As a teen, she became self-conscious about her teeth which were not aligned correctly.
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The key to lifelong learning is to be self-conscious about keeping these matters top-of-mind for students.
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In Davidson C, Clementi practiced his violin, despite being self-conscious about filling the corridor with sound.
They sat over bowls of chili in a green booth downtown, William self-conscious in his suit.
Carr believes that both of those features make writers self-conscious and hurt their writing.
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She was too weak from the treatment and felt too self-conscious appearing before the class.
The work is overtly experimental, making the process of reading as self-conscious as the comics themselves.
Western businessmen tend to find Ukraine relatively cosmopolitan and tolerant, compared with self-conscious and prickly Russia.
But, you know, I had tons of friends there, so I didn't feel the least bit self-conscious.
Occasionally self-conscious, this is the frankest depiction yet of the pain and personal liberation the commission has wrought.
He grew up self-conscious about excess weight and felt like he couldn't keep up with the other kids.
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In this era of self-conscious foraging and mad-scientist dining, simplicity can seem like the biggest luxury of all.
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Someone may also purposefully stand too close in order to make the other person feel self-conscious or insecure.
"The last thing a self-conscious person wants is to get up and feel like they are failing, " she says.
Goodman says The Hold Steady are very self-conscious, which can be alienating to people who don't get the joke.
On the other hand, linguistic associations with "self- conscious" are almost universally negative.
"Rushdie liberated the Indian writer from propagandist stuff and self-conscious writing, " says Khushwant Singh, one of India's best-known authors.
And if you're special, why should you be self-conscious about being on-camera?
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It begins with a watered-down, self-conscious echo of the Declaration of Independence in its cry for less intrusive federal government.
At first, "you have that spotlight effect, because you think everybody's staring at you, because you're very self-conscious, " Walton said.
Fashion's Night Out, which took place last night in New York and across the world, is not for the self-conscious.
Shot in muted, muddy browns and with a jaunty ragtime score by Randy Newman, "Leatherheads" is artfully constructed but tediously self-conscious.
But they should brace themselves they are about to be subjected to a barrage of self-conscious hipness from the happening Blair government.
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The lucky half who escaped that fate are a group apart, although they have not formed a self-conscious, American-style black middle class.
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Trying to look casual, he got his fingers inside it and, with a self-conscious flourish, took out some pages of sheet music.
And they star in his ads, modeling the fashions with a self-conscious slacker ennui and the latest hairdo: spiky, streaked or both.
While Morgan might be feeling a little self-conscious on the tele, his wit and journalist instincts make him a premier Twitterato.
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The self-conscious poses of the characters seem meant to undercut easy interpretation.
She was self-conscious about how she looked and sounded when she ran.
The flaws of this acutely self-conscious 1970 road picture grow more obvious with every passing year, but so does its passion and eloquence.
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