Indigo' is wildly inventive 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “The Monster” is cleverly pitched somewhere in between, with the kind of generous splatters that evoke the good old nasty days of grindhouse horror and enough sleek, self-conscious moves for festival play dates. Review: Watch the Road, and the Driver, Too, in ‘The Monster’ 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Arguably, it's a bit too cool for school sometimes, and it is self-conscious. Submarine ? review 2011-03-17T15:00:01Z It’s as if directors—especially the reboot generation—have finally become self-conscious about C.G.I.; Hollywood’s Turn Against Digital Effects 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Despite its incendiary subject, in performance it can feel stiffly self-conscious, with its quaint Puritan locutions and nomenclature. ‘The Crucible,’ by Arthur Miller, Plays at the Old Vic 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z This is climate change nobody should believe in, and it’s made us all weirdly self-conscious about satire. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise. Review: ‘Full House’ Sequel Is a Forced March Down Memory Lane 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z But Mr. Baltrop’s a classicist too, just a less self-conscious one. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He is driven by a self-conscious fear that he is a fraud. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z And the one thing The Stooges never were in their heyday was self-conscious or knowing. Iggy and the Stooges: Ready to Die – review 2013-04-25T14:29:01Z Derek Cianfrance's film is a sombre, painful portrait of a toxic marriage, often touching and sometimes moving, though occasionally contrived and self-conscious in its effects. Blue Valentine ? review 2011-01-13T15:00:00Z I’m always self-conscious, as we all are, to qualify myself professionally upon introduction. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Yet he also tells us that it will be highly intelligent, beautifully written, splendidly self-conscious and omni-referential. Lethal weapons: Shane Black's pulp fiction is still the best action around 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Mad is an especially unfortunate font of homespun wisdom, and when she finally delivers a shattering monologue, the effect is lost through its self-conscious staging. Review: In ‘The Keeping Room,’ 3 Women Under Siege in the Civil War 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Now I'm self-conscious, and my stuffy law firm hosts a dinner dance — should I avoid the dance floor? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When they stole their son’s identity, they told you who they are 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s a joy, for instance, to watch him suggest Beau’s self-conscious bashfulness after his first night with Rufus. Review: ‘Gently Down the Stream,’ a Romance and a Gay History Tour 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z There’s a weird intersection here of two very self-conscious artistic postures, twee-ness and willful distancing. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z Elmosnino is very good at showing how sensitive Gainsbourg is about his looks, how self-conscious and even vain he is: fragile, sensitive, defiant. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z Robbins, both a micro and macro choreographer, was able to show the body’s expressiveness without self-conscious touches, while taking care that every bit of the stage served a purpose — even the negative space. Jerome Robbins: You’re Missed in This ‘West Side Story,’ Daddy-o 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z David Thorpe: I’ve been self-conscious about my voice my whole life. This Guy Just Wants to Know If He Sounds Gay 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Like their predecessors, all too many post-Miley teenage girls become anxious, self-conscious and insecure. With The Last Song, Miley Cyrus leaves her fans to their fate 2010-05-04T09:00:00Z We're programmed, as we get older, to feel self-conscious about it, to not feel our bodies any more. Azari & III: Toronto's dark divas of dance 2011-07-21T21:45:01Z Being a foreigner, people gather round; they become self-conscious around the camera. US photographer Steve McCurry: Go with the flow 2010-06-28T20:31:00Z Though the tale, based on a novel by Harold Frederic, remains relevant to our time, the film is too self-conscious and tedious for the message it delivers. Movie Review: In ‘Copperhead,’ Opposing the Civil War Brings Trouble 2013-07-18T22:01:34Z JamesMcCreet was in no doubt: His 'intelligence' is that of the undergrad who believes statements have to be dressed up in multi-syllabic, semi-arcane vocabulary and delivered with a self-conscious, arch glibness. All-male Egyptian sitcom leaves women out of laughs 2013-06-18T14:15:00Z But it’s still unhelpful advice if you’re the kind of person, like me, for whom it just triggers a fusillade of self-conscious questions: am I savouring things enough? Will you regret later what you’re doing now? Don’t even think about it | Oliver Burkeman 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z More than once during a recent gallery and studio walkabout I had the sensation of being in a giant M.F.A. graduate show, with all the cautious, self-conscious formalism and too-tight ideas that implies. Art Review: Bushwick Open Studios 2012-06-07T23:04:04Z Rather, the film’s evident and self-conscious desire to tap into a reservoir of existing references and associations is a sign of its director’s obsession with other movies. Film: A Fresh Look Back at Jean-Luc Godard?s ?Breathless? 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z “The language was a bit self-conscious and overly lyrical,” she said over lunch at a restaurant on Chipping Campden’s main street. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Murphy and Lewis both made expertly crafted, excessively self-conscious pop songs designed to keep people dancing as they reluctantly forfeited their youth. Perspective | James Murphy is our Huey Lewis 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Screen International was less impressed, judging it "a self-conscious upmarket weird-out." Kylie Minogue at Cannes in bizarre 'Holy Motors' 2012-05-23T12:21:15Z The plot, which involves an all-the-way-to-the-top kidnapping conspiracy catering to the depravities of powerful men, is lurid and preposterous, an episode of “Law and Order SVU” amplified with self-conscious “Taxi Driver” overtones. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is a Melancholy Avenger in ‘You Were Never Really Here’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z At several points, the pilot contains self-conscious references to the all-American tradition of the gangster film. Review: ‘Queen of the South’ Oozes Violence and Excess 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z When he cuts from one seemingly disconnected image to the next, he calls attention to the film’s plasticity, a self-conscious engagement with the material being the pre-eminent attribute of modernist art. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z “I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so,” he said. BuzzFeed’s Eugene Lee Yang Mixes Humor With Social Commentary 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “Sometimes as women get older, they feel self-conscious about having no hair,” she said. Skin Deep: Brazilian Bikini Wax? In a New Trend in Hair Removal, Women Prefer the Natural Look 2014-01-29T20:42:14Z Almost buoyant, occasionally repetitive, surprised by himself at least as often as he surprised readers, this Heaney remained self-conscious, revisiting and answering earlier verse. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z During a dance exercise, he suddenly realized, he said, “how hilarious and clumsy we both are. And self-conscious. And tall.” Liev Schreiber, the Reluctant Rake 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z I felt a bit self-conscious carrying my Oscar around, but I soon found that he attracted the most amazing level of attention from people who must have seen it all before. Winner's diary 2011-02-28T16:48:07Z Everything unfolds in an atmosphere of self-conscious stagecraft and deliberately overwrought emotion. Movie Review: ‘Chicken With Plums,’ About Contemporary Iran 2012-08-16T21:53:48Z DiCaprio does fine work in Hoover’s rash marriage proposal to Helen; it shows the clumsiness of a young man who is self-conscious but not self-aware, and momentarily makes the monster almost endearing. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z By its not-that-surprising conclusion, “The Panopticon” has evolved from a self-conscious debut experiment into a deeply felt and genuinely affecting novel. Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z “It’s always funny to us how self-conscious she was on that first date,” Mr. Shih said. Getting Married Where It All Began 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z But boys are often self-conscious about reading books that might be considered to be “girly”. Gendered covers are failing young adult readers 2013-06-04T23:42:00Z The leads in “Call Me by Your Name” were self-conscious and soulful, but they also scanned as sweet and curious; theirs was the insufferability of youth. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z But whenever Zellweger caught herself telling me about these things for too long, she became self-conscious. Renée Zellweger Will Be Back in a Moment 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z I felt quite self-conscious about my metallic filling. Blind date: ‘I felt self-conscious about my filling’ 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z I’m way more self-conscious about it than I was with my son, so much so that I ask her if she wants to paint my nails. Motherlode Blog: Daughter to Dad: ‘Girlie’ Pajamas, Please 2013-06-14T20:03:49Z “Star Wars” was, if anything, an even more self-conscious throwback, a film student’s act of promiscuous homage, a hodgepodge of styles and allusions. ‘Star Wars,’ Elvis and Me 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z She made my sister, self-conscious and timid by nature, the referee. Speak up about a friend’s abusive relationship 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Not incidentally, a master of self-conscious theater is represented. Review: ‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Instead, she came across at times as self-conscious and a bit nervous. Chloë Sevigny Wants More. Lizzie Borden Is Helping With That. 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “True Detective” is back with a double-episode, third-season premiere Sunday night and a conspicuous, almost self-conscious attempt to resemble its former self. Review | Why does HBO still believe in the potential of ‘True Detective’? Search me. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “Coaches are self-conscious talking about it in front of swimmers,” Nelson said. Does Michael Phelps just hold it? 2012-08-01T18:05:00Z The show tightens up when at its most self-conscious, when the exercise of creating this “Perfectly Concocted Context” turns to clever navel-gazing. Enter the artist's Berlin studio — without leaving L.A. 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z “I’m at my most self-conscious when they’re watching,” Bee said of her kids. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The documentary, Kenigsberg added, is “poised unsatisfyingly between an explosive exposé and a self-conscious put-on.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Cold Case Hammarskjold’ 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Movies that are more subjective, self-conscious and artfully crafted, like “Middle of Nowhere” or Tanya Hamilton’s neglected near-masterpiece “Night Catches Us,” are definitely tougher sells. Will whites see a black indie film like “Middle of Nowhere”? 2012-10-11T18:25:00Z Bartók's stark First Piano Concerto, meanwhile, with its self-conscious avoidance of lyricism, is, in some respects, as ground-breaking a work as the Liszt. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z The music was allowed to speak for itself without the imposition of overly self-conscious interpretative detail. Paul Lewis ? review 2011-02-08T18:15:17Z “That’s one thing Anderson helped pioneer: the idea that everything was deeply self-conscious and deeply tailored.” How the Wes Anderson aesthetic took over the world 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Does that make birdsong music, or do we claim that category of organised noise purely for our self-conscious creations? Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z “I don’t feel self-conscious out here,” Musgraves said, leaning into a snug couch next to a Himalayan salt lamp. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z There are no clips from new films, no elaborate recreations of old ones, no self-conscious homages. Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2014: a big lineup at NWFF 2014-01-22T23:56:26Z Like many gay men, I’ve always been self-conscious about various parts of my body. My skinny arm complex 2012-12-16T01:00:00Z When it's too self-conscious, you don't get any real emotion. When Cat's Eyes met Ron Arad 2011-08-16T20:31:00Z They speak of their separate traumas in monologues peppered with rhyme, which sounds natural in O’Brien’s mouth, self-conscious in O’Connor’s. ‘Maz and Bricks’ Review: Marching for Rights, With Signs of Romance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z I’m just a little self-conscious when people are peeking out the corner of their eyes in the locker room.” Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z At its center is Hawke, who plays a self-conscious Macbeth growing more and more dispassionate and disoriented. Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z I hung back, self-conscious and a bit disappointed, leaving the older folks to their conversation. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z “Says it makes him self-conscious about his art.” A Novel Based on the Life of Peggy Guggenheim 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z I was always self-conscious about our first season and felt like it wasn’t good. ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ at 30: Still Talking Back to the Screen 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Auburn isn’t above tossing into the mix the occasional dig at that era’s self-conscious iconoclasm. The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z In other words, remaking the remake, making it self-conscious, is surely the last throw of the dice. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I want to ask her to stop, but don’t want to make her feel self-conscious about her body. Social Q?s: How to Be a Foul-Weather Friend 2011-06-02T21:06:35Z Duvall is as gummily charismatic as ever, Downey good casting - nothing if not a convincing tool, self-conscious smirk a neat fit for the part. The Judge review: jury in, gavel out on Robert Downey Jr courtroom drama 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But she is congenitally polite and, as she stared up at the storied Art Deco observatory in Griffith Park here, on an 1,100-foot summit of Mount Hollywood, maybe a tiny bit self-conscious. The Amy Adams Method 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Even now, Underwood says that occasionally — like when she’s on an award show stage in front of her peers — self-conscious thoughts float through her mind. Carrie Underwood is a superstar. So why does she still fly under the radar? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Unlike many recent self-conscious efforts to be inclusive, it wasn't prefixed with "The Big ..." Us and them is the cultural problem, not Pomp and Circumstance 2010-08-27T06:00:00Z It's not the only self-conscious reference to "The Wheel" in this episode, which is similarly concerned with themes of love, loss and family. 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z In a self-conscious touch that ultimately proves scattered, his and many other pieces of narration hot-potato from actor to actor as they crisscross the stage. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z But her sparse, ironic style lacks the self-conscious self-indulgence of Fermor’s prose, and is all the better for it. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z And she is charmingly and woefully self-conscious as a woman trapped in men’s clothing, shrinking from and luxuriating in the touch of Orsino. All Over London, Love Hurts 2011-02-23T10:27:47Z A rectangular frame onto which this scrap-metal pioneer welded a few objects — a triangle in the shape of a waving pennant, the heel of a pipe — is self-conscious and austere. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But in this book he wrestles with another kind of art — art that is deeply self-conscious, inward, sensitive and committed to extending a tradition of art as a sacred calling. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Events in the present and past continually mix in Maud’s mind, her memories triggered by objects or phrases in ways that are artful and a little too self-conscious. ‘Elizabeth Is Missing’ Review: Glenda Jackson’s Return to TV 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z All of this comes through with piercing vitality in Mr. Posner’s adaptation, which moves between fidelity to the original and spasms of self-conscious theatricality with the ease of a competitive skateboarder. ‘Stupid _______ Bird’ Returns to Woolly Mammoth Theater 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Matter-of-fact descriptive titles like “Colossus, Ankles Cross, Hand Hooks Heel, Finger Tips Press Bun,” by emphasizing their cheeky what-you-see-is-what-you-get quality, nudge them into the self-conscious realm of paintings about painting, too. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The man of living history plugged himself into the source of the self-conscious history of the cinema, the enduring influence of the French New Wave, and reconfigured his art once more, and decisively. Postscript: Manoel de Oliveira 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I would get too self-conscious, and that would be bad for me.” Marianne Faithfull, as Years Go By 2011-12-23T21:47:23Z It's self-conscious, but it doesn't feel fake, and situates him as the shambling butt of many of his best jokes. Jason Manford – review 2013-07-22T17:49:08Z “Put that on top of being self-conscious about being on camera and it’s a recipe for disaster.” Spoiler Alert: Who is the 'Vampire Hunter' at the End of Abraham Lincoln? 2012-06-25T10:45:19Z Some may find Mr. Icke’s production a case of style over substance, but it’s difficult to imagine so self-conscious a text divorced from an exercise in total theater. Review: ‘The Red Barn’ and ‘Blue Heart’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The manufactured beings called replicants are self-conscious, yet only one, the most sophisticated of them all, is self-aware. Thanks for nothing, Facebook: #FriendsDay is our latest reminder that curated selves are becoming “more real than real” 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The film offers a sort of impressionistic journalism, a self-conscious evocation of a place and time, a study in mentalities. Two Important Documentaries from Sundance 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Hitting 110 mph, I let out a self-conscious, “Dukes of Hazzard”-style “yeeeeee-haw!” and eased my foot off the accelerator just about the time the dust devil vanished. A father-son road trip in Death Valley: One muscle car, one teenager and the American West 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z It’s all admirable but irksomely self-conscious and contrived. Dance Review: Moving Preciously to the Music, Sometimes Stealing Away With It 2010-09-23T21:53:00Z Anthony didn't strike me as someone who was self-conscious and self-important about being a "celebrity." Bourdain collaborator Joel Rose: “Anthony was just as your mom saw him on TV” 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z “The more self-conscious it gets, the stiffer it gets.” W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z There’s a welcome, self-conscious wit in such metamorphoses, as when Mr. Merrick, playing a foot soldier, looks in wonder after the aristocratic fop who has just left the stage, also played by Mr. Merrick. Review: A Nose by Any Other Name in a Hudson Valley ‘Cyrano’ 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z But his great nephew nevertheless celebrated him, once writing: “With Eli, there is an impish, sly quality, not a self-conscious winking, exactly, but a palpable relish at the sheer fun of acting.” Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z CR: I probably wouldn’t have watched myself just because you become self-conscious, but I had to write a column every week for the Web site. Table For Three: The Mother of All ‘Housewives’ 2013-06-14T15:47:28Z Or maybe I was just self-conscious about seeing “Fifty Shades Darker” alone at 11 a.m. on a Saturday. Dolby, 70 Millimeter or Imax? Our Critic Helps You Choose 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z I’ve missed so many years of enjoying the sun on my skin because I was so self-conscious about my body. Sam Smith Is Finding a Place Inside Queer Spaces 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z In Graham’s own choreography, they look tense, stiff-backed, self-conscious, showy. Dance Review: Martha Graham Company in Old and New Works 2014-03-23T22:39:40Z Some of the musicians were self-conscious emissaries from their homes; others were expatriates and widely traveled citizens of a connected world. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z I am not a real fan of games; I get incredibly self-conscious, and I am not very good at most of them. Carolyn Hax: Don’t let insecurity force you to play along It was a typical pronouncement for Ms. Allen: smiling, self-conscious, blunt. Lily Allen Brings Biting Sincerity to the Highline Ballroom 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But last Friday some 250 academics and civilians gathered at Harvard for a more self-conscious exercise: a chance to take notes on note-taking. Note-Taking Seminars at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2012-11-06T21:57:29Z I’m not self-conscious as I ask him to watch me touch myself and explore my body, pretending my hands are his. My awkward sober sex life 2012-10-28T16:01:00Z It’s the sixth album by the Strokes, always a supremely self-conscious band. On ‘The New Abnormal,’ the Strokes Flip Nostalgia Toward the Future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Like Meadow’s movies, “Innocents” is a highly reflexive and self-conscious work, continually curling in on itself. Review: Dana Spiotta’s ‘Innocents and Others’ Explores the Dynamics Between Life and Art 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z A perfect example is, ironically, the 2014 film adaptation of Sondheim’s Into The Woods, because it is self-conscious and senseless, everything Sondheim shouldn’t be. Forget Cats: in a close-run field, Marriage Story was the musical highlight of my holiday 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z There's a rather self-conscious passage early in the book in which Karun lectures Sarita on the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma, representing forces of preservation, destruction and creation. The City of Devi by Manil Suri – review 2013-04-08T08:00:02Z But the new song also sounded more self-conscious and measured and felt just a tad too calculated. The Lumineers deliver an infectious show at Marymoor 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z “This is the end of our self-conscious look at theaters,” Mr. Redden said. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z Jaime is self-conscious, anxious and unsure of his place in the world. Teenage Heroes in a Mythical Land Fight Monsters, and Stereotypes 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z His prose here is knowingly self-conscious, its over-explications verging on farce. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z “I’m very self-conscious about the idea of realism,” he said. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z There is a good deal of such self-conscious striving for cool. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-20T10:30:01Z Of course, she noted, “He will be more self-conscious about this whether he’s coached or not.” A video of Beto O’Rourke’s wild hand gestures went viral. Does distinctive body language help or hurt a candidate? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z And yet, with its ludic meta-fictionality and the self-conscious construction of characters, the novel cleverly dodges knowable reality, circumventing the question of authenticity altogether. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z There was no self-conscious sticking out of electronics like on the simpler tunes. Robert Moog: 'I wouldn't call this music' – a classic interview to mark a Google doodle 2012-05-23T10:54:12Z They were often remarkably self-conscious about sitting down to write. From me, with love: the lost art of letter writing 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z And as self-conscious as her lyrics are, the way her voice leaps around — like a polygraph test during an earthquake — is anything but insecure. The Playlist: An Indie-Rock Supergroup Is Born, and 9 More New Songs 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z They are too self-conscious to risk appearing ideological, and too paralyzed to speak of where their generation stands vis-à-vis history. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z So, the sound of Jewishness always rang in my ear when my friends would call across the hallway, “Hey Spielberg,” and I was very self-conscious about that. Steven Spielberg Gets Personal 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Many kids are self-conscious enough without having to look at old photos of their awkward years on a classroom wall. I Found Condoms in My Son’s Room. What Should I Do Now? 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Due to the high demands of heavy-lifting — scene-setting, character introduction and general exposition — most sitcom pilots are clunky and self-conscious to the point of embarrassment. NBC's 'One Big Happy' doesn't quite reach comedic bliss 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z This may look gimmicky and self-conscious, but it is consistently and seriously presented, and Franco's As I Lay Dying is a worthwhile movie, approached in an intelligent and creative spirit. Cannes 2013: As I Lay Dying – first look review 2013-05-20T16:11:33Z The politics of free jazz were inseparable from its aesthetic transformation of jazz into overt and self-conscious modernism. Coltrane’s Free Jazz Wasn’t Just “A Lot of Noise” 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z I didn’t realise that, because I was a self-conscious, picked-on kid, when people were looking at me, I’d feel they were making fun of me.” Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z He was supremely self-conscious about being a “filmmaker from New York dropping into what was arguably one of the reddest states in the country.” Perspective | In ‘Stillwater,’ Tom McCarthy questions America’s moral authority through the lens of a red-state hero 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z That’s how it is at this neighborhood restaurant, a type once common in the city and now seemingly most valuable when it has vanished and been resurrected as a self-conscious simulacrum of its former self. At Donohue’s, a Nightly Steak, a Life Gone By 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “Is it a self-conscious and ludicrous performance of guilt?” he muses. Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It may be that “Your Highness,” a self-conscious, sometimes overly self-satisfied goof about ye olde high times, may be better enjoyed in an herb-enhanced condition. | 'Your Highness': They Huffed and Puffed and Waited to Exhale 2011-04-07T22:55:33Z And so in a sense are Proust’s men and women, whose will is blind and hard, but never self-conscious, never abolished in the pure perception of a pure subject. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z Downstairs, the diffident, intensely self-conscious paintings of Alex Kwartler’s “Snowflake” are named after poems by Frank O’Hara and Emily Dickinson, among others, but the poet they made me think of was A.R. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z As I squeeze the ball and blink back at the circle of men waiting for me to speak, I feel embarrassed and self-conscious. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of “Arrested Development,” said that the guy who plays tortured and self-conscious is neither. The Actor Michael Cera Is Now Writing and Directing, Too 2013-07-03T12:00:01Z The badness tends to be a different kind of badness — slow, earnest, lugubrious prose, or too-clever and self-conscious prose — but bad it nonetheless is. Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z After all, it is framed by the self-conscious recollections of a Brooklyn lawyer, who speaks as ponderously of inexorable fate as any Greek chorus ever did. Review: ‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Some of my friends are above it—they don’t “ha” much or at all, which makes me self-conscious. Hahaha vs. Hehehe 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z One minute, his actors are dragging you deep into the story with raw emotion; the next, they’re pushing you out of the movie with brittle, self-conscious artificiality. Movie Review: Pain Abounds in Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomanic’ (Surprised?) 2014-03-20T22:09:41Z At 45, she works for a nonprofit organization that provides food to poor children, and she is about as self-conscious, self-involved and self-questioning a person as you’re likely to meet. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Similarly, someone else said it was "milk chocolate–esque" and that they could "eat a ton of this one," before becoming self-conscious: "Am I basic?" they wrote. We tried 17 dark chocolate brands to find our snack soulmate 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z She may feel judged or self-conscious, though if I am reading between the lines correctly, a part of you may want her to feel that way. Social Q?s: A Face-Lift Is Not Worth Mentioning 2012-02-09T19:30:15Z The gatherings held on Venice Beach and organized by Ecstatic Dance LA are normally held indoors and under clear guidelines in part meant to limit participants from becoming self-conscious. AP PHOTOS: Dancers silently lose themselves on Venice Beach 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Many of us are far too self-conscious to notice much about others. I’m 80 and … #MeToo 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It made the people Baudier encountered at once more curious about her interest in them and less self-conscious about being photographed; none of their poses felt practiced or rehearsed. “We Are Not Used to People Thinking We Are Beautiful” 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z I was always very self-conscious about not being cool enough, that I wasn’t snarky or super aloof and witty and cutting in that cool way. Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z Maids and other domestic servants don’t have the pride of place they had in an earlier, less self-conscious time. Television Review: ‘Devious Maids,’ With Ana Ortiz, on Lifetime 2013-06-21T22:32:49Z Though not explicitly autobiographical, this film is deeply personal, and while the nature of cinema is very much on its mind, it rarely feels insular or self-conscious. Movie Review: ‘Americano,’ by Mathieu Demy, at Sunshine Cinema 2012-06-14T21:28:25Z Goffman saw the practice of cooling the mark out as the self-conscious application of a pervasive social mechanism, which is helping people accept failure. Crooked Psychics and Cooling the Mark Out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s a self-conscious nod, from Guettel and Lucas, to their uncommon fusion of operatic melodrama with the psychological realism of contemporary musical theater. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z You're never not being incredibly self-conscious about what people are trying to collect as fodder for the sessions when they're not in them. Where's Daniel Yuen? "The Lost Kids" podcast probes ties between "troubled teen" camp and '60s cult 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z For these eleven minutes, self-conscious as they are, her humanity shines through. Beyoncé Released a Beautiful Short Film Celebrating the Anniversary of her Self-Titled Album 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Often, her lyrics start out self-conscious and uncertain, only to let the music sweep away all doubts. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Plus, it was comedy that presented Chicano culture to a broad audience in a way that was never didactic or self-conscious. Cheech Marin, a singular Renaissance man, talks about comedy, pottery, pot, art and his new memoir 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z “The issue I hear from casting agents is that young American actors now are very self-conscious of their image,” he said. Michael Douglas: American male actors are too 'asexual' to get film roles 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The opening ceremony, airing later than it needed to and truly choked with ads, seemed like an almost self-conscious attempt to alienate the audience. NBC Missed the Point of the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z The preternaturally self-conscious Woosters deliver the Trojans with a nimbus of uncertainty around every aspect of the production. Coriolan/us; Troilus and Cressida – review 2012-08-11T23:06:04Z Born with a clubfoot, Philip is self-conscious of his handicap and nearly poor, yet he’s bolstered by loyal friends and an encouraging future. Review: Falling Hard for a Master Manipulator in ‘Of Human Bondage’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The Irish — mea culpa — have always been willfully ambiguous, unbearably self-conscious and, as O’Toole puts it, riddled with the “known unknowns.” His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Obviously, the danger here is listening to pompous critics like me and getting all self-conscious, where you start thinking about what you’re doing. Brandy Clark, the Raymond Carver of the Hot Country charts: “I live in a world where we have to tell a whole story in just three minutes” 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Sure, the lyrics are high-minded, at times—Guterman singled out the phrase "darkness has a hunger that's insatiable" from "Closer to Fine" as evidence of the musicians' self-conscious rage for doing something momentous. We've reached the point in the stay-at-home life when only the Indigo Girls LP will do 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z There was no self-conscious striving for effect because the composer's own voice was kept paramount. Lewis' Schubert recital a thing of rare beauty 2011-05-23T17:16:10Z Insightful, self-aware without being self-conscious, modest, mature, humane and human. In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z You will either love what they do or be driven to distraction by its self-conscious wackiness. New band of the day – La Shark (No 1,399) 2012-11-20T16:34:47Z In one self-conscious moment, the Ain’t Rights talk about eschewing the modern-day promotion of social media, even if it means relegating themselves to obscurity. How D.C. punk influenced one of the year’s most anticipated horror movies 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z On my first night of the trip, self-conscious, I walked into an Indiana Holiday Inn looking around for clues of hate. I was born in Iran, and misogyny pushed me away from my culture. Now I have hope for Iranian girls 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Acutely self-conscious but fiercely intelligent, she consistently renders a strange, mordantly funny and precisely observed world. Elif Batuman turns her gifts to fiction in 'The Idiot' 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The much-ballyhooed arrival of Soho House on Sunset, an import from London and New York with a self-conscious exclusivity, failed to fill the void. A Contender Elbows In 2011-02-18T22:42:20Z But by the time Liszt reaches Italy, the music strikes an increasingly self-conscious pose in front of the country’s artistic treasures. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Take On Travel and Folk 2014-04-28T20:16:46Z But then I realised it's because the character is self-conscious, at which point I thought 'just embrace it'. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z It’s the type of thing that shouldn’t have a shelf life, but it does because the joy is that it’s self-conscious — not self-indulgent. Dance Review: Seduced by a Savior Who Likes to Dance 2010-09-24T21:56:00Z This brings me to the book’s self-conscious and ubiquitous use of accessories, many of them practical day-to-day items. Zanele Muholi, a South African Artist Who Uses Self-Portraits as Visual Activism 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Although the somewhat stridently self-conscious wordplay drags the pace more than its final payoff reaps, this novel ultimately proves both clever and impossible to put down. 'The Beautiful Bureaucrat' a mind-bending, thrilling page-turner 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z He liked the cards, because he felt less self-conscious sitting in a coffee shop with them than he did writing in a journal or answering a questionnaire. Self-tracking: the people turning their bodies into medical labs 2012-11-24T00:05:29Z I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Life's looking up, Dame Harriet 2011-01-15T12:04:01Z Mr. Harvard speaks clearly, although with what he called a “deaf accent” that he is self-conscious about, and with the deliberateness of someone speaking a language that is not a mother tongue. Russell Harvard Finds Life Parallels ?Tribes? Role 2012-04-10T22:13:20Z Often the climactic life-and-death fight between the three protagonists is little more than self-conscious pantomime. Swan Lake ? review 2011-01-25T18:40:02Z They all read young, for sure, but with the self-conscious, just-say-the-words neutrality that stems from being insecure. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In adulthood, she briefly modelled for Gap, but in adolescence her height made her acutely self-conscious. Kathryn Bigelow on Detroit: ‘There’s a radical desire not to face the reality of race’ 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z And all of the many interpretations of her smile – lonely, tragic, self-conscious, uncomfortable, superior, even sinister – depend on that lack of explanation. The man who stole the Mona Lisa 2011-08-05T21:55:04Z He was self-conscious about the way his teeth appeared, but refused to have them fixed, believing that altering anything about his mouth could change his vocal performances. 32 surprising facts about Freddie Mercury 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z Fanning has about her what Penelope Fitzgerald, in her novel about child actors, At Freddie’s, described as “the bright airs of the indulged”, a simultaneous innocence and self-conscious performance of innocence. Dakota Fanning: ‘There was an expectation – to fail, to succeed’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z If you feel self-conscious staying sober when everyone else is in their cups, don’t. Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z In particular, he disdains the careful, self-conscious husbanding of themes and messages that preoccupies many of his peers. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Songs like “I Go by Feel,” “I Came Up Hard” and “All That Makes Me Happy Is the Blues” are self-conscious but heartfelt manifestoes, and “Whiskey Ghost” shows sobriety haunted by temptation. Playlist: New Music From Washed Out, Buddy Guy and Natalia Lafourcade 2013-08-09T18:39:31Z Fiction has "become a museum-piece genre most of whose practitioners are more like cripplingly self-conscious curators or theoreticians than writers". A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z This is a stately and self-conscious piece of work, though with a quaint kind of elegance and poise. Cannes 2012: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet ? review 2012-05-21T11:24:05Z “Overrun,” a self-conscious action flick from the director Josh Tessier, plays with genre conventions to fashion a comedic tale of revenge and redemption. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z This symphony, especially the first movement, comes across at times as a self-conscious “major statement.” Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z The comment certainly made me feel self-conscious when I was looking at Polo’s show. What makes us connect with an artist? 2013-07-23T02:05:03Z I guess I’m getting older and I’m getting a little more self-conscious. Playlist: Worldly Influences On a Young Artist 2011-07-22T18:47:47Z The self-conscious beauty of this show, ultimately, lends it an air of nostalgia; it suggests not only that the past is always better, but that we're helpless to secure the future. Above Me the Wide Blue Sky – review 2013-03-15T17:33:30Z Everybody seems to think they're the only one... to have a desire for something... to be self-conscious, have nerves or whatever. Let's talk about sex 2013-01-18T07:55:33Z Nervous and self-conscious, he sang “Three Blind Mice.” New U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera made a fantastic debut in DC 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z As a dutiful student, she was self-conscious about her muted fervency: Faced with such horrors as My Lai, how much resistance is enough? Review | A novel that’s a lot like life: Jumbled and challenging and wonderfully real 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z But Perfume Genius is too self-conscious and too doubtful to sink into retro comforts. Perfume Genius Grows Brasher and More Introspective on ‘No Shape’ 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z But somehow the combination is too self-conscious; it's like going to someone's house for dinner and having them lecture you about all the local, organic ingredients they used, rather than just letting you eat. "In a Better World": Oscar-winning odyssey of Euro-guilt 2011-04-01T21:02:00Z A leader now in a milieu where college, if not graduate school, is the rule, he makes self-conscious jokes about that blank on his résumé. Even Billy Eichner Likes This Guy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Between so many bursts of joyful noise, he seemed inexplicably aggrieved — a god atop Mount Olympus feeling self-conscious about the length of his lightning bolt. Did rock-and-roll die at Desert Trip? Or did it finally achieve eternal life? 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “Women have been wearing padded bras for years, and they get into romantic situations and some are self-conscious and some probably just don’t care,” Mr. Olvera said. Skin Deep: For Men, a Gluteus More Maximus 2013-07-24T14:34:27Z And it’s a faux-1970s European study of a couple in meltdown on the Mediterranean, high on self-conscious ennui and retro-couture; short on dialogue, or positive reviews, it turns out. Here's looking at me: Does Angelina Jolie’s By the Sea qualify for Hollywood’s Hall of Vain? 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “I’m self-conscious about weird things,” said Mike Jordan, 44, who does market research for a real estate company Chicago . Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid? 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z And though rampant with provocation, Can lacked the self-conscious guile of much Western experimentalism. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z More important, they make us worry that our daughter will become self-conscious about her size. My Boyfriend’s Parents Are Ignorant About Race. Why Should I Have to Teach Them? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z |
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