Gregory presents her as one who consciously rejected all classical education, choosing instead devoted study of Scripture and other sacred writings.

I consciously rejected them three novels back.

Yet today, she was consciously rejecting it all.

Whether Browning simply didn't think of adding music or consciously rejected the possibility, the fact that he was working without music must have governed his creative choices.

With the gradual accumulation of knowledge, even the simplest minds for the first time 'see through' and consciously reject the claims of a minority to hereditary superiority.

Some, though they feel the demands of the ideal, will still consciously reject them, still urging that naked Power is worthy of worship.

He consciously rejected the post-Renaissance artistic tradition, with its emphasis on perspective and verisimilitude.

The manipulator, who has contempt for people like herself, consciously rejects these weak feelings.

Mr. Almodovar said the film consciously rejected any reference to the Franco years.

Not like the abbey church, he thought, for the first time consciously rejecting that heavy, impregnable splendour.