The two other Hall of Fame writers, Darwin and Wind, were more self-consciously literary than Jenkins.
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Self-consciously stylish, it fronts Ipanema beach and has a much-touted seafood restaurant and bar.
Not that there's any point in sermonizing about such a self-consciously anarchic celebration of adolescent hedonism.
And Tesco is not the first multinational to buy into a self-consciously cool, quirky and independent-sounding brand.
Yet while some critics praise Mr Marsalis's achievement, others reject it as too self-consciously rooted in the past.
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The girl beside him cracked a trace of a smile too, but looked away self-consciously when she saw me notice.
Anna Netrebko, who sang the role of Anne Boleyn, is unquestionably a star, but her solo turns were self-consciously poised.
Because they aim for a global audience, Hollywood theme parks tend to be spectacular but self-consciously inoffensive to all nationalities.
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Mr Cameron struck a self-consciously upbeat tone during much of the speech as he invoked what he called "the British spirit".
That first effort was self-consciously hip, a place to hang, chat and read about graffiti "art" and South African street styles.
The war in Iraq was inconceivable deprived of its self-consciously historic character.
David Cameron described the EU in language which he knew would make tomorrow's headlines and would resonate with those he called self-consciously "we sceptics".
Its self-consciously surreal libretto by Luisa Costa Gomes includes arias in Portuguese and a spoken part in English for the elegantly reserved dancer, Lucinda Childs.
We were the first people to self-consciously define ourselves at Mt.
The change in emphasis has been attributed to the rise of that much-maligned archetype, the hipster - the young urban bohemian, attired in self-consciously quirky thrift-store clothes.
The most pointless show of all is the self-consciously "clever" game show, usually involving remarkable feats of spelling and mathematical wizardry, that offers no prize at all.
Maybe -- if we're being picky -- this is all too self-consciously clever to be truly scary on the visceral, soul-gnawing level of the most unforgettable horror films.
"Tracks" travels the road not taken in the Boss's dramatic 25 year trajectory from bar-band poet to 12-cylindered mega-stardom ... and then back to self-consciously quieter solo ruminations.
Diaz, for some reason, is repeatedly drawn to self-consciously grotesque little projects that usually don't accomplish much of anything at all, but make a huge mess while not accomplishing it.
Nor does she stoop to exaggeration, not even for a moment: Everybody onstage behaves like a real person, and the plot twists are allowed to happen rather than being self-consciously detonated.
Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?
At times, when he spoke, he felt as if a kind of mental wind were blowing his thoughts back at him, forcing him to self-consciously order his syntax as he pushed words out.
But, mention crowd numbers to self-consciously eccentric Portlanders (who usually draw around 20, 000), and they will argue that, what they lack in numbers, they make up for in noise, passion and a commendable community outreach programme.
Their grimaces are over the top, self-consciously ludicrous.
That book slick, dead-pan, laced with a great deal of North-of-England vernacular, and aggressively opposed to any kind of smooth, self-consciously literary English came as a breath of fresh air amid a great deal of worthy fustian.
Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.
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They are like the super-smart, super-pretty, overachieving big sister who gets into Stanford while the men have looked, at times, like the gawky, pimply, teenage little brother, slouching his way self-consciously through the halls of a high school.
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Well, here was a pageant, and on my first night in Florence: the 16th-century Palazzo Budini Gattai, with its ordered gardens, rib-vaulted loggia and towering mirrors that reflected and rebathed the self-consciously preening partygoers in flattering golden light.
Reforms undertaken partly to meet demands for EU membership have shifted power from threat-obsessed generals to civilian institutions, and to a new, more self-consciously Muslim elite rooted in Anatolia rather than Istanbul, Turkey's Western-looking commercial and intellectual capital.
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