consciously

Funny thing is, I think we do know this, maybe not consciously but somewhere deep in our bones.

Maybe because that’s “my diagnosis of it,” said the 42-year-old San José mayor, “I have tried very consciously to not fall into that trap of just wanting to be liked.”

“I really felt where the audience wanted to go emotionally in our storytelling, and I would play with it. I would consciously hear them and be like, ‘Milk that or dial that down.‘”

It has become a habit for many people over the last decade, consciously and even unconsciously.

Not consciously, but he liked the comparison because “Easy in many ways is the opposite of Philip Marlowe.”