Still, there is a large talent there somewhere, hidden under the fondness of exaggeration and the self-conscious effort to be an original.

We want you to forget about the self-conscious effort of creating a garden and allow your imagination to explore it.

In music, as in baseball, the best teacher is usually the marginal former player - the person forced to learn skills with self-conscious effort.

The governor conceded that the station was a place forever changed even amid all the self-conscious efforts to make it seem almost the same.

If these scenes had been played with any self-conscious effort, they would have been unbearable.

A touristy event, but the evening was carried off with no pretension, no self-conscious effort to show us a plastic good time.

They feel like strained, self-conscious efforts to generate material, and they should have been excised from this volume.

The case study method is further distinguished by the researcher's self-conscious effort to understand what the observed events mean to the participants.

We're quite informal here ac the University and there is an almost self-conscious effort to show no signs of status, either inherited or professional.

Amazingly, for such a self-conscious effort, it works, and not least because much of the food is very, very good.