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The signature speckled edges and thumb indexes are preserved, helping to make the volume self-consciously display-friendly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

While the film has a techno-fantasy bent, Kogonada’s style is too self-consciously bespoke, the cinematic equivalent of a hipster carrying around their old iPod in a hand-carved wooden case.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

There were people reaching to the sky, wearing colourful face paint and elaborate necklaces, while I held my palms up self-consciously, melting in my M&S suit.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

Written by the novelist and playwright Justin Kuritzkes, “Challengers” is fairly straightforward despite its self-consciously tortured narrative timeline.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

But those had been open-fisted, more pats than punches, self-consciously friendly, comfortable expressions of anxieties that were both perplexing and thrilling.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini