Nathan jingled the keys in a self-conscious manner and I knew that something was coming that had a bearing on the conversation and that should have been mentioned earlier.

"Because," she said very softly, in a self-conscious manner, "I wouldn't have had the nerve to ask about extending the stay just so I could spend more time with Nik."

Then he took to giggling in a shy, self-conscious manner.

Regarding law, in Anthropology's characteristically self-conscious manner, the comparative analysis inherent to Legal Anthropology has been speculated upon and most famously debated by Paul Bohannan and Max Gluckman.

Miss Germer had an elfin charm, but displayed it in a slightly self-conscious manner.

Pilati is tall and ginger-haired, with a dandy's outmoded elegance and a charming, if self-conscious, manner that masks sudden changes in mood.

Owen flicked his hand in a self-conscious manner.

Every now and then an actor is employed to speak Wilde's more familiar lines in a self-conscious manner that would certainly not have pleased the author.

Eric Partridge suggests that it is coined from dud an 'article of clothing' altered to incorporate attitude with reference to the dude's self-conscious manner or pose.

On a recent afternoon at Harvard, he spoke with the same quiet North Carolina drawl, reflected on life with the same understated humor and even moved with the same self-conscious manner.