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1685 J. Turner Disc. conc. Messias Ep. Ded. p. cxxx That Divine life, which is indivisibly, inseparably and self-consciously the same, through all the parts of the Divine substance or space.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 68 A genial understanding directing self-consciously a power and an implicit wisdom deeper even than our consciousness.

1874 J. Hinton Select. from MSS III. 227 As ever in the intellectual world things are first done unconsciously, and then self-consciously.

1940 Times 19 July 6/6 Mr Steinbeck's novel..is a deliberately and self-consciously epic account of the agrarian revolution in America.

1967 N. Podhoretz Making It i. ii. 30 He was..tolerant of any modality of Jewish existence so long as it remained identifiably and self-consciously Jewish.

1994 Face Oct. 153/2 Pulp Fiction sets itself up as a self-consciously more ‘mature’ film.

2011 S. Mukherjee Emperor of All Maladies 200 A consortium of academic hospitals modeled self-consciously after Zubrod's leukemia group.

1860 Sat. Rev. 29 Dec. 838/2 They move stiffly and self-consciously.

1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky ix. xvi. 291 ‘What do you think of this number, Mr. So-and-so?’ I would say, self-consciously, to a merchant, as I dangled a garment in front of him.

1952 Life 25 Feb. 132 (caption) Giggling and fidgeting, early arriving guests wait self-consciously for party to begin.

1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 120 Myra smiled self-consciously. She wanted him to think she'd come straight from work, or maybe she was passing, but he knew she had taken some trouble with her appearance.

2013 M. Zailckas Mother, Mother (2014) 150 ‘We have the same haircut. It's kind of tripping me out.’ ‘Oh.’ Violet reached, self-consciously, for her scalp.