But that is not before Scarlett has lovingly fed Mammy broth, as a form of highly self-conscious racial redress.

The camera does not intrude on real life because real life - as long as two or more people are present - is itself a highly self-conscious performance.

Critics have seen the poems a highly self-conscious and extremely playful specimens of the elegiac genre.

Empowered is a young blonde woman who is highly self-conscious about her figure, and has other self-esteem issues.

On the other hand, the highly self-conscious line drawings, which avoid the issue of pictorial background altogether, are wonderful.

Without a powerful central vision to drive it, "Miracolo" cracks into a mosaic of highly self-conscious little tableaux, each thought out to a fault.

Mr. McGuane is a highly self-conscious literary grandson of Ernest Hemingway.

There's something highly self-conscious about Ry's sense of style.

It does, however, prepare the visitor for an encounter with Vertu's specialized and highly self-conscious vocabulary of shopping.

In general, they are short, quiet and highly self-conscious affairs with few actors, often just one, speaking straight at the audience.