Word: consciously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kistiakowsky's office one afternoon in October, 1980. I felt very self-conscious about my simplistic understanding of the arms race and hoped at best to be able to ask him a few fairly intelligent questions. I also wanted to seek his advice on how I could help others to learn about the nuclear arms issue. By this time I had learned a little more about him. I knew that he was a professor of chemistry emeritus. He had helped to build the atom bomb and in 1959 became the science adviser to President Eisenhower. Later he left Washington, becoming...
...week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used to appear in, and she was in it. Newman, who is self-conscious about his bony legs, was so abashed that, as he points out now with some glee, he refused to look at the camera. When what is referred to in Newman family lore as the Worst Picture Ever Made played in a weeklong run on television in Los Angeles some years...
...Hustler (1961): I had occasion to see some segments of it recently. Again, very conscious of working too hard, which comes partly from lack of faith in your own talent and lack of faith that just doing it in itself is all the audience requires...
...with a practical political sense, an almost sly awareness of other men's motives and how they might be levered to advance his own cause, and, above all, a sense of self-irony. He seems always to be keeping a wary, testing eye on himself, conscious of his own failings, watchful that he not succumb to the vanity of power. Kingsley's performance suggests that Gandhi's ability to lead derived not from the fact that he was different from other men but from his awareness that he was so like them, with only the force...
Though Cowan expresses wonder at each step of these changes, the great strength of An Orphan in History is his refusal to sound defensive or self-conscious about regaining his faith. The joy and conviction with which he writes are evident...