| 单词 | self-consciously |
| 例句 | He walked through life self-consciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She stood up, self-consciously, to let him pass and hoped she would smell something on him, but she didn’t. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The girl stepped into the hall, closing the door behind her; arms folded self-consciously before her small high breasts, she faced him, eager to understand. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She looked around self-consciously, but thankfully, Paulette was nowhere to be seen. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At eight o’clock he was back sweeping the front of the hotdog stand self-consciously. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z St. Joseph’s Prep holds itself in high moral regard and self-consciously grooms America’s future elites. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He moved his wineglass toward his family, who looked back self-consciously, lowering their eyes at last as everyone drank. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Franny suddenly sat up a trifle straighter in her seat, self-consciously. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z At the end of its own cul-de-sac, it was a large modern house of the “architectural” sort, bleached cedar, its split levels and asymmetrical terraces self-consciously bare. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z From the Eroica symphony onwards, Beethoven self-consciously became a composer with a mission: he would change the world through his art. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I was paired with a woman named Dulce, who was missing some of her teeth, so when she spoke she bowed her head self-consciously and directed the sounds at the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “She wants us,” Mr. Winnike said, and now he smiled self-consciously, or seemed to, “to have a conversation.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He paid strict attention as his friend went to the stage and stood self-consciously beside the Chief Elder. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He held the little child against his chest and self-consciously kissed her forehead. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Nick plays it tongue in cheek, smiling self-consciously. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Kvothe let out his breath self-consciously and motioned Chronicler to set down his pen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My head snaps up to look at them, and they both smile self-consciously. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Hazel looked down at her rumpled denim, not self-consciously, but baffled, as if she couldn’t imagine what was wrong with them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll also admit to the fact that certain arcanists occasionally use prepared candles or torches to impress gullible townsfolk,” Ben said, clearing his throat self-consciously. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her voice changed; she spoke now in the high-pitched voice of the self-consciously female. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His moves were jerky and unsure, and he kept glancing self-consciously over his shoulder, but he continued to move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Also, Dewey found the self-consciously casual conversation of his fellow witnesses, as they stood awaiting the start of what one witness termed “the festivities,” disconcerting. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I shifted my lute self-consciously and shook my head. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She stopped, self-consciously, and put out her cigarette. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He stood self-consciously talking to her as she helped to dean the tables. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I dressed hastily, surrounded by silence and self-consciously averted gazes, then bounded down with a small, wimpily neutral good-bye. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The chaplain blushed again, grinning self-consciously, and then turned very respectful. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he had not sought out the impending duel with Burr, there was nothing in Hamilton’s lifelong pattern that would permit a self-consciously bland and supremely triumphant refusal of the challenge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We passed the platter of turkey self-consciously and did our best to pretend he wasn’t casting a wet tarpaulin over our entire feast. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I bite my lip, tugging self-consciously at my dress and cursing my decision to wear this thing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But at first, thinking they were merely trying to attract attention in order to say hello, Linda smiled self-consciously and waved. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Center frame, pink-cheeked and smiling self-consciously, while Hudson’s doubled over, cracking up. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The next Sunday, when Dad convened the second meeting of the Council, we sat self-consciously around the table, biding our time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I strolled rather self-consciously across the lawn to the house, aware that they might be watching me still from a chink in the shutters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He raises his hand and touches his eye self-consciously. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And then they stood self-consciously before the pony, and then they looked at Jody with eyes in which there was a new admiration and a new respect. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Bast self-consciously pulled his cuff back into place. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Whenever it saw Aru looking, it would stop and lick its front paw self-consciously. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the same self-consciously jocular style he soon began to refer to his Quincy estate as “Montezillo,” which he claimed meant “very little mountain,” in deference to Jefferson’s Monticello, which meant “little mountain.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He pulled his hands away self-consciously and leaned back against the doorjamb. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She sat up, pulling herself away from the man self-consciously. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Carl let his eyes flick over to Bernabe, who had dropped his eyes to where his boot tips—pointing outward from being on the wrong feet—were scuffing self-consciously in the dust. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Except Abby kind of goes into her own world when she dances, so Nick and Martin end up bobbing self-consciously and pointedly not looking at each other. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z But those had been open-fisted, more pats than punches, self-consciously friendly, comfortable expressions of anxieties that were both perplexing and thrilling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I looked around self-consciously, but no else seemed to have noticed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She looked down self-consciously and flattened her smile into a smirk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z His special distinction as a speaker was not to deliver the full- bore, self-consciously Greco-Roman ornamentation of his predecessors. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z By day, Helen moved self-consciously through the yard. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She flicked her cigarette ash self-consciously, just missing the ashtray. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Bast sat on the edge of the bed and smoothed down his pants self-consciously. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The men made many trips to the forge and came back self-consciously wiping their mustaches. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Jonas looked self-consciously into the pale eyes that mirrored his own. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Matthias fumbled with a piece of celery and self-consciously turned to see if the twins were coping adequately. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The old woman pulled the bell cord and got out of the seat, trying self-consciously to avoid any contact with the anatomy of Jones, who watched her writhing through the detachment of his green lenses. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he sees Helene, Leander self-consciously runs his hand over his curly hair—which sticks up all over the place no matter how short he cuts it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Yeah. He was . . . kind of over the top when you got hurt down in Phoenix. He didn’t believe . . .’’Jacob trailed off self-consciously. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z At the same time, it was like I’d caught them doing something they shouldn’t, and they moved apart self-consciously. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet some of the posturing is too self-consciously aggressive, too West Side Story. Richard Alston Dance Company – review 2012-10-05T11:11:10Z It is one of Godard’s most conspicuously and self-consciously audacious and ambitious movies. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z A few poses looked like quotes from Merce Cunningham works, which only added to the self-consciously strained effect. At Ivy Baldwin Dance’s ‘Oxbow,’ only the dancing is static But these self-consciously silly sequences are actually reasonable representations of the illustrated sermons McPherson regularly delivered as the Sunday night special at her spectacular Los Angeles church, the Angelus Temple. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z Daniels’s first book, at just 126 pages, includes essays and short stories, thoughtful and almost self-consciously literary, which all originally appeared in The Paris Review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The same flatness enters the otherwise lively “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” on occasion, whenever Schumer tries to make a good point in a serious, self-consciously correct tone. Amy Schumer’s New Obligations 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z My issue is that I’m self-consciously ruining my current job through truly epic levels of procrastination. I’m avoiding work 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z The role of James Donovan is self-consciously tamped down; he’s a relatively anonymous lawyer whose special qualities only become clear over time. Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg on Bridge of Spies, Racism in Hollywood and Star Wars 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Leaving aside Everett's self-consciously "zany" style, which never did much for me, it now seems strange that radio DJs ever occupied such dominant positions in the culture. Rewind TV: Hunted; Monroe; Arena: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour; Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story; Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile; Welcome to India – review 2012-10-06T23:05:46Z With so many self-consciously explosive series vying for your attention, Halt and Catch Fire played a different game. Farewell to Halt and Catch Fire, the best show that nobody watched 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z You might think of “Se7en” or “Zodiac” or a lost season of “True Detective,” though this movie is less self-consciously stylized than any of those. ‘The Little Things’ Review: Good Old-Fashioned Police Work 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z You ask or imply a question at the beginning of a book and you absolutely self-consciously withhold the answer. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z The conceit emphasized the show’s overarching theme: women perceiving or envisioning themselves — often self-consciously, as if from the outside — in the context of a discordant world. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z As I self-consciously strode towards Sir Basil Spence's creation in a fold of the Sussex Downs, I felt dismissive of the idea of a new university. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z But on the other hand, to say this trivialization is truly damaging in a moral sense may be giving too much weight to a frivolous, self-consciously provocative holiday. The Ethics of Wearing an Ebola Costume for Halloween 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z From the beginning, “Last Seen” wants to make the most of its juicy story—self-consciously so. The Mystery of the Inconclusive Podcast 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The hay — not to mention the marauding birds, “The Wizard of Oz” and the narrative legerdemain — could easily have made “You Will Get Sick” too self-consciously poetic, its spray of images dissipating too quickly. Review: ‘You Will Get Sick’ Tells the Untellable, for a Price 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z Like nearly everything about this dance, which Ms. Shanahan’s Chicago company, Mad Shak, opened at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday evening, the choreographic construction is self-consciously calculated. Dance Review: Molly Shanahan?s Troupe at the Joyce SoHo 2012-03-23T22:10:19Z He mocked Hamilton for his ploy of misdirection, chiding him for what amounted to an unmanly cowardice–and no one in early American politics was more self-consciously macho than Hamilton. Jerry Sandusky’s guilty — and so are we 2012-06-25T13:59:00Z It’s less jagged and self-consciously transgressive, more studied and self-possessed. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z “Miles Ahead” and “Born to Be Blue” self-consciously play with genre by transforming Davis’s impressionistic style and Baker’s tender pathos from the stage to narrative structures. ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Nina’ Try to Hit the Beat on the Offbeat 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z As a lieutenant in charge of a platoon, Montauk struggles to find his footing as a leader and self-consciously tries to learn how to project authority. Review: ‘War of the Encyclopaedists,’ by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z All their characters, as well as that of a new, less wealthy mom played by Shailene Woodley, are self-consciously “rounded” — their Type A outbursts balanced by moments of humor and compassion. Review: In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Monterey Moms and Their Clichés 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z There’s nothing new about this: Many a self-consciously literary novelist has dipped a toe in the genre in order to examine themes of identity, betrayal, duplicity and so on. Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The script, in which self-consciously playful banter gives way to sudden floods of loud feeling, might have worked better as a string of emoji. Movie Review: Zoe Kazan Plays Disparate Twins in ‘The Pretty One’ 2014-02-07T00:05:05Z He’s much less self-consciously virtuosic than even his contemporaries among pop singers. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Hegarty has always been drawn to voices that self-consciously channel female mythic power. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z Half the fun of watching Mr. Gutierrez’s videos is catching the self-consciously silly “Zoolander” looks he shoots the camera between makeup tricks. Those Lips! Those Eyes! That Stubble! The Transformative Power of Men in Makeup 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Like Susan Sontag’s “On Photography,” to which it self-consciously responds, “The Social Photo” is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The Doors always considered themselves "more" than a rock band and Manzarek, Densmore and Krieger often managed a flowing rapport that blended rock, blues and jazz behind Morrison's self-consciously poetic lyrics. Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies at 74 2013-05-21T14:23:11Z They struggle self-consciously with the mechanics of articulating their thoughts on paper. Review | An African American couple torn apart by the justice system 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most successful attempt was Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves, a book which self-consciously integrated the "hauntology" of French theory into an avant-garde puzzle box. Horror: a genre doomed to literary hell? 2012-11-07T11:47:02Z This is not because it lacks self-consciously political art. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The film shows a stab at freedom caught in time, self-consciously modern lives played in period costumes and styles. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Even when they’ve been self-consciously set off against each other for maximum quirk, as they are here, these are performers who can dig a little deeper than their material. | 'The Guard': Mismatched Partners in a Crime Comedy 2011-07-29T00:26:25Z Ms. Cash, who is previously the author of “Bodies of Water,” a book of short stories, is a self-consciously literary storyteller. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z The opening concert, attended by luminaries from the arts world including culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, was an almost self-consciously grand occasion. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z But Streep is seen to smile at this point, self-consciously amused by her own wit. Does Meryl Streep shine as the Iron Lady? 2011-07-07T14:51:30Z We only get fragments, delivered in a melodramatic style that can turn self-consciously poetic. 'Indecent' is a moving reminder of art's power to expose truths 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The first line signals the self-consciously antiquated style he chose. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Its lyrics self-consciously reference the builds and drops characteristic of electronic music. Robyn and Röyksopp: robot pillow talk & more at Marymoor | Concert review 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z It's by no means perfect; there's almost nothing for the female characters, played by Olga Kurylenko and Abbie Cornish, to do, and it may all be too self-consciously tricksy for some. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2013-04-13T04:59:02Z The adapters felt it necessary to update the new special with some self-consciously contemporary movie-like touches that rang false. The Morning After: A New-Old Peanuts Special, and Other Thanksgiving Leftovers 2011-11-25T15:26:28Z It’s an extraordinarily effective act of artistic trolling, a self-consciously brazen provocation that also covers its tracks with winkingly transparent gestures. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z She even dressed that way, and not self-consciously. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But the sitcom Mary felt overworked and overthought, too self-consciously calling back to the past with its newspaper office full of pompous egotists. Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z This is the mood in the wings: manic, playful, the actors being self-consciously mannered and stagey. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z It’s a nailbiter, but I expect the more self-consciously “big” performance to edge it, with Washington joining the likes of Meryl Streep in the elite three-timer club. 'And the Oscar will go to' … who shall win the 2017 Academy Awards, and why 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He was going to be a star, but now, years later, he’s a nobody, self-consciously making smudged watercolors and sketches that he immediately declares worthless. ‘The Poltergeist’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Madman 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Productions of Coward plays were hobbled for years by performers consciously or self-consciously imitating the creator's clipped diction. Authors in search of a character: when playwrights stage themselves 2013-02-11T16:09:45Z The thing about self-consciously naïve art is that it takes a lot of practice to be good at it. Playlist : At Midcareer, Some Astonish, Some Explore 2011-04-29T18:39:43Z This is a piece to admire, but its West End, dead-behind-the-eyes slickness and sameness over two acts makes you long for something less self-consciously clever, and much more wildly inventive and free. Nevermore 2010-07-07T20:31:00Z Compared to the po-faced Metallica and the self-consciously quirky Arcade Fire, the band appeared to be enjoying their headline slot. Triumphant Kasabian close Glastonbury 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z The painting is self-consciously old-fashioned, with flowing drapery, a tile floor that looks borrowed from a Dutch interior, and a sky-blue background. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit “It was America alive, performing self-consciously but with gusto.” Remembering Hands Across America 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z That also requires each individual film to be self-consciously formulaic in the process. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”: Tom Cruise action spectacle delivers high-level summer fun 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Despite its self-consciously humorous multicultural title, this show is mostly “A Christmas Carol.” ‘A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa’ 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Still — 700 pages devoted to a self-consciously superficial musical phenomenon that blazed at the dawn of the ’70s, then fizzled out in just five years? Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Some are animated by that solemn mix of lyricism and the desire to shock one associates with young, self-consciously avant-garde artists; others register as extended satirical sketches, etched with scalpels of varying sharpness. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Familiar Faces and Themes All Over the World 2011-07-21T19:00:11Z Recently, I met a friend for coffee at Four Letter Word, a self-consciously trendy cafe in Chicago’s Logan Square. Are restaurant dining rooms getting louder (again)? 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z A boy-meets-girl story set at a finishing school on the French Riviera, the show featured flapper dress and self-consciously innocuous songs like “I Could Be Happy With You” and “Won’t You Charleston With Me?” Sandy Wilson, Composer and Writer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ Dies at 90 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Choi has translated Ahn’s Korean to English, but not into self-consciously artful poetry, as if to say, I cannot speak for him. For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog self-consciously idealizes the hardscrabble life of fur trappers using extraordinary footage of a remote Siberian village culled from a Russian television film. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 17, 2013 2013-02-13T22:06:22Z This is a film drenched in visual and self-consciously cinematic rapture. The Skin I Live In ? review 2011-08-25T13:00:01Z The second act is much stronger, mainly because Norris seems on firmer ground satirizing his contemporaries — the self-involved, self-consciously liberal yuppies busily going over plans for the neighborhood’s renovation. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z In his masterly study of "The Beethoven Quartets," musicologist Joseph Kerman, while rightly saluting this rather self-consciously affecting movement's ambition and arduousness, puts an unerring finger on the whiff of sentimentality that undermines those qualities. Review: More Olympian music-making at Quilcene's Olympic Music Festival 2010-08-09T17:48:00Z Same-sex couples, he added, “have an opportunity to construct their marriages self-consciously in a way straight people have been denied.” Special Issue: Gay Marriage: Ready to Wed? No, Mom. 2011-07-22T19:37:03Z It is she whom he embraces, stiffly and self-consciously, in a genuinely affecting moment of tentative connection. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z The live Web show “What’s Trending” at cbsnews.com, an attempt to build a news-and-chat program driven by social networking — sort of a digital “Today” — is a self-consciously experimental project. ArtsBeat: Watchlist: A Self-Conscious Web Experiment From CBS News 2011-05-24T15:20:10Z The line seemed to describe, prophetically and a bit self-consciously, the mood that might await the nation on Wednesday morning. Richard Nelson’s Final Election Play Proves to Be Eerily Prophetic 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Despite their best efforts, the self-consciously arbitrary plot remains glutinously indigestible. Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z But “Magic Mike” is a more abstract and self-consciously artistic view of the male-stripper subculture than the marketing campaign suggests, and opening-weekend audiences eager for cheerful nastiness may find themselves baffled. “Magic Mike”: Channing Tatum’s stripper romance 2012-06-27T21:10:00Z Still, like the film itself, these visuals come off as more self-consciously glib than authentically clever. 'Eternity: The Movie' is fleeting fun 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The laborious artiness of the short, self-consciously cryptic scenes that make up large swaths of the play start to chafe pretty early on — the stage direction “they sew” plainly valuing activity over speech. Review: ‘The Children,’ in London, Offers Hints of an Apocalypse 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z As a result, it feels less self-consciously literary than Mr. Swift’s earlier novels, and while it has a haunting, ceremonious pace, it also possesses a new emotional intensity. Review: Graham Swift’s ‘Mothering Sunday,’ a Haunting Day Forever Relived 2016-04-28T04:00:00ZIn many ways, the musicians are extrapolating the heritage of tropicália, the 1960s movement that self-consciously and wittily modernized Brazilian pop. Music Review: ‘Brazilian Explorative Music,’ a Concert of Experimentation 2014-01-16T23:21:55Z The stakes in Bridge of Spies are self-consciously small; the lawyer Hanks plays is no one’s idea of a high-achieving litigator, and the exchange centers on three prisoners, not the future of the Republic. Bridge of Spies Paints History in Black and White 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The faery terrorists are, quite self-consciously, environmental extremists. ‘Seven Black Diamonds’ by Melissa Marr: Faeries for the environment 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z “The Truth” is much better whenever it settles, less self-consciously, into the terrain of tragicomedy, the bleak but funny landscape of Samuel Beckett’s forlorn tramps, marking time while awaiting their inevitable ends. | 'The Truth: A Tragedy': Cynthia Hopkins Excavates Her Father?s Life 2010-05-14T04:08:00Z Out the back is a covered garden where pretty much every celebrity you can think of is standing and smoking with a self-consciously devil-may-care air. Oscars 2011: My week with the stars 2011-03-01T07:59:00Z But Hewitt, of course, is a model of discretion and elegance, and – despite some self-consciously moulded phrasing – Oliva's playing is generally immaculate. Bach: Flute Sonatas – review 2013-02-14T21:15:01Z He self-consciously and intentionally plans to create what he considers a work of art, and he affirms that his walk will be a thing of beauty. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Viewers are attuned to these witticisms not simply because they are funny, but because they're self-consciously ridiculous. The ancient history of adding insult to injury 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z I expect I self-consciously perused the shelves, made mental Christmas present notes, then left. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z In large and small ways, Bogdanovich is self-consciously riffing on screwball comedy in general, the Hawks in specific, with O’Neal stepping into the Cary Grant role and Streisand taking over for Katharine Hepburn. When Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal Went Screwball 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Campers, who spent $300 for the weekend, were sent maps, instructions and a suggested packing list designed with a self-consciously retro style that wouldn’t be out of place in a Wes Anderson film. A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech Addiction 2013-07-05T20:44:12Z Characteristically, Williams's prose is much less self-consciously "poetic", much more idiomatic, than that of his predecessors. Poster poems: Prose poems 2011-08-12T09:28:45Z It’s a more polished and less self-consciously fabulous product than it was in the early days — the videos began appearing in 2008 even before Lady Gaga’s first studio album, “The Fame.” Watchlist : Across the Web, a Constellation of Alter Egos 2011-04-24T00:48:52Z Her videos are all self-consciously faked, every emotion and thought acted up and played out. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z For one thing it is — perhaps too self-consciously — a beautiful production, especially as lit by Amith Chandrashaker to catch the actors’ haunted faces in the encroaching dark. Review: After Apartheid, Who Are ‘Boesman and Lena’? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z I remember beginning Jim Powell's The Breaking of Eggs and experiencing an unusual narrative voice that was neither inadequate nor self-consciously stylish, and a story that proceeded in traditional Greene-ian fashion, from self-delusion to disillusion. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z The rest of the program was revolutionary: Prokofiev’s self-consciously Modernist “Scythian Suite” and Scriabin’s self-indulgently sensual “Poem of Ecstasy.” Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The figures are rendered in a self-consciously arty style — call it "mass-market modern" — that is a kind of Cubist faceting squashed flat. LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Improbable coincidences continue, along with overwritten dialogue that veers from self-consciously enigmatic to windy and pretentious. | 'Letters to the End of the World': Anton Dudley?s Play About the Effects of AIDS 2010-05-10T21:44:00Z He has also demonstrated a new willingness to stretch beyond the affectless line readings and self-consciously makeshift settings that were his early signature. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z “The Rise & Fall of Great Powers” pursues that question in a languid, self-consciously convoluted manner. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman He has also self-consciously made a film focused on the struggles of women; his previous three features, including the 2011 “Shame,” about sex addiction, have all featured tormented or self-tormented male protagonists. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z The plans don’t just demonstrate great care but are also self-consciously monumental, as if this project were as grand as, say, the construction of dams and canals. Museum Review: New York Transit Museum 2011-12-15T23:03:45Z Because “Star Wars” is so self-consciously mythic, “Solo” is especially vulnerable to the “simulacra of simulacra” problem. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z What of the baroque, mannered, self-consciously literary style of Baudelaire and Wilde? Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z By the end of each segment, she has the young woman down to her underwear, looking self-consciously flattered, putty in an emotional predator’s hands. Art Review: A Burgeoning Film Career Built on Random Encounters 2011-02-24T22:35:21Z He had come out of the pastry kitchens of two of the country’s most determinedly avant-garde restaurants, Alinea and WD-50, and many of his dishes were self-consciously arty and tightly clenched. A Chef Dreams in Mexican at Empellón in Midtown 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z In “Little Women,” Gerwig powerfully, explicitly, and self-consciously puts in the practicalities, showing the decisions and events that lead to Jo becoming a successful author. The Compromises of Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women” 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z There is a fresh fluency to the writing here, which sets it apart from the other more self-consciously sculpted pieces on the program. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series, With New Compositions From Italy 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Roth is a founding editor of the earnest and self-consciously highbrow literary magazine n + 1. Books of The Times: In ‘The Scientists,’ Marco Roth Seeks Truth About His Family 2012-09-18T14:03:58Z With awkward sex scenes and flat dialogue, it, too, self-consciously drains the family of emotion. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z He was too self-consciously old school, too much a living link to vaudeville. James Franco's Oscars of apathy 2011-02-28T14:45:00Z David Robert Mitchell is a young American filmmaker with a remarkable and perhaps self-consciously old-fashioned command for the medium. “It Follows”: An instant horror classic about the dark side of teen sex 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z But that novel’s tone was more mannered and its style so self-consciously profound. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But when he finds a way to be less self-consciously virtuoso and more appealing this won't just warm the cockles, it will set them ablaze. Me and My Girl ? review 2010-12-21T21:29:00Z Mr. Gandhi puts the scene across, though, largely by not blowing it up into something self-consciously meaningful or telegraphing. Review: Before Barack, There Was ‘Barry’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z While wishing away a half-century-plus of cinematic changes, he inadvertently throws out the political changes of the times as well; his self-consciously liberal film proves inadvertently reactionary. Cameron Crowe's Reactionary Nostalgia 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z When I first profiled him in 2007, he framed our night out as a mock-“Wild One” ride from hell, complete with hypothetical biker gang, which he bestowed with a self-consciously moronic name, Die Fast. Justin Theroux Is on the Prowl 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z The catalog said they — but especially Bronzino — “endowed their works with an erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made Florentine portraiture distinctive.” Talking Across the Centuries to the Medici Family 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z He may be self-consciously striving to be at one with the motion of the planet, but he doesn’t appear to be at one with nature. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us It is – perhaps a little self-consciously – a darker-sounding, more edgy record than its predecessor, Youth Novels, although live her growing taste for theatre will undoubtedly carry the material over. This week's new live music 2011-04-08T23:07:52Z “It’s packaged for us, very self-consciously, as a performance, not as an experience,” Professor Lowenstein said. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It’s a recognizable Chicago product, self-consciously so: Mr. Walker made the album there, and it conveys a sense of place. Review: Ryley Walker Is Unsettled in a Chicago Way on ‘Golden Sings’ 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z If Scovel courts failure, Christopher hugs it tightly in “Street Special,” a deadpan, self-consciously awkward special, one of the first produced on Peacock. Stand-Ups Get Experimental in Five Adventurous New Specials 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z When it began, Sex And The City was a bracing, stylish – if admittedly quite annoying – no-holds-barred effort to explore themes of modern femininity in a self-consciously populist manner. Wanted: whoever killed Sex and the City. So we can shake your hand 2010-09-28T10:39:00Z Time is marked by the milestones of family life, rather than the signposted public happenings that festoon historical and self-consciously topical novels. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Rothkopf also marshals an elaborate if somewhat defensive argument for the way Mr. Koons self-consciously exposes the mechanisms of money and publicity in his art, in essence having his cake and eating it, too. ‘Jeff Koons: A Retrospective’ Opens at the Whitney 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z For some reason, I became oddly frustrated with the distinction drawn in that first question, of whether Vainity is an outsider artist or just a knowingly — and the subtext here is “self-consciously” — strange one. What does “outsider artist” even mean? 2012-09-16T00:00:00Z You might expect “Re-Member Me,” by Dickie Beau, to be the genre bender: It’s self-consciously eclectic, combining elements of drag, lip-sync, shadow play and tribute. In Solo Shows, Lip-Syncing ‘Hamlet’ and Investigating Home Movies 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z The average age of the few hundred folks who filled chairs on risers facing the main stage, or communed over tablets and excellent coffee in self-consciously designed networking nooks, must have been about 28. At RiseUp summit, Code Pink protesters give a real-time lesson in activism Mr. Wahlberg’s acting seems more a matter of being, while Mr. Bale’s appears self-consciously performed. The Oscars: Christian Bale Summons a Fallen Man?s Delusions 2010-12-31T18:45:24Z Mr. Banks’s writing developed from a self-consciously experimental style in his early books to the gritty realism that brought him renown. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z Emin draws, again and again, a reclining nude, but her lines are so whimsical and self-consciously "expressive" that we don't get much sense of physical reality at all. Tracey Emin should have had more fun at the seaside 2012-05-25T15:16:36Z His repertoire, in part, peers back over his tenure to remind us self-consciously of its high points. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-09-27T22:40:00Z Premises are too often self-consciously “wacky” and far-fetched, he says, rendering aging as something unnatural, or a process to be denied. Why does Hollywood ignore older audiences? 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z "It's, like, a really weird thing to bring down," she says, and laughs, placing the apple core self-consciously on the corner of the table. Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010-07-01T19:30:00Z He’s singing tenderly here, and less self-consciously than on his last album. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z "I find it harder, self-consciously so, to write a female narrator," the author, whose other works include "This Book Will Save Your Life" and "The End of Alice", told the Guardian newspaper last year. U.S. writer A.M. Homes denies Hilary Mantel literary treble 2013-06-05T18:23:44Z We are, you see, meant to be viewing this story of love, lust, vengeance and betrayal in 18th-century France through a couple of prisms: a contemporary one and a self-consciously theatrical one. Theater Review: ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ Opens at Lincoln Center 2013-07-12T22:07:59Z Even while appreciating the careful framing, meticulous grooming and self-consciously subversive wardrobe, it’s possible to see glimmers of the girl in that 1918 portrait, staring at the camera with unforced, disarming candor. At the National Portrait Gallery, Marlene Dietrich exerts a seductive, enigmatic pull 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z As a novelist, Wolfe self-consciously modeled himself on writers like Émile Zola and William Makepeace Thackeray, who attempted in their fiction to move past their own personal experience and capture wide swaths of society. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z One might defend these clichés on the grounds that they are presented self-consciously. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z And if you interview parent after parent about that, you can feel the kind of melancholy welling up in you, like, I really better self-consciously enjoy this. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z Aznavour was a self-consciously global pop star, singing in French, Russian, English, Armenian, Spanish, and German, while Sinatra represented the domination of the new American man. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Once Mr. Dorman got over his doubts — that writing self-consciously Jewish music “is not exactly what I do” — he hit on an idea for a piece that would be, well, exactly what he does. A Composer Not Afraid to Mash Things Up 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z These are not backstage shows but onstage shows, in which many of the biggest numbers are not dialogue being sung self-consciously but consciously sung songs. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z France is arguably the world’s most self-consciously intellectual country. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z "American Odyssey" is very much its own creation: clever, exciting, colorful without being self-consciously so. 'American Odyssey' a clever and exciting conspiracy thriller 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z A stylish crime flick in the 1990s mold, it combined violence and wisecracks into a confection that was glibly fun and self-consciously cool. ‘Get Shorty’: You Know the Name, but Not This Story 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z It's glossy and stodgy, almost as though Jolie were self-consciously trying to make a prestige picture rather than something personal and passionate. 'In the Woods' leaps from musical theater to movie theaters 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Trinidad photographed his dolls in their plastic habitats, creating a tongue-in-cheek archive that also calls to mind Laurie Simmons’s more self-consciously arty photographs. 2010-01-15T06:00:00Z And there’s a certain amount of self-consciously arty cinematography and editing. ‘Occupied’ and ‘The Bureau’: Two Gripping European Thrillers 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The temptation to overperform it—to wear it like you would a vintage jacket, self-consciously but proudly—is awfully strong. The Discovery of Roscoe Holcomb and the “High Lonesome Sound” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Those earlier versions used a self-consciously theatrical style to explore the transformative nature of theater. London Theater Journal: Discipline, Punish and Put on a Play 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Culture Collisions in the Andes In “Altiplano,” primitivism and modernism collide when bereaved women from opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum ignite a self-consciously spiritual tale of ecological exploitation. | 'Altiplano': Culture Collisions in the Andes 2010-08-20T00:58:00Z His language is flat and restrained – almost self-consciously untheatrical – even when telling the most dramatic stories. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The truth is that, for most of its history, British art was not self-consciously British at all. The story of British art: my 5,000 year hunt for treasure 2012-07-10T17:31:39Z Like other Adult Swim offerings, the show is stupid-smart, using gross-out gags and ridiculous, self-consciously broad stereotypes to create a gonzo, acid take on folksy Americana. Thanksgiving TV: Plan Your Other Binge 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Unlike that generally traditional if sprawling book, the novella is self-consciously experimental. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Again, I try this to mixed success: my choices of “blooming” and “crikey” make me feel a little too self-consciously like a cartoon chimney sweep. How to stop swearing this year: 'I always realise a millisecond too late' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z But triumphalism of video games as an art form against the inevitable howls from those who dismiss the notion is not the mood of the exhibition, which would more accurately be characterized as self-consciously meek. Exhibition Review: An Exhibition in Easy Mode 2012-03-15T22:58:51Z But Eno’s self-consciously idiosyncratic, academic style eventually gets old somewhere between the nuptial kidnapping and a trip to Egypt. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Chicago’s development of a similar idea isn’t nearly as orderly, nor so self-consciously intellectual in its remove from the words depicted. Review | Judy Chicago doesn’t have time for games. The planet is dying, and so are we. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But he was not self-consciously clever: he never talked down to his readers. Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day 2010-09-07T11:43:00Z But the stronger animus against the movie seems to be an annoyance with the characters — passive, mopey, self-consciously “creative” even though they do not create much of anything — that extends to the filmmaker herself. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z The two Ts are theatrical and self-consciously grand, painting for history. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z Heist movies tend of course to be similar and predictable, and “Army of Thieves” leans in, very self-consciously, to the style of the genre. ‘Army of Thieves’ Review: A Little Help From Some Old Friends 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z They were ambitious, unapologetically commercial projects intended for the entertainment and edification of grown-up audiences, neither self-consciously provocative nor timidly inoffensive. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z Jerky opener Cough Cough may showcase them at their most self-consciously wacky, but The Peaks is at the opposite end of the spectrum, attempting the kind of stadium melancholia beloved of Elbow or Coldplay. Everything Everything: Arc – review 2013-01-10T22:00:01Z But this album self-consciously pursues something else: music to reflect on and exorcise Mr. Erickson’s desperate years. Critics? Choice: New From Etheridge, Roky Erickson and Jacky Terrasson 2010-04-25T22:18:00Z Recruiting Hiddleston, hot off award-winning TV show The Night Manager, is indicative, and he is surrounded by an eclectic and self-consciously contemporary ensemble. Welcome to Skull Island: on set with Tom Hiddleston and the biggest King Kong ever 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It's less overtly Mahlerian than many performances, and consequently less self-consciously tragic. Shostakovitch: Orango; Symphony No 4 – review 2012-07-11T14:46:20Z It’s been said about the self-consciously vague film that for any interpretation the opposite also holds. L.A. Opera lets Ingmar Bergman's film 'Persona' sing 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Has a great mystery writer ever gone about her craft more self-consciously than P.D. Four perfectly drawn short mysteries by the late, great P.D. James 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s how effectively and self-consciously Mr. Askins melds comedy with a monstrous center. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Learning to listen well starts quite self-consciously but will also become a useful habit. The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The show self-consciously avoids sensationalism — commercial breaks will come midconversation, rather than on a dramatic beat, and episodes end with downbeat asides. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z These self-consciously historical or formal works tended to receive more tepid reviews than her poems drawn from personal experience or observations. Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-winning poet who drew on women’s experiences, dies at 89 While Green has a solid foot in the fashion world, having worked as a photographer for brands such as Fendi and Prada, his portraits are neither exploitative nor self-consciously hip. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Roving the compact stage of the Greenwich House Theater, where his darkly hilarious solo show “Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!” opened on Sunday, Reich is frenetic and restless, a self-consciously exaggerated cliché. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Calculus, in contrast, is self-consciously cool, at times even chilly. Prom 51: CBSO/Nelsons – review 2012-08-22T11:10:43Z More usual is the genre novel offered by a literary heavyweight self-consciously paddling in shallow waters, doing the genre a favor by splashing about in it. In a Gutsy Thriller, a Black Spy’s Past Comes Back to Haunt Her 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z As in “Modern Family,” the show deploys the hot wife trope self-consciously. Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Gabriel self-consciously set himself limits and conditions because, he said, he finds obstacles more helpful than complete freedom. Peter Gabriel Says, ?I?ll Sing Yours, You Sing Mine? 2010-03-01T22:48:00Z The voice-over narratives are less impressive; the didacticism of the monologues exacerbate the self-consciously meditative style of the performances. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Randall walks in a determined, forward-tilting lope, somewhat self-consciously, as if walking in public were an unavoidable evil she would like to dispense with as quickly as possible. The Dark Energy of a Theoretical Physicist 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z "Yes Please" is at times choppy and self-consciously eccentric. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “When the spirit entered. When I suddenly, self-consciously, said, ‘I am a poet.’” Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z According to Wylie, Arno “rather self-consciously and reluctantly” brought the drawings out of his portfolio. The Peter Arno Cartoons That Helped Rescue The New Yorker 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z For our part, we were bored senseless with the banality of the self-consciously Modern. Digested classic: Tarr by Wyndham Lewis 2010-06-04T10:05:00Z And yet “Hadestown” bravely, if self-consciously, resolves that way, announcing that the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice is an “old song” and “a sad song, but we sing it anyway.” Love, Trust and Heartbreak on Two Stages 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z The new museum is happily, self-consciously and entirely by design an institutional venture. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z A different kind of sensation attends the larger-scale, more self-consciously artificial action found in the “Transformer” movies and also, to a less fantastical extent, in things like “The A-Team” and “Knight and Day.” Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z If the only movie that gets a restrictive rating is one that self-consciously revels in it — say, “Ted” — then the ratings stop meaning much at all. 'Paddington' film: Lovable bear is at center of PG rating debate 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The director, David Leveaux, takes a moody, self-consciously stylized approach to the material, no doubt so as to separate “Backbeat” from the likes of “Million Dollar Quartet,” playing up the road. Theater Review: Dictators, Duchesses and Jukebox Musicals 2011-11-15T13:00:10Z This part of the evening felt too studied and self-consciously dramatic. Theater Review: Mike Daisey Vents in ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ at Joe’s Pub 2013-09-12T05:06:25Z Political photo ops are, by definition, artificial and self-consciously orchestrated events, designed to goose the news media into paying attention to whatever story line the White House or a campaign wants to promote. Of course Trump didn’t wear a mask on camera: How the president subverts the ritual of the political photo op 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z In a broadcast landscape full of slick, self-consciously campy melodramas, ABC’s turn to social realism is worth applauding. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Knox describes how she self-consciously experimented with casual sex and tried to become sophisticated about smoking pot. Waiting to be Heard: A Memoir by Amanda Knox – review 2013-05-01T12:06:08Z For Maya this means clumsily trying to disguise the fact she’s got her period, while Anna hunches over self-consciously in order to better match the height of her crush, Alex. The stars of Pen15 on playing their teenage selves: ‘It seems like torture’ 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z In the film, the children are self-consciously obnoxious and standard-issue cute. Matilda is Broadway's new Dahling 2013-04-12T10:59:00Z There's a self-consciously quirky quality to the proceedings at times – the judge and one of his cohorts exploring the area via BMX – but there's also a sense of menace. Tonight's TV highlighhts 2011-04-04T06:59:00Z But when Harper arrives on the scene, barking angrily at her father in Russian, the play devolves into a self-consciously quirky and ultimately sentimental story of hard-won healing between uncommunicative father and wounded daughter. | 'Close Up Space': ?Close Up Space,? With David Hyde Pierce - Review 2011-12-20T03:01:08Z And with its self-consciously self-involved hero, who happens to suffer from all of these woes, The Double describes—and aptly explains—the experiential anxieties of modern social media. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z Likewise the big Hollywood institutions have kept their indie studios in a self-consciously indie kennel outside. Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z In today’s self-consciously casual restaurant world, there’s room for attitude even with your Château Haut-Brion. What It Takes to Be a Master Sommelier 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z “Who is she?” she yearns for people to wonder as she drives by, with one self-consciously “fun-loving” hand draped over the wheel. Magical realism 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The school claimed that its case was self-consciously not an abridgement of free speech. The Civility Wars 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z When the novel begins, in nineteen-sixties England, she is a young homemaker with the personality of a lace doily: decorous, brittle, self-consciously antiquated. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Miranda self-consciously lets Eliza put herself “back in the narrative” as a final gesture, but it read so bald to me. Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The result is a new sort of indie rock that is chipper, rinky-dink, self-consciously handmade with discount-store melodies and neon attitude. The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z N + 1 is self-consciously pugnacious and intellectual, in the style of the old Partisan Review. Books of The Times: ‘MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction’ 2014-02-25T20:27:31Z The self-consciously funky air might have seemed precious if the songs were not performed with a complementary feeling of casual rediscovery, and it’s here that Mr. Riabko’s orchestrations play a pivotal role. Theater Review: ‘What’s It All About?’ at New York Theater Workshop 2013-12-06T03:00:11Z Many of these films deliberately mimic the tropes and stylistic tics of indie cinema – alienated teenagers, dysfunctional families, meditations on suburban soulnessness, self-consciously quirky humour, and a generous resort to shock tactics or the taboo . Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z The film, which won’t open until next year, is rife with the potential to be too self-consciously out there by half. The Toronto International Film Festival goes old-school, in a good way 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Want to stand around self-consciously dancing to almost inaudibly quiet music? Can TV's returning Birds of a Feather cope in Towie's Essex of today? 2013-06-18T12:12:30Z It’s not too salty or too sour, and it’s neither self-consciously artisanal nor aggressively, weirdly authentic. ‘An American Pickle’ Review: Keeping It Kosher 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z It is too self-consciously erudite to work as an introduction. Die Walk?re/The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan - review 2011-07-17T15:28:14Z The Hotel Rex is self-consciously styled after literary San Francisco in the 1920s. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z There's a rather self-consciously "bonkers" theme for the final outing: this year's show is styled like a haunted circus, replete with cackling clowns and leering carnival masks. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Big Brother 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Some are travelogues, mostly about his high-end and self-consciously “compulsive” pursuit of adding species to his many lists of the birds he’s encountered. Jonathan Franzen Despairs of a Planet Inhospitable to Birds 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s both self-consciously mannered and merrily playful — a mixture that Austen herself might find just right. The week ahead: mead-brewing classes, Chuck Close’s giant faces and, of course, SIFF! 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Classical critics disdained him as a jumped-up film composer, jazzers – players and critics alike – wrote him off as a cabaret artist, and film producers only turned to him when they wanted something self-consciously "highbrow". Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z It's a less earnest and self-consciously moral replay of Wall Street, and with none of the customary contempt for advertising and merchandising that liberal audiences take away from Death of a Salesman and Mad Men. Love & Other Drugs ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z “About all that’s missing from the self-consciously kitsch retread of ‘Clash of the Titans’ is Laurence Olivier pitching a fit in a toga,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times in April. DVDs: Olive Films Releases ?Deep Library? Films on DVD 2010-07-23T20:38:00Z Taylor’s writing is least successful when it’s most self-consciously literary. Review | With ‘Real Life,’ Brandon Taylor twists the traditional campus novel 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The German avant-garde later embraced self-consciously ugly works that sought to expose humanity’s barbarism. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z Performed under an array of mismatched lampshades, as if trying to illuminate all the nooks and crannies of an unseen life, Dan Herd's production is often frenetic and as self-consciously quirky as the text. The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle – review 2013-04-04T17:11:55Z The show is pointedly and self-consciously funny, savoring its own raucous wit, which paradoxically means that it just isn’t as funny as it should be. Review: ‘The Front Page’ Is Diverting, but Don’t Stop the Presses 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Related: The Nightmare review – self-consciously creepy glimpse at sleep paralysis Many people with sleep paralysis suffer in silence. ‘A dark presence squats on my chest’: the waking nightmare of sleep paralysis 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Though sometimes self-consciously precious, “Frances Ha” feels true to a certain time in life; it’s an oddball charmer. SIFF week 1: 10 movies to see 2013-05-16T17:52:44Z In an email, Alison Findlay, deputy chair of the British Shakespeare Association and a professor at Lancaster University, cast a more skeptical eye on the 19th-century article, calling it “almost self-consciously playful.” Alas, Poor William Shakespeare. Where Does His Skull Rest? 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z So it shouldn’t surprise that this long aborning musical version — staged in a slightly different form at the Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., last year — should be softer around the edges and more self-consciously retrospective. Review: Adding the Women’s Side to the ‘Diner’ Menu 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He is an engaging performer, but “Wow + Flutter,” which suffered from a self-consciously labored script, didn’t quite live up to the promise of an immersive, altered experience. Dance Review | 'Wow + Flutter': Lights, Gadgets and Video Create a Technological Id 2010-03-04T23:04:00Z There is, however, a case for some self-discipline, and self-consciously high standards. Are professional book reviewers better than amateurs? 2012-10-01T10:21:40Z It deliberately reveals awkwardness along with righteousness; it’s also, very self-consciously, the next step in a career. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z That may be because the comedy in the show is a grab bag, sometimes subtle, sometimes self-consciously outlandish. Television Review: ‘Go On,’ With Matthew Perry, on NBC 2012-09-10T21:51:57Z They begin awkwardly and self-consciously, as if reluctant to commit even to performing. Review: Waltzing With Love and Death in ‘Hundred Days’ 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z As Ruth Franklin observes, in a profile of the author in New York, “Give Me Your Hand” “plays with cultural constructions of female ‘blood rage,’ often in a self-consciously ironic way.” Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He was self-consciously playing the part of the friendly don, coaxing a nervous applicant through her entrance interview. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z Other than the gospel-shouting muses, drawn as five black women and given self-consciously sassy dialogue, everyone in this story was white. Review: Public Works Finds the Heroism in ‘Hercules’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Too many phrases are self-consciously poetic and tangled. Unexpectedly Pregnant, a Memoirist Finds Her Choices Limited 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The other is a self-consciously digressive meditation on the iconography of the Hollywood western.” DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z The travails of Shep’s best friend and colleague, Jackson, are no doubt meant to serve as a sort of narrative counterpoint, but there is something self-consciously contrived about his dilemmas. Books of The Times: America?s Health Care Crisis Visits Families, and Stays 2010-03-01T22:49:00Z These Obamians, as Mr. Mann somewhat awkwardly calls them, tended to think of themselves self-consciously, “as a new generation in American foreign policy.” Books of The Times: ‘The Obamians,’ by James Mann 2012-07-09T14:15:28Z It’s startling because “The Correspondence” is also thoughtful and almost self-consciously literary. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z It was the beginning of Mr. Coleman’s public career in classical music, a much more dissonant and self-consciously European-modernist body of work. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The mosaic of images is self-consciously eclectic; figures in photographs are blurred in movement. Web Site Review: The Metropolitan Museum?s New Web Site 2011-10-06T22:45:35Z He self-consciously rooted himself in an outsider's tradition, of Jewish intellectualism, equally obsessed with language and image. RB Kitaj: an obsession with revenge 2013-02-10T06:00:01Z Philadelphia is the setting for Solomon’s short, sharp new book, “The Days of Afrekete,” but her heroine has grown up, married a White man and moved north to self-consciously Bohemian Mount Airy. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The film self-consciously cushions the trim content of the play, converting anecdotal moments in the dialogue into flashbacks. ‘Small Engine Repair’ Review: Of Mechanics and Men 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Li’l Bit hunches and shuffles self-consciously or ambles around with loose, swinging limbs — every physicality a statement on her relationship to her body. ‘How I Learned to Drive’ Review: Many Miles to Go Before a Reckoning 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z When she meets Paris, the man her parents have picked for her, we see her Juliet self-consciously pulling up her posture, lifting her breastbone nervously, hoping to look “big.” Shakespeare: huge dance fan. Check out these Bard-themed dances on DVD Although he has mostly been speaking in French up to this point, he switches into self-consciously accented English to ask: "Can we 'av some keuh-fee?" Heartbreaker 2011-07-16T23:05:12Z Rendered by later artists in ways more self-consciously surreal—or, sometimes, deliberately “poetic,” not to say pathetic—the scenes from Alice become less uncanny. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Sure, there's a show-offiness to this kind of artistic slumming - a self-consciously understated scenery chewing that occurs in a story about damaged people - but that's certainly preferable to flowery exclamations of hope. Review: Cotillard stars in raw `Rust and Bone' 2012-11-20T22:54:11Z In his review of that production, Charles Isherwood called it a “self-consciously ditsy show” that “really earns that exclamation point.” A 'Disaster!' Is Coming to Broadway 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Though the songs on this album are old, they are not self-consciously so. Sir Paul McCartney drops a lovely valentine 2012-02-11T22:31:04Z He made jazz a wellspring of daring innovation and radical experimentation and self-consciously commandeered its popular and mass-marketed modes into a form of the avant-garde. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He treasures the "fussy, varicose technology" of his instrument and exploits the way it obscures his face at the very moment when he is expressing himself least self-consciously. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z The camera work appears self-consciously shaky at first but then steadies somewhat as the trailer goes on. The mysterious case of "The Girl with Dragon Tattoo" trailer 2011-05-31T12:01:00Z With its two personable, fresh-faced leads, it appears to be heading into self-consciously charming rom-com territory, and is at times somewhat clunky. Blink – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-05T15:06:30Z “Nothing is articulated or self-consciously held as tradition,” says current first violinist Joseph Lin. Juilliard String Quartet balances tradition with change 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z She also sings with a natural sound rather than a self-consciously stentorian Opera Voice, a huge asset. Review | Luminous acting, very loud singing in vivid ‘Roméo & Juliette’ 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Usually Roach strikes the right balance between casually knowledgeable and self-consciously quirky, but not always. 'Packing for Mars': Mary Roach's take on life in the void 2010-08-11T23:14:00Z As the context of Straparola's retelling is the entertainment of literate people, his version of the tale is self-consciously rustic, while straightforward ribaldry has become suggestion. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z One critic said of Schnittke's four-part work that it "summons up the mystical poetry of Russian Orthodox Church music, but it never sounds self-consciously archaic." Medieval or modern fare? Choose from Seattle's Tudor Choir and the Esoterics 2011-02-16T21:06:03Z Part of that is the strenuously precocious, self-consciously pretentious dialogue — in and of itself not a vice, and certainly accurate for the kind of teens these teens are. Review: ‘Looking For Alaska’ but Finding Talky Teens 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The story goes that Rattigan softened, at the behest of his lead actor Alfred Lunt, the portrait of a rightwing industrialist attacked by the self-consciously Hamletesque son of his widowed mistress. Less Than Kind 2011-01-24T18:09:40Z Some of the getting-to-know-you stuff in “Traces” is a little twee for my tastes, too self-consciously charming. | 'Traces': Acrobats Meet Skateboards and Basketballs (Watch Out!) 2011-08-10T02:01:08Z The whole event has become a “simulacrum,” to use Jean Baudrillard’s term, a self-consciously artificial representation of itself. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z And this is the case not simply because he's so good at what he does, but because of the type of writer that he has self-consciously turned himself into. A serious man 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z The preening and self-consciously decadent elite were never the whole of Paris, and with few exceptions — Proust and Wilde being the obvious ones — didn’t leave much of interest behind. Hanging With the Wits and Dandies of the Belle Époque 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z She is not queuing in that self-consciously starry way which would draw attention to herself, complete with oversized sunglasses and a haughty expression. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The first episode of “Graceland,” is imaginatively, if self-consciously, filmed, but it puts so much energy into image, color and soundtrack that it loses steam when it comes to character and dialogue. Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z But Nirvana was also tapping into something bigger: an emergent, far-flung world of youth culture that was proudly, at times self-consciously, “alternative.” Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Even as he was recovering from crippling depression, he had the audacity to take on, as a subject of self-consciously modernist art, the founding and life-struggle of the American nation. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Whether or not the filmmakers self-consciously borrowed from that book’s chapter set during one hallucinatory Dublin evening, Gary’s journey into this other night-town is similarly a voyage into the self. Review: In ‘ ’71,’ Young, Green and Behind Enemy Lines 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It's no wonder they can become chippy, or seek to fashion their published works into self-consciously literary artefacts. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z Not songs made for children, or the kinds of songs we self-consciously broadcast our allegiance to after we’ve developed the filters of taste, personal identity and critical perspective. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It was unclear what all the self-consciously arty symbols signified. Review: Opera Lafayette’s Potent Triumvirate of Daughter, Lover and Mother 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The self-consciously epic history series tackles the war of independence, the story of how a plucky proto-nation threw off the shackles of a bullying superpower. America: The Story of the US 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z This means avoiding self-consciously arty cooking — “cuisine” — at all costs. We’ll Always Have Paris, at Augustine 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The jacket copy for “Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel” calls her a “bohemian Eloise for our times,” billing that brings to mind a self-consciously precocious imp. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Characters do a lot of it, and self-consciously. ‘Yourself and Yours’ Review: Romance, Alcohol and a Puzzle 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Freed from the self-consciously weighty air of his recent roles, he delivers a sparky and sinister turn seemingly without care for how he might come across. Don’s Plum: the film Leonardo DiCaprio would rather forget 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z It gets self-consciously odder, agreeably and divertingly so. | 'Hanna': Daddy?s Lethal Girl Ventures Into the Big, Bad World 2011-04-07T21:24:34Z But while she draws self-consciously on doomy-holiday classics like The Comfort of Strangers and Don't Look Now, that doesn't mean the results aren't worthwhile. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-04-06T11:00:01Z There was footage of her in those days, wearing cat glasses and walking self-consciously, a picture of diffidence. Beautiful Minds and Celebrity Roast 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z The alternative to Segal's style of self-build was the kind of free-spirited hippy homes that sprung up in self-consciously alternative communities, notably in California. Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre 2010-08-16T20:30:00Z The second part, when the broken narrator puts herself back together, is less self-consciously charming, and even more beguiling. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z The Third and Fourth are more courtly and self-consciously grand. Haydn: Violin Concertos ? review 2012-02-09T21:42:00Z The totality is at once self-consciously banal and unexpectedly beautiful. Joe Grillo and Zane Lewis in Separate Shows at the Hole 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Each work has been praised for elevating the medium of television: they are all self-consciously referential of their literary potential and aspirations. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z Ultimately the film is too self-consciously irreverent for its own good. 'Suburban Gothic's' fun cast helps bring it back from the dead 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Edge of Tomorrow refreshes that familiar notion and takes it a little further, a little more consistently, and a lot more self-consciously than most films. Edge of Tomorrow review – Tom Cruise in born again blockbuster 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z As self-consciously up to date as the hit comedy show “Modern Family,” it is considerably more heavy-hearted. | 'Every Day': If It?s Not One Thing, It?s Another 2011-01-13T23:43:33Z But the self-consciously edgy formulas, and the even-cornier, prescriptive, top-down self-help books that engendered them, don’t necessarily wonder. When Did Self-Help Become Self-Care? 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Here the politicians and the newspaper are selling "the average guy", while Capra self-consciously does the same. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z Though the people it portrays are probably not themselves great readers, the world Mr. Hoffman has created for them is self-consciously literary, a meticulously mapped land of poetic coordinating points. Review: In ‘Cal in Camo,’ a Raw Welcome to Motherhood 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Look through the examples, and ask yourself how many of these self-consciously citeable sentiments actually make sense? Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z He had already published “Crazy Pavements,’’ considered the first BYT novel, and the self-consciously precocious “Twenty-Five,’’ with its first-hand snapshots of Churchill, King Constantine and Noel Coward. | Beverley Nichols 2011-01-12T14:00:17Z He cultivated the persona of a stranger in a strange land, self-consciously positioned between two cultures. Donald Richie obituary 2013-02-21T16:20:36Z Some of these verbal devices are used too self-consciously. Nicky Silver’s ‘Too Much Sun’ Stars Linda Lavin 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z It takes a Brechtian approach, self-consciously nodding to the performance as a performance. ‘Hamlet’ Review: A Dirt-Eating Danish Prince, Born to Be Wild 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Self’s prose is often arch and self-consciously choppy; he’s frequently more interested in producing eccentric rhythms than in getting anything said. Books of The Times: ‘Umbrella’ by Will Self 2013-01-17T21:22:51Z All genre fictions build, self-consciously or not, on their progenitors. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z This morning, I turned it off and the difference was incredible; the place seemed so sad; clients totally stopped talking or just self-consciously whispered. The sound of salons: France's hairdressers turn off radio in tax protest 2010-12-07T13:46:00Z The film is self-consciously mythic, and that’s why it’s poignant: it wants to be a great and timely western. Hell and High Water: why film-makers should keep it slow and simple 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z She no longer looks to be self-consciously proving herself. Review: Pianist Yuja Wang sets off fireworks of her own at the Bowl 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It is self-consciously a museum built in the spirit of the nascent “slow art” movement, which is a reaction to larger forces afoot in the art market, democratic culture and the age of Instagrammable art. Perspective | This new museum doesn’t want Instagram or crowds. Does that make it elitist? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z “One Hand, One Heart” from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” is disappointing: too somber, slow and self-consciously operatic. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Jerky opener Cough Cough may showcase them at their most self-consciously wacky, but The Peaks is at the opposite end of the spectrum, attempting the kind of stadium melancholia beloved of Elbow or Coldplay. The best albums of 2013 (so far) 2013-07-05T12:58:00Z From the earliest days of her career, Williams was self-consciously looking backward as she looked ahead. A Hidden Hero of Jazz 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Hockney's designs mediate between the 18th century and the 20th, just as the score self-consciously shuttles between Mozartian models and modernism. The Rake's Progress 2010-08-09T21:01:00Z Recent archaeological discoveries, they write, show that early humans, far from being automatons blindly moving in evolutionary lock step in response to material pressures, self-consciously experimented with “a carnival parade of political forms.” What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z The international recognition and success of the French cinema is the mark of its artistic vitality; that may be true of other countries’ movies as well, but it’s self-consciously true with France’s. A Documentary that Explains the Dearth of Innovative Young French Filmmakers 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This stiffness is exaggerated by a self-consciously intrusive authorial presence, a novelistic style that is perhaps intended to summon the spirit of 18th-century fiction. The Potter's Hand by AN Wilson – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z Photographs of him, including those in which he self-consciously staged his artistic presence, show a long, gaunt face, often with a cigarette. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Landscape gardens are the British aristocracy's great gift to the world of art, and self-consciously international in their influences. The story of British art: my 5,000 year hunt for treasure 2012-07-10T17:31:39Z Like all epics the “Aeneid” is self-consciously encyclopedic, with a barrage of names and epithets that challenge any translator. David Ferry Won the National Book Award in His 80s. In His 90s, He Has Translated Virgil. 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Nor will it be particularly shocking, since Gervais’s self-consciously provocative ain’t-I-a-stinker shtick is now so well rehearsed that you could set your clock by it. Ricky Gervais isn't the Golden Globes host we want – but the one we deserve 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z In its third incarnation, the Independent, perhaps New York’s most exclusive, self-consciously hip contemporary-art fair, continues to disdain that term. Art Review: The Independent, an ?Exhibition Forum? in Chelsea 2012-03-08T23:28:30Z Onda is an intriguing author, a genre novelist who writes neither neatly within nor self-consciously against genre conventions. A Quicksilver Mystery That Flickers, Flashes, Twists and Turns 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Style trumps substance in "Lou!" the self-consciously quirky feature version of Julien Neel's popular French comic book and animated TV series. 'Lou!' a flimsy, tedious film version of French comic book, TV show 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “I guess I have noticed that my legs have gotten more jiggly,” I said, looking down at my legs self-consciously. Resolved: A no-diet new year starts now 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z What is more disappointing is that in its self-consciously anti-stylish style, it muffles its own heartbeat: the story of young men caught in the unpredictable flux of history trying to imagine a better future. Art Review: Youth, With Hopes and Bliss Intact 2011-05-27T23:41:29Z Many are self-consciously understood as attempts to develop working prototypes in state and local “laboratories of democracy” that may be applied at regional and national scale when the right political moment occurs. Rise of the New Economy Movement 2012-05-22T12:56:00Z Jokes can be corny, but self-consciously so; almost always, they bear a vague but unmistakable stamp of something more grotesque. On ‘Beef House,’ Family Sitcoms Get the Tim and Eric Treatment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The characters move self-consciously — in the way they recline or cross their legs — and seem to traverse the distances that separate them cautiously, as if wading through a river to the other shore. Review: In Clare Barron’s ‘Shhhh,’ Staging a Memoir of the Body 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z “KIMI” self-consciously draws from an assortment of cinematic referents, including obvious touchstones like “Rear Window” and woman-in-peril-at-home thrillers like “Midnight Lace.” ‘KIMI’ Review: Sure She’s Paranoid, but Something Really Is Out There 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z This is too slight and self-consciously jokey to feel really meaningful, but its gleeful structured shambles has its place on the structured shambles of the fringe. Martin Creed: Ballet Work No 1020 2010-08-09T16:33:00Z The book’s elliptical structure self-consciously withholds information — names, meanings and motives; stray objects are introduced but not explained for hundreds of pages. Review | ‘Bridge of Clay,’ by ‘Book Thief’ author Markus Zusak, was 20 years in the making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Borrowing the popular forms of Hollywood movies, making films noirs, musicals, romances—and Hitchcockian mysteries and thrillers—the New Wave directors created a cinema of self-consciously international scope. The Book That Reinvented Hitchcock 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z No Matter the Country, Boys Will Be Boys The lines between traditional and experimental art are often sharply demarcated — or self-consciously combined — so that the present smartly comments on the past. Dance Review: No Matter the Country, Boys Will Be Boys 2010-10-20T21:31:00Z I found myself a small patch of sand and settled in, realizing, slowly, that despite the overwhelming numbers, the large mass of people wasn’t self-consciously a crowd. Your Escape Is My Escape 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z If this seems too self-consciously commercial you can still get on Radio 1; just throw in some sort of dubstep "vibe". Bob Geldof's new album is called How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. So what's the secret? 2011-02-05T00:06:00Z Tweedar is a way to detect the “twee” content in things, my own and other people’s — when things are so self-consciously arty that they’re unbearable. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The piece is touching, but too self-consciously whimsical to be truly poignant. Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:05Z His series Glee and the departed New Normal also sought to balance genuine emotion with self-consciously arch humor. FX to Produce Ryan Murphy Miniseries About O.J. Simpson, American Crime Story 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z But it was increasingly an outlier as the 20th century wore on, a remnant of an earlier kind of city-making that made less sense for self-consciously modern and car-obsessed Southern California. With Lucas Museum on the way, Natural History Museum plans another makeover 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Because the act of bondage so clearly and self-consciously is an act, with its dramatic “role playing” and “props,” it cannot be wholly faked. | Restrain Yourself 2014-02-10T17:08:11Z At times she seems self-consciously precious — and yet, she always seems real. Greta Gerwig shines in ‘Frances Ha’ 2013-05-23T20:24:33Z The duchess is as self-consciously dressed, in finery, powder and red lipstick, as the Spencers are naked. Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z Her death hits so hard because she so self-consciously drew us in, and made our pain hers and the other way around. The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Some critics found his novels portentous and self-consciously masculine. Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z “Buena Vista Social Club” was also self-consciously retro. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “Bluets” is the only book of mine that self-consciously plays with the idea of a scrapbook, I think. Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Despite their self-consciously macho image, the Black Panthers did attempt to involve women. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The album is warm, well paced, reassuring, confident and manageable in length; it’s also self-consciously naïve in feeling, floppy and weirdly distant. Playlist: New Music From Mark McGuire and Twin Sister 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z She added, in a prolix sentence that nonetheless makes its point, “Or is it actually that the sense of achievement his work self-consciously carries with it itself carries less credibility than it used to?” In Robert Lowell’s ‘Memoirs,’ Mental Illness, Creative Friends and a Takedown of Dad 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z But “What We See When We Read” is so self-consciously charming that the senses frequently rebel. ‘What We See When We Read,’ by Peter Mendelsund 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The bar keeps going up in the arena of self-consciously provocative teenage drama. Review: HBO Raises the Stakes on Teenage Transgression in ‘Euphoria’ 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z “When You Finish Saving the World” is, for better or worse, exactly the movie one would expect from the actor, writer and playwright Jesse Eisenberg: wordy, whiny and self-consciously wry. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Inspired by his Grammy category sweep, Batiste incorporated even more genres into his sound, self-consciously dismantling the stigma surrounding world music. Jon Batiste: Opening portals to new musical worlds 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The initial run of shows all opened with Parkinson, somewhat self-consciously perched on a stool, cracking topical jokes, as well as featuring a resident singer, Marion Montgomery. Michael Parkinson obituary: Setting the standard for TV talk shows 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z One self-consciously covers her mouth when eating, another flattens her stomach with “bootleg Spanx.” Is the heroine of ‘Family Lore’ predicting her own death, or does she just want a party? 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z With its tasteful trip-hop underpinning and lush swaths of strings, it’s self-consciously classy, a milieu that doesn’t quite suit her. 10 essential Sinéad O'Connor songs 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z These people, almost all of whom were nobles, formed the Russian intelligentsia: a small class of educated and very self-consciously cultured people who were at the forefront of Russian literature and artistic creation. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Its well-chosen symbols are hilariously, self-consciously, deliciously lame. Review | ‘Mrs. Davis’ will make your head explode 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Williams also has a high appreciation for a specific kind of eye-candy fashion: self-consciously defiant and flashy. Perspective | Louis Vuitton, Pharrell Williams and the loss of fashion magic 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z Ever since the defeat of Nazism, Germany has self-consciously devoted itself to promoting “peace” and integrating into a European and trans-Atlantic security order where consensus has been the byword. Germany’s Reluctance on Tanks Stems From Its History and Its Politics 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z The effect is a video that is raw and self-consciously, gleefully transgressive, which is Madonna’s favorite kind of story to tell. Perspective | Madonna’s upcoming tour will defy society’s limits on female pop stars 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Despite this effort, and the Austrian secret police, nationalism continued to spread, culminating in a large and self-consciously nationalistic movement seeking German unity. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it would be hard to find a company more self-consciously modeled, in both spirit and substance, on America’s tech giants. How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z But there are also instances — especially a heated scene between Sarah and Toni — in which it feels self-consciously theatrical. Review: Despite its cast, amnesia drama 'The Almond and the Seahorse' is very forgettable 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z By 1978, when Justice Powell wrote his opinion in Bakke, diversity had become a core value in higher education, and Harvard had been self-consciously trying to diversify itself for more than 15 years. Harvard, Asian Americans and Jews: Behind the Supreme Court's affirmative action case 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z “I just hope it doesn’t become an overly curated destination space that is self-consciously aware of its own good taste,” he said. Can $50 Million Make a Dull Brooklyn Office Park Cool? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z And rather than changing her methods, Perelman says she’s going to keep right on, thank you very much, though a little more self-consciously: “I’m just going to have a complex about it now.” Perspective | Sandwiches must be cut diagonally, and I’m not taking questions 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z He shows that citizens who self-consciously support democracy can simultaneously support undemocratic actions on a large scale when it suits their political interests — and not recognize the contradiction. Opinion | America’s democratic structure is indeed shuddering — under its own weight 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z He wrote that in their tutorials, Truss “demonstrated an unnerving ability to surprise” and was “self-consciously unconventional.” Who is Liz Truss, a shapeshifter set to be U.K.’s next prime minister? 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Some of them gleefully mug and wave; others self-consciously yank their loved ones out of the way. Review: The haunting Holocaust doc 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' finds mystery in minutiae 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z His proposals took the form of self-consciously absurd drawings. Radical pop art sculptor Claes Oldenburg dies at 93 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z The screens hang above the row of committee members who all look crisper and a bit more self-consciously groomed than usual with their blowouts and trimmed beards and clipped manes. Perspective | The president’s men and women, under interrogation 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z What starts out as a screwball “Squid Game” ultimately yields a paltry payoff in the case of “Stanleyville,” a self-consciously quirky social satire that is content to coast on its waning surface weirdness. Review: Run, don't walk, away from quirky social satire 'Stanleyville' 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Witness the self-consciously florid dialogue, sometimes poetically heightened to the point of torture. Review: Robert Eggers' mighty Viking epic 'The Northman' puts the art before the Norse 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Cain is a poetic writer, and she is self-consciously publishing “Bittersweet” in a much more emotionally raw and revelatory moment than when “Quiet” was released. Review | In a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z But as important, she has self-consciously sanded the rough edges off her persona in an effort to make herself appear more presidential and voter-friendly. A Reinvented Marine Le Pen Threatens to Upend French Elections 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z At almost three hours, director Matt Reeves’s latest iteration of the endless Batman cycle seems determined to outdo even the most self-consciously glum visions of Christopher Nolan and, more recently, Todd Phillips. Review | In joyless ‘The Batman,’ Robert Pattinson channels the vampire Edward Cullen 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The English that Marjan demands they use in class is delivered in self-consciously halting cadences and sometimes broken phrases that anyone who learns a language can relate to. In ‘English,’ the language of opportunity steers clear of cliches about the people of Iran 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Teasdale had been struggling to make a stab at a solo career as a self-consciously kooky singer-pianist. Sound of 2022: Wet Leg 'started a band for fun, now it's doing really well' 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z There is no more self-consciously moderate institution than the Church of England. Opinion | Desmond Tutu was exactly the radical moderate the world needed 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z She dressed and carried herself in a self-consciously masculine manner when she was allegedly defrauding investors, leaning into sexist assumptions about what "smart" and "capable" look like. Ghislaine Maxwell's and Elizabeth Holmes' fake feminist defenses are an insult to #MeToo 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Ahmari, a recent convert to Catholicism, is one of Vermeule’s most visible allies and has become practically synonymous with a self-consciously pugilistic right. How the American Right Fell in Love With Hungary 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z But it’s not easy to wrestle control in a play that exists so self-consciously in a state of interpretive flux. Commentary: Must Laurence Olivier's blackface Othello be banned? I showed the film and wasn't canceled 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z He ran, self-consciously, as a former management consultant who would govern on behalf of America’s makers rather than its takers. Opinion | David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don’t Want to Hear 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Some news outlets responded self-consciously by deliberately featuring the cases of missing women of color who had otherwise escape saturation coverage that missing white women had received, as if to balance accounts. Gabby Petito and one way to break media's 'missing white woman syndrome' 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Seabrook residents self-consciously joke about living on the set of “The Truman Show,” while lifelong Olympic Peninsula residents can occasionally be heard grumbling about the “Stepford Wives” vibe of the town under their breaths. Joie Des Livres brings life and culture to Seabrook, a tiny, new Olympic Peninsula beach town 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Characters mugged for the camera and self-consciously name-dropped writers such as Rainer Maria Rilke and Honoré de Balzac as well as Hollywood stars and directors. Jean-Paul Belmondo, jaunty star of New Wave classic ‘Breathless,’ dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The New York Yankees, who take corporate-management levels of pride in policing their players’ facial hair, are too self-consciously dignified for a mascot. The Mascot Whisperer 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z But he arranged the business in a self-consciously risky way, avoiding financial licensing and other measures that insulate many Bitcoin businesses from prosecution. Libertarians built a crypto mecca in New Hampshire — then Feds tore it down 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z There is no escaping the reality that Trump's Republican Party is a self-consciously and self-confidently anti-democratic, anti-immigrant party that will battle for the future of white people in a multicultural America. Why the Republicans' Big Lie works so well: A sociopathic party, and a damaged country 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z But a goofy strain of humble humanism manages to keep the self-consciously mannered house of cards from collapsing from its own pretensions. Review | Michelle Pfeiffer reigns over flawed ‘French Exit’ with mesmerizing hauteur 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z As a rising political star in the 1980s, Biden sometimes channeled the self-consciously centrist thinking that was then coming into vogue among Democrats like Gary Hart. The Biden Team Wants to Transform the Economy. Really. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Though novel and welcome, most were fatally ephemeral, even self-consciously so — stopgaps designed, like much of television before streaming, to be enjoyed and then forgotten. Most quarantine TV was forgettable. 'Staged' should go in a time capsule 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Still, like a number of other self-consciously moderate locales across America, Bucks County was not insulated from the partisan and cultural crosscurrents that defined the presidential election. As Trump Rages, Voters in a Key County Move On: ‘I’m Not Sweating It’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z A lot of postwar art that was self-consciously modern became more and more reductive, distilling experience and sensation into crystalline visions that became emptier even as they became bigger. Perspective | Inside out 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z In this lighthearted slice of bohemian life, they’re more likely to be stacked by a system intent on preserving the status quo even when it’s self-consciously pushing the boundaries. Review | ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ marks Radha Blank as not just a fresh filmmaking voice, but a wise and accomplished one too. 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z Evans later described them as "the self-consciously respectable working class". Obituary: Sir Harold Evans 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The poison gardens of our time are more self-consciously macabre. The Dual History of Poisonous Flowers 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Capitalising on the singer's down-to-earth persona, it sees her performing the song in her bedroom, surrounded by Blu-tacked photos of her best friends, and dancing self-consciously outside the front door. Can Kenzie Ziegler go from child star to pop star? 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z In court, prosecutors described the organisation as "self-consciously, explicitly malevolent" and the "most prominent and recognisable link between Satanism and the extreme right". The Nazi Satanist group linked to US soldier's arrest 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z At the center of the furor is Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons, and a man who has built a whole career on cultivating a self-consciously old-fashioned demeanor. They’re Calling It the ‘Conga Line Parliament’ 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Even alone in front of my TV with “Ring Fit Adventure” I am self-consciously aware that I am moving like a weirdo in my family room. If it wasn't for virtual reality, I would not be getting exercise right now 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Not everything on Bowie’s self-consciously heavy album The Man Who Sold the World works, but its opening track is remarkable. David Bowie's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Instead, the series, from Carlos Monte and Darío Madrona, self-consciously deploys genre tropes and familiar archetypes to create one of the most addictive teen dramas around. Netflix's 'Élite' is the addictively horny teen drama you need right now 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In court, prosecutors described the organisation as "self-consciously, explicitly malevolent" and the "most prominent and recognisable link between Satanism and the extreme right." Call to outlaw UK Nazi Satanist group 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But now a strange satirical spirit appears to be at play, self-consciously looking back to the debaucheries of antiquity with a knowing eye. When Did Gluttony Become So Glamorous? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z There is no similar diversity in the Republican Party’s trusted informational ecosystem, which is heavily built around self-consciously conservative news sources. Opinion | Why Democrats Still Have to Appeal to the Center, but Republicans Don’t 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The first wave of rediscovery had ukases and prohibitions—Alec Wilder wrote off essentially all of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and almost everything self-consciously “jazzy” in Gershwin. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Kevin laughs and tells me, a little self-consciously, that he's sure the sheep are more intelligent than most and certainly more devious. The seaweed-eating sheep that belch in a good way 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z It differed from earlier forms of conservatism by being a self-consciously intellectual movement that emphasized a robust form of American triumphalism and leadership, rather than focusing on isolationism and the threat of communism. Gertrude Himmelfarb, scholar of Victorian era and neoconservative thinker, dies at 97 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “So the media presented reflects their own understanding of religious matters, and they are self-consciously trying to promote this.” Losing our religion: Hollywood reluctant to make faith-based movies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Their black squiggles also echo Maszkiewicz’s intuitive lines but feel more self-consciously “arty” and a little arid. Art-hopping in L.A.'s Arlington Heights: A guide to a less-beaten gallery path 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z In Mary Martin’s first showstopper song, “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” the melisma in the middle section is self-consciously, even uncomfortably, Eastern European-sounding in order to indicate that “Daddy” is Jewish. The Pleasure and Pain of Being Cole Porter 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The moral valence of their actions weighs heavily on the characters, who don’t look defiant or self-consciously cool throughout the proceedings so much as aggrieved and deeply ambivalent. Review | ‘Queen & Slim’ is another tale of outlaws on the run, but also much more than that 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Introducing the throbbing “Liar” at the Apple event, she said she’d “wanted to make a sex song,” then giggled self-consciously. Camila Cabello is ready to talk about sex, love and Shawn Mendes 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But they were middle-aged now, self-consciously aware, as they performed their jokey girlishness, of the heavy shelves of bosom under their nightdresses. “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z For all of Sorrentino’s prodigious gifts as a scenarist, “Loro” is a disturbing movie, for all the wrong reasons and, despite its self-consciously arty pretensions, a breathtakingly callow one. Review | Silvio Berlusconi gets skewered — bloodlessly — in the silly, surreal satire ‘Loro’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “They cannot easily cross class lines to organize groups above or below their own station. They are caught in the same status traps as everyone else, even if they react self-consciously.” ‘The United States is broken as hell’ – the division in politics over race and class 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z This, too, seems more purposeful, or at least more self-consciously executed, than many of Trump’s critics would allow. Trump’s Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z This book is self-consciously shaped by, and susceptible to, its own account of how we read now. Reader, I Googled It 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Though the film takes place in a bizarre version of Tokyo where everyone speaks American-accented English, writer, director, producer Sherman self-consciously borrows from blaxploitation from the outset, and it’s obvious he doesn’t get it. Review: Faux edgy, Tokyo-set thriller ‘She’s Just a Shadow’ manages to offend and bore 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Some adult fans have reacted aggressively to the more self-consciously woke bits of the Avengers franchise, questioning whether attempts to generate more diverse heroes would be somehow emasculating for boys in search of role models. Spider-Man is showing our boys that normal guys can be heroes too | Gaby Hinsliff 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Amy is openly gay, Molly a bit heavier than the social ideal, but they are loud, proud, self-consciously modern women. ‘Booksmart,’ ‘Euphoria’ and why we can’t stop going back to high school 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z They both did things that would make the audience gasp self-consciously. 'I even loved his Twankey': Dench, Hopkins, Mirren and more on Ian McKellen at 80 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z Added to the mix is Clive Palmer, a businessman who rather self-consciously mimics Donald Trump with the slogan "Make Australia Great". The weird, wild and disaffected politics of Queensland 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z "I'm so used to travelling with a whole army of helpers and people around me that I forgot my credit cards," the Canadian singer says, giggling self-consciously. Carly Rae: Pop's queen of over-thinking 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z As a self-consciously global enterprise, the Red Bull Music Academy helped nurture a cosmopolitan ethos within dance music. Sublime Frequencies’ Vision of What World Music Means Today 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z From the manifesto pamphlet forward, the Bauhaus self-consciously cultivated itself as a brand, with a vaguely occult-looking logo and a raft of promotional ephemera. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Jarrett depicts herself as a race woman, self-consciously concerned with advancing the fortunes of black Americans. Review | Valerie Jarrett’s winding path to the Obamas’ inner circle 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Interestingly, like Lonergan’s debut, “You Can Count on Me,” Jones’s “Diane” was executive produced by Martin Scorsese — an impressive vote of confidence from a far more splashy, self-consciously expressive artist. Review | ‘Diane’ is rooted in realism right down to its sturdy, stoic heroine 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Quietly, self-consciously, as if he were guilty of something, he said to Frank and Michelle, “I guess I’m going to need your help managing my situation.” ‘Let’s hope they finally got this fixed’: For federal workers, relief, but still some trepidation 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z A chain of self-consciously youthful and riotous pubs called It’s A Scream used Munch’s painting as an advert for booze and bad behaviour. How The Scream became the ultimate image for our political age 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Buddy’s rather self-consciously corny act is classic, old-fashioned Catskills-style stand-up with a modern sensibility. Review: Richard Dreyfuss and Chevy Chase team for throwback buddy comedy ‘The Last Laugh’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It remains a talky show, if a less self-consciously eloquent one; Wayne is a man of few words and Roland only a few more. Review: HBO's much-debated 'True Detective' returns strong — with a few advisories 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z “Destroyer” isn’t self-consciously beautiful, she explained, because it hadn’t “earned” it. The Filmmaker Karyn Kusama Explores the Many Dimensions of Women’s Rage 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z It’s focused on casual players; the whole thing is self-consciously silly. Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z “Aqua” is noticeably — even self-consciously — hesitant about its super-heroics, especially by comparison with the flat-out costumed craziness of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. This weekend, stream a different version of Aquaman from home 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The passionate, self-consciously ironic spirit animating “Compass” justifies its propensity to ramble on about, say, Wagner’s similarity to Iranian theocrats. When Michelangelo Went to Constantinople 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But the show also dared to do what “Serial” did not: arrange the material into a shapely, self-consciously literary form. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z At the same time, self-consciously rejecting even harmless or positive ingrained ideas about women for the sake of doing so feels ridiculous, maybe even regressive. Gillian Flynn Peers Into the Dark Side of Femininity 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z That might be the public rhetoric, but it’s not the reality, because at present somewhere upwards of half of whites are self-consciously thinking of themselves as white. Race, class and justice: After the midterms, a new way forward for Democrats 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The authenticity argument is one I might be more inclined to buy from a documentary or a more rigorous piece of realism, which “Mid90s,” for all its self-consciously gritty texture, is not. Review: Jonah Hill's directing debut, 'Mid90s,' is a sweet but fuzzy-headed skater nostalgia trip - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In contrast to her later books, the tone and style were lawyerly and self-consciously serious. Ann Coulter believes the left has 'lost its mind'. Should we listen? 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Instead, as in “A Cabin in the Woods,” Goddard has assembled genre archetypes on a self-consciously movie set location for an elaborate morality test. Review: In ‘Bad Times at the El Royale,’ a motel’s mysteries 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z At some points in its history, jazz might have seemed elitist, self-consciously hip, a music you might need to “study” to understand. Just call it good music: Jazz for everyone | Provided by Earshot Jazz 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z They jived neatly, but self-consciously, giving quick glances at each other, and towards the police over the road. Observer archive - Rock Around the Clock, 16 September 1956 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z All the teenager knew was that he was 5 feet 6 and self-consciously awkward. With encouragement from dad, Shorewood’s Blake Snell grows into MLB All-Star 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z With hindsight, however, Street Fighter: The Movie is a charmingly camp and self-consciously silly action flick, offering a fast-cut, colourful and unmistakably early-90s take on video game culture. 'I punched him so hard he cried': inside the Street Fighter movie 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z |
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