What is "self-consciously"

Usage examples of "self-consciously".

The talking had stopped, and the men sat self-consciously in silence, fidgeting with cigarettes and coffee cups.

As he drove, now, down Lad-broke Grove toward Holland Park, feeling self-consciously sober and clandestine, Richard remembered what he said, when the three rozzers came crunching out to greet him.

Noticing that he had combed his hair and rolled down the sleeves of his shirt, Kate self-consciously pushed a strand of hair behind her ear and nodded.

Baseball nourishes eccentricity and big league bullpens have seen their share of self-consciously colorful oddballs.

So the tenure-jockeys and critics who were hailing this millennial new Orthochromatic Neorealism thing as the real new avant-garde thing were getting tenure by blasting Dick and Godbout and the flying Snow Brothers and The Stork for trying to be avant-garde, when really they were self-consciously trying to be more like après-garde.

Shadow of Ashland plays it very differently, almost self-consciously ignoring those hooks in favor of focusing on Leo's emotional interior.

Chanu moved self-consciously through the bar, trying not to bump into the couples making out, or the Klix dealers or the huddled Survs shooting Klix into their infusion cables.

Self-consciously, she prettied her hair and ran a hand over her dress.

She damps her enthusiasm self-consciously, her implants hungrily sequestrating surplus neurotransmitter molecules floating around her synapses before reuptake sets in: it doesn't do to get too excited in free flight.

She frowned at a sight unseen by the rest of them, glanced over her shoulder as if looking at someone in the crowd, then rubbed her bulbous nose self-consciously.

He looked down and self-consciously brushed at his clean white admiral's uniform.