How to Use self-conscious in a Sentence

self-conscious

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• This isn’t the first time I have been told that some tall individuals are self-conscious about it.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 28 Feb. 2023
• And the spike in virtual meetings also seems to be here to stay, leaving some of us more self-conscious about our necks.
  — Deanna Pai, Women's Health, 11 Apr. 2023
• There's charm to Marlowe's self-conscious retro agenda.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• There’s more heft in that gesture than in any of Pi’s more self-conscious moralizing.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• Poor Joey, standing shirtless in front of his harem, is feeling a little self-conscious.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
• Zendaya trained for three months, but confessed to feeling self-conscious on set about her playing skills.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Aug. 2023
• Inside the ceremonies, the audiences are tough: self-conscious, nervous and, as the night unfolds and more of them lose, in a souring mood.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• That’s summed up by the highly self-conscious curtain call in which absolutely no-one smiles.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Feeling self-conscious when your kids are in awe of their friends with big houses and shiny new toys is natural and relatable.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• Every year, the kids got more serious about the plays, more ambitious but also more self-conscious.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
• For Blum, this has meant a self-conscious climb into American middle-class hide-a-bed comfort.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• So far, Malone has stood the test of time, morphing from a vapid, clout-chasing rapper to a self-conscious acoustic rock star.
  — Joshua Medintz, The Enquirer, 10 July 2023
• During an interview with Vogue in January 2023, the Black Widow actress said she was raised to not be self-conscious of her body.
  — Ariana Quihuiz, Peoplemag, 2 Mar. 2024
• Quite possibly the darkest club on the Beach, good news for those who are self-conscious about their lack of rhythm or aren’t quite satisfied with that ambitious new ‘do.
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2024
• As such, the 1991 play holds up much better today than many of Simon’s more self-conscious domestic dramedies.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
• To be garish and to be ridiculed were twin fates that Woolf, too self-conscious to feel comfortable traveling on public transport, was anxious to avoid.
  — Ruth Scurr, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• In the cover story, Sheeran opens up about being self-conscious and bad habit of comparing himself to other male artists.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• Suddenly self-conscious, Jem appears to shrink into herself, like Eve in the Garden of Eden, discovering the shame of her own body.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 May 2023
• This self-conscious yet unapologetic embrace of the film’s, er, rough edges is one of its charms, which are modest but not negligible.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• His stylistic choices can be spot-on or self-conscious in their artifice, but his debut feature reveals a talent to watch.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• For a wealthy, handsome, globe-trotting athlete, Mr. Sargeant can be soft-spoken and endearingly self-conscious.
  — Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• The main ambition of the creative vérité documentary is a quality of behavior that is un-self-conscious.
  — Robert Ito Justin J Wee, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• The Harlem Renaissance was an urban phenomenon, and its leaders were distinctly self-conscious about the city as a site of creative exchange.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• But too often, beneath Rylance’s work and the production pyrotechnics, there is too little to hold on to beyond the retelling of a story and the script’s self-conscious announcements about the resonance of its ideas.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 13 July 2023
• That mingling of high and low society, penthouse and pavement, was a distinguishing mark of the surrounding scene, where there was a self-conscious glorying in things sleazy.
  — Ian Penman, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The story follows a girl with auditory impairment who dreams of joining her school’s soccer team but is self-conscious about her hearing aids.
  — Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• With its knowing style that plays on the tropes of horror movies as a self-conscious aspect of its own storytelling, the series has earned a dedicated fan base among horror aficionados.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• Shiv rushes away, defeated and self-conscious, as guests celebrate.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
• These discussions around weight can be really fraught, especially in people who feel self-conscious about their weight or have poor body image.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• Jake Gyllenhaal is the type of movie star who tends toward two speeds: leading man with haunted look and solid jaw, and wonderfully self-conscious eccentric.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024