self-consciousness

Beneath all this youthful self-consciousness, though, there are some great yarns.

I think it was more a matter of self-consciousness… I always saw writing about music as purely an avocation.

This reticence—this reserve—suits Beck's voice and personality much better than the confessional self-consciousness of Sea Change.

But as the concert continued, the colors of the stage became amplified and his feelings of self-consciousness slipped away.

Then, in the two decades prior to the Civil War, there occurred a momentous shift from free will to self-consciousness.

She felt sure that the significance of the whole occurrence had lain in her own self-consciousness.

Suitable literature with a matter-of-fact approach that may yet include the spiritual factor will remove self consciousness.

As far as any apparent self-consciousness was concerned, she might just as well have been all alone in the room.

I carry with me into the steerage just a bit of self-consciousness—there are so many trying to play upon me.

The self-consciousness shown would have been vanity if a little more pronounced, dignity if a little less.