How to Use self-aware in a Sentence

self-aware

adjective

• By far the most playful and self-aware entry in the stop canon.
  — Jessica Gentile, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2023
• So there were tenfold more self-aware lines than what’s in the movie.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• And some of them will be self-aware call-outs to the history of the Fox X-Men movies.
  — EW.com, 2 July 2024
• The game is deeply self-aware and packed with crypto Easter eggs.
  — Jeff Wilser, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2024
• This is the kind of self-aware fan fodder that, in lesser films, might feel tired.
  — Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
• The Internet seemed to take to the ironic and self-aware tone of Barbie.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 25 July 2023
• And Spears is more self-aware than most have given her credit for over the years.
  — TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
• The kind of thing other celebrities might hide away (or refuse to own in the first place), these are kitschy, fun, and self-aware.
  — Angela Serratore, Curbed, 3 Nov. 2023
• Are there any good strategies for being more self-aware in the moment?
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
• The show is also self-aware enough to zing a certain over-the-topness inherent in the genre.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
• Rob Lowe's son John Owen Lowe is a self-aware nepotism baby.
  — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2023
• As on much of the album, Grande is self-aware enough to figure out her own role in the drama and adds a valuable touch to the song.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
• Massachusetts Catholic, lawyer with a lean-in vibe, but self-aware about it—the right kind of person for him.
  — Ellyn Gaydos, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
• And not just self-aware, but aware of the bigger picture surrounding the issue.
  — Jessica Passman, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
• Be self-aware — or else others might need to wake you up from your obsession.
  — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• The obvious answer is that men will need to become more self-aware.
  — Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• The actor has been on a (self-aware) apology tour ever since.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 24 July 2024
• The person who is rebounding needs to be two things: self-aware and willing to put in the emotional work to leave their past in the past.
  — Megan Schaltegger, Women's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Before they’re asked to leave, though, directors can also be self-aware enough to know when to quit.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
• And then have director Max Minghella mix it all up into a 100-minute self-aware genre and genre-bending mashup of the scary, the thrilling, the funny, and the wild.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2024
• Well’s most forthright (and self-aware) lyrics about being distracted by the shiny trappings of fame.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2024
• The final ingredient is a self-aware sense of humor that Britons love.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023
• Research shows that bees are self-aware and may even have a primitive form of consciousness.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• The Big Cigar is both a depiction of that fraught affinity and a cannily self-aware product of it.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 30 May 2024
• Anytime Leo’s done it, it’s been completely self-aware and joking.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2024
• That approach both exemplified his trust while helping the girls become more self-aware on the pitch.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2023
• While there’s plenty of humor in this show, there’s also deep pain in the brutally self-aware story.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2023
• She’s found some self-aware, sensitive souls beneath the don’t-mess-with-me bluster of many of the rappers she’s interviewed.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• All of this is presented in a heady mix of self-aware jokes and elaborate CGI (the film mostly amounts to two actors shot against greenscreen).
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• Adolescents tend to be much more self-aware and more sensitive to being judged by others than adults are.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024