Works by self-consciously artistic contemporary photographers varied widely. |
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The crowd was pretty reticent for the first half of the set, with only myself and Joel dancing, somewhat self-consciously. |
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Her conceptual gestures are hybrids, as dependent on beat-generation strategies and Japanese aesthetics as they are self-consciously futuristic. |
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Such a setting fits well with today's self-consciously international large-scale exhibitions. |
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An experimental filmmaker, he was regarded as New Zealand's first self-consciously conceptual artist. |
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This part feels totally unscripted as the young cadets self-consciously address the cameras. |
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It was a literary movement that promoted a more self-consciously Scottish stance. |
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The post-war years produced a mood of existential disgust, expressed through an idiom of self-consciously ugly realism. |
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They eyed each other, looked away self-consciously, then stole sideways glances at one another once more. |
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He struggled self-consciously through his polite talk in French rather than let loose his usual machine-gun diatribes. |
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His care for His creation. We are becoming more reflexively or self-consciously aware of this stewardship today. |
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The literature has not self-consciously attempted to model the public service as an institution and the ways in which it changes over time. |
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It is, of course, a wholly empty exchange in the sense that writing becomes self-consciously excessive in its incompletion. |
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We all paused, turned to look at Sara in shock as she tugged self-consciously at a lock of pale hair. |
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Her overconfidence diminishes both her freewheeling approach and self-consciously feminine subject matter. |
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Cullen's creative work is often effetely comfortable and self-consciously vulnerable. |
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The dialogue is self-consciously clunky, the characters are stereotypes and each section is fronted with a pretentiously redundant quotation. |
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He self-consciously drew himself up, and went out to stand in the entrance way. |
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And then I self-consciously drew myself up and stood, a little embarrassed at being in a compromising position. |
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In a sense, a Canadian film is under pressure to be self-consciously Canadian by these regulations. |
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It's part and parcel of what has tarnished the image of the Canadian film that it can often be quite self-consciously Canadian. |
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Sometimes indirectly, sometimes a bit clumsily, sometimes rather self-consciously. |
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Scott is the Roger Dodger of the film's title, a shark, a venomous, unpleasant, conniving, self-consciously chauvinistic pig. |
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I pulled my arm under the sheets self-consciously, shrugging when he looked at me inquisitively. He probably thought I had been cutting. |
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That the other characters appear in a pantomimic assortment of costumes will add to a very self-consciously theatrical show. |
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It seems to me he was too self-consciously imitative of his patrons in the Georgian poetry movement. |
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The real winner is Lost in Translation, mostly for distinguishing itself in this list as being self-consciously cinematic. |
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Wagner carefully and self-consciously based his design on those principles, while aestheticizing them, by invoking the ideal community. |
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In some spots, these self-consciously gestural strokes have been airbrushed blue. |
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In contrast to what he sees as the dry formalism of his forbears, Morrison offers a self-consciously passionate response to the play. |
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The film is self-consciously artsy and becomes a little trying at 63 minutes. |
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He suggests that the artificiality of his faeries is also self-consciously that of Spenser's panegyric poetry. |
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Quite frankly, I would have loved to see a self-consciously low-rent c-movie. |
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Danny's hands flew to his head self-consciously, the shrill ringing of his phone saving Alyssa from a tart response. |
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She sat at the piano self-consciously, and slowly began to play. |
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He tightens his dressing gown about him and looks around self-consciously. |
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This was a comely, courteous kind of feminism, from an Asian Buddhist perspective, seen lightly, self-consciously, through artfully arrayed mirrors. |
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He is the phantom actor behind the self-consciously performative tics of his otherwise two-dimensional characters. |
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She may write self-consciously from time to time, as do most debut novelists, but more often her prose has an individual, slangily poetic zip. |
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The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough. |
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He ran his thumb down the cleft of his chin, self-consciously, over a small vertical shaving nick on the cleft of his chin. |
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When Lindsay Lohan, a guest star on the series, self-consciously swanned by and guests rubbernecked, Mr. Emmich barely noticed. |
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Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me. |
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His work continues to present a double vision, one touched by both calamity and glee, and whose self-consciously public language underscores its highly personal timbre. |
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But they do have an implicit and unique perspective on the universe, and spirituality is living self-consciously and mindfully with this sort of perspective in mind. |
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I ran a hand through my tangled, matted black hair self-consciously. |
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Now, it's not like the sound has changed that much, but this album certainly is flowerier, more baroque, more self-consciously showy than anything they've done so far. |
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Firstly, the book offers a heterodox alternative to orthodox neo-classical thought whilst also describing very self-consciously the core of neo-classical thinking. |
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And it argues that in the 1790s changes in the popular organisation and mobilisation of crowds freed them from elite control and made their politics more self-consciously democratic. |
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Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability. |
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I want to remember him in particular as someone who self-consciously wrestled as a person of faith with the many difficult questions that people of religious orientation have to deal with in politics. |
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Asked if he foresees the need for penalties when Tuncay and Co take on the Czechs, the teenager smiles self-consciously before his father Nedim, apologising for his son's shyness, comes to the rescue. |
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The atmosphere was self-consciously quaint. |
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You have to ask yourself whether an illiterate country girl, ignorant in city ways, would have such a self-consciously literary mode of expressing herself. |
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In this casual setting, the girls strike self-consciously formal poses, staring directly at the camera, unsmiling. |
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He self-consciously tries to ape the mannerisms of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. |
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Suspense, of which Hitchcock remains the acknowledged master, is merely the form of cinema that focuses most self-consciously on this general truth of cinematic experience. |
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This part feels totally unscripted as the young cadets self-consciously address the cameras, with commentary from their moms occasionally thrown in. |
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Intermittent snippets of conversation suggesting rehearsal out-takes rang with a self-consciously clever sitcom snap, ultimately not terribly enlightening or deep. |
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It engages historians, philosophers, scientists and the educated lay public alike in a discussion that self-consciously resists the temptation of polemics. |
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Her performers employ alienation techniques, undercutting the spectator's sympathetic identification by presenting their role-playing as self-consciously theatrical. |
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Less rewarding are four portraits of youths executed in an awkward mixture of self-consciously competent realism and halfhearted Expressionism. |
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Important as the novel clearly is, it clunked along rather leadenly and self-consciously at times. |
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Then, the bow tie – staidly elegant for evening, self-consciously eccentric for day, never acceptable in the bright hues and garish patterns so often sported. |
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This was an arthouse project directed by a sophisticated New Yorker and shot self-consciously in black and white, but set in a roughhouse, provincial town in Texas. |
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An aged crone, with chin almost touching nose, hospitably held out her hand, the young monk self-consciously proffered his bowl and a generous helping of tea and tsampa was ladled in. |
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In this self-consciously existential journey, Keitel's character is required be more than a meat puppet whose mouthed English is dubbed into Greek. |
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That Laborit is self-consciously in the discourse is amusingly emphasized by the fact that he, unlike the fictional characters, can hear what the speakerine says about him. |
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The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views. |
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