Example Sentences

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The Oscars’ self-awareness about its lack of diversity is preferable to the alternative—blithe unselfconsciousness, active defensiveness—because, among other things, it makes for a diverse show, if not a hugely diverse slate of winners.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2020

In this view, Driver is trying to preserve a certain unselfconsciousness that he considers important to his process and his product.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2019

For in his wonderful "Finch", it is the indifference and unselfconsciousness of birds that he celebrates.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2010

Bethenny demonstrates a consistent excess of one of the most marketable traits in these modern times: unselfconsciousness.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2010

To his mother he has credited most of his gifts as a writer, but to that childlike unselfconsciousness which he describes in his father, we are doubtless largely indebted for the candid self-analysis here given.

From Our Friend John Burroughs by Barrus, Clara