How to Use self-conscious in a Sentence

self-conscious

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• This piece, like the hand-cuff bag, feels self-conscious in a way the rest of the looks don’t.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2024
• This is not just a self-conscious crime comedy, per se.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2024
• Part of the problem is that its creators, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, are so self-conscious.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
• 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
• There was this kind of deeply self-conscious, rather thin bravado that was really quite acute.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Again, this could be all down to the writing, to the show’s expanding storylines and self-conscious frippery.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 21 May 2024
• 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
• The goal was to be able to wear backless dresses or go out and not have to feel self-conscious about my boobs and my cleavage but still look womanly.
  — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
• The years ticked by, and more self-conscious things popped out of my body diverting the attention away from my follicles.
  — Stacey Wallenstein, Flow Space, 27 June 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
• If there are things that these youths feel self-conscious about doing in front of a camera, there’s little evidence of that reserve here.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The film’s intimate sense of joy is not a deflection against the truth of what the Johnsons are facing, but a self-conscious, honest expression of it.
  — Eric Farwell and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 17 Aug. 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
• This can affect your ability to move, complete daily tasks, and feel more self-conscious about your body image.
  — Joy Emeh, Health, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• To Bryan, Scopes’s choice to teach Darwin was a self-conscious affront to the moral order—and any meaningful future for humanity.
  — John Kaag, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024