Example Sentences

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Come for a spin," in the same self-unconscious accents as he would say: "I've bought a boat.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Cherubino is childish, coquettish, sentimental, amorous, timid, audacious, fickle; he is self-conscious and self-unconscious, passionately troubled in mind, impudently cool in manner; he is brazen, calm, shy, fluttered; all these things together.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon

Everything he did was as graceful and as self-unconscious as the movements of a panther.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin

The way they fell on them," she answered, as self-unconscious as he—"quite as though you had offered to treat!

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

There was reason for this shy, secret self-satisfaction, so amusing in one otherwise self-unconscious.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham