Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Martina, ever so slightly self-conscious, intent on ignoring the cameras and the audience.

• increasingly: Only progressive ideas and people were worthy of respect by an increasingly self-conscious and self-confident media class.

• too: I suppose I think we have become a little bit too self-conscious about it.

• extremely: Not only that, but Mary also felt extremely self-conscious about the unsightly appearance of her legs, which only added to her distress.

• rather: Is s/he quite self confident, or is s/he rather self-conscious?

• particularly: It gets ridiculous at times - like actively avoiding conversations with others when feeling particularly self-conscious.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: Analysis along such lines would be likely to make people more self-conscious.

• feel: Sometimes even tho it might make you feel a bit self-conscious, let people pour blessing on you!

Modifies a noun

• thought: An embarrassing remark or a self-conscious thought may do the trick.

• attempt: Theoretical notes " represent self-conscious, controlled attempts to derive meaning from any one or several observation notes.

• movement: The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority ' .

• way: Its propositions are not philosophical in any self-conscious way.

• being: We can see how we might almost have expected Gödel's theorem to distinguish self-conscious beings from inanimate objects.

• mind: That consciousness has primacy in this arrangement is explicit: " primacy is given to the self-conscious mind " [ TSIB 356 ] .

Used with adjective complement

• feel: A couple said they felt self-conscious looking at their own image.

• become: Today as a growing youth gathers in his awareness of the world and becomes self-conscious, he longs for an identity.

• get: Gravity has taken over and you get very self-conscious.

• remain: These are not moments of abandonment - viewer and artist remain self-conscious in the act of experiencing.

• make: The effect of using found sound is to make self-conscious the use of illustrative sound.

Preposition: in

• front: When you watch it you can see that the actors aren't as relaxed, they're so self-conscious in front of the camera.