[
US
/ˈkɑnʃəsɫi/
]
[ UK /kˈɒnʃəsli/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒnʃəsli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with awareness
she consciously played with the idea of inviting them
How To Use consciously In A Sentence
- Nilufer Bharucha, faculty in the department of English and project coordinator, explained that the term diaspora means to be scattered or dispersed across national boundaries, and has been self-consciously used today by postcolonial theorists to describe those who got displaced from their home owing to colonial politics and post-colonial economic realities. Analysis
- His writing is rather self - consciously poetic.
- These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices: Narrative Strategies
- Could it be -- and the sudden thought stung him to the quick -- that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? Phantom Wires A Novel
- I unconsciously manipulate situations to my advantage
- If they fail to reproduce their kind, they have failed in their purpose; they are unconsciously ruled by the philoprogenitive passion; it is their raison d'etre, for it they are fed, clothed, trained, bred. Captivity
- Her tale has a consciously youthful tone and storyline, combined with a sly humour.
- They quite unselfconsciously continued to drape themselves over each other; one would rest his head on the other's shoulder, the other would wrap his arms around his friend.
- Cliche is symptomatic of an entropic democracy where meaningless statements are repeated unconsciously by the masses.
- The time had come when a book of that kind was desirable and perhaps, subconsciously had been waited for, particularly by the women of the war generation and at the moment owed to the catenation of events which had nothing to do with the 'author and had nothing to do with its appearance. A Personal Confession of Faith