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conscious as in:  conscious after the operation

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  • She is conscious and alert, but very weak.
    conscious = awake
  • At least some of the crew were probably alive and at least briefly conscious after the Challenger space shuttle broke up.
    conscious = aware of surroundings
  • Did she lose consciousness from the accident?
    consciousness = awareness of surroundings
  • He fights consciousness. He wants to go back to the dream he was having.   (source)
    consciousness = waking up
  • When I landed in Salt Lake, Grandma was drifting in and out of consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • Slowly, with the arrival of consciousness, it sank, seemingly into the floor.   (source)
  • The sound of rain drumming on the roof of our house gently pulls me toward consciousness.   (source)
  • The doctor told him I had started to deteriorate; my consciousness was fading, and I had again been vomiting blood.   (source)
  • He was losing consciousness.   (source)
  • He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness (awareness of surroundings)
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  • Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright atop the sled, clutching Gabriel, keeping him safe.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • Mullet Fingers was slumped across the handlebars, barely conscious.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • I feel that I might lose consciousness (and there is no metal elephant coffee table to break my fall).   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • He was entirely conscious and from the glimpses I caught of his face seemed to be fairly calm.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • He fell down and lost consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • The reason for all the "ifs" is that Mr. Kugler has been called up for a six-day work detail, Bep is down with a bad cold and will probably have to stay home tomorrow, Miep hasn't gotten over her flu, and Mr. Kleiman's stomach bled so much he lost consciousness.   (source)
  • A black shroud fell over her vision and she lost consciousness, giving Redd the only advantage she needed to put an end to the upstart princess.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness (awareness of surroundings)
  • He had perhaps lost consciousness for a few seconds.   (source)
  • He lived for half an hour, quite conscious, and in terrible pain.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • They found Anne and Marilla distractedly trying to restore Matthew to consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = the state of being awake
  • On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious…   (source)
    conscious = aware of surroundings
  • It struck me as curious that the moment she became conscious she pressed the garlic flowers close to her.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • You'll be fully conscious, but you won't feel a thing.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • A few times his eyes opened, but if he was conscious, he didn't recognize me.   (source)
    conscious = awake (aware of surroundings)
  • I'm in and out of consciousness, and the confusion feels good.   (source)
    consciousness = state of being awake and aware
  • Fighting to stay conscious, Harry watched it canter to a halt as it reached the opposite shore.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • Half conscious, he glanced over at me and mumbled, "And you say you don't write poetry."   (source)
  • Now that I'm conscious and moving, I'm growing more and more anxious about him.   (source)
  • Or he is put in a crate where he can only crouch, and left there until he loses consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • In those days they used ether, and so I was not conscious during the birth.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • He drifted slowly back to consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • The first sign of returning consciousness was cold.   (source)
  • I am just sorry I wasn't conscious to enjoy it.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • Alyss convulsed, breathed, vomited water, and coughed her way back into full consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness (awareness of surroundings)
  • Now a crack on the skull, I begin to lose consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • There was a violent convulsion of nausea inside him, and he almost lost consciousness.   (source)
  • There had been times when consciousness, even the sort of consciousness that one has in sleep, had stopped dead and started again after a blank interval.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness of surroundings
  • There were times when it went on and on until the cruel, wicked, unforgivable thing seemed to him not that the guards continued to beat him but that he could not force himself into losing consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness (awareness of surroundings)
  • It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep.   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • We must be alone with him when he becomes conscious, after the operation.   (source)
  • The time did not seem long, but very, very awful, till I recovered consciousness again.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or...   (source)
    conscious = aware of surroundings
  • The last conscious effort which imagination made was to show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist.   (source)
    conscious = while awake
  • It seemed, however, that his poor injured brain had been working in the interval, for when he was quite conscious, he looked at me piercingly with an agonized confusion which I shall never forget, and said, "I must not deceive myself."   (source)
    conscious = awake
  • But at the instant I heard Harker's quick exclamation as he woke to partial consciousness, and turned to the bed.   (source)
    consciousness = wakefulness
  • I told him briefly, and added that we expected he would recover consciousness after the operation, for a short time, at all events.   (source)
  • He seemed dazed for a few seconds, and then full consciousness seemed to burst upon him all at once, and he started up.   (source)
  • No—no, darling, he's unconscious. We won't know how badly he's hurt until Dr. Reynolds gets here.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The boy fell to the sand, nearly unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.   (source)
    unconsciousness = sleep
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • At first she thinks he's still unconscious because he's kind of hunched over, not moving.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • She hit her head on the floor, and she was unconscious, but then she woke up and she was fine.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • He's still unconscious, but I put him in the bed in his room.   (source)
  • Then he crawled into the sleeping bag his mother had sewn for him and slipped into unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = sleep
  • He was unconscious before he hit the ground.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Errol slumped, unconscious, onto the table, his legs in the air and a damp red envelope in his beak.   (source)
    unconscious = asleep
  • Nobody tries to help him, and he remains unconscious all night and most of the next day.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Bishop Aringarosa was unconscious when the doors of St. Mary's Hospital hissed open.   (source)
  • Louie beat one kid so badly, leaving him unconscious in a ditch, that he was afraid he'd killed him.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of surroundings
  • They can also develop a gas that will render the Zycronians unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • The kid was pale, shivering, unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Unconsciousness follows within minutes of a bite.   (source)
    unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • He eventually went unconscious, but it sounds like, yeah, it wasn't great or anything.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Finally, the Ra'zac struck him across the mouth, knocking him unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • And on at least one of these nights, the Bird beat Louie to unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of surroundings
  • All unconscious by the time I reached them.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • And how had he been loosed from the wires while unconscious?   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of surroundings
  • Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • After my PET scan lit up, I snuck into the ICU and saw her while she was unconscious.   (source)
  • They were knocking the workmen unconscious, cutting them up pretty badly.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Then came Hermione… then the unconscious Snape, drifting weirdly upward.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • He slowly came to understand that the woman's boyfriend had knocked him unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of surroundings
  • I was shot by a Taliban bullet and was flown out of Pakistan unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = not awake
  • Louie knelt beside Brooks, who was still unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of surroundings
  • I was told later that I'd been unconscious, hidden under the mattress, for several minutes.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Being unconscious probably saved this kid's life.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state like sleep
  • He was unconscious through most of the afternoon.   (source)
    unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • She blamed Matt for not watching me, for leaving us alone together, and she beat me with a strap until I was nearly unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Finally, his body too weak to take another step, he lay down by the side of the road and slipped into unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = sleep
  • Through the window soared three owls, two of them holding up the third, which appeared to be unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • And there are special torture cells: for instance, one where the victim's hands and arms are tied to a column which is then pulled up, and the victim hangs there until he becomes unconscious.   (source)
  • Already unconscious.   (source)
  • She was lost in an agony of pain that finally dissolved into the darkness of complete unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • I will never forget how Assef's blue eyes glinted with a light not entirely sane and how he grinned, how he grinned, as he pummeled that poor kid unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of surroundings
  • I tried to draw you from your body into mine and shield you from the pain, but I could do little with you unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • He had been unconscious in the hospital wing for the final match of the previous year, meaning that Gryffindor had been a player short and had suffered their worst defeat in three hundred years.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of surroundings
  • "She's unconscious," the intern said.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of surroundings
  • Johnny was unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • She upgraded to said magical sprockets after the following ad appeared in Thrasher magazine: CHISELED SPAM is what you will see in the mirror if you surf on a weak plank with dumb, fixed wheels and interface with a muffler, retread, snow turd, road kill, driveshaft, railroad tie, or unconscious pedestrian.   (source)
    unconscious = sleeping
  • It's a mystery, then, how people can have premonitions while sleeping, how they can do something unconsciously that has defeated our greatest sages.   (source)
    unconsciously = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciously means not and reverses the meaning of consciously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Darkness glazed her eyes and mind, but as she started to fall into unconsciousness her head dropped down into the flowers which she was still clutching; and as she inhaled the fragrance of their purity her mind and body revived, and she sat up again.   (source)
    unconsciousness = a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of surroundings
  • The bite itself had been stitched up while he was unconscious, so all he saw was a jagged pink line caked with blood on the front of his shoulder.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is unaware of anything
  • He wondered if he had been knocked unconscious, because he had only dim recollections of events immediately preceding the moment he had sat up, groaning, in the woods ten yards from the Land Cruiser.   (source)
    unconscious = into a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • Sure enough, the minute the door closes behind us and the current stops, he slumps to the floor unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = asleep
  • She was just crying on the other end of the line, and she told me she was sorry, and I said I was sorry, too, and she told me that he was unconscious for a couple hours before he died.   (source)
    unconscious = in a state similar to sleep where one is not aware of anything
  • I'll never know because just as he's opening his mouth to continue, Haymitch plummets off the stage and knocks himself unconscious.   (source)
  • Black and Lupin both gone… they had no one but Snape for company, still hanging, unconscious, in midair.   (source)
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conscious as in:  a conscious effort to lose weight

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  • It was a conscious decision to investigate less so we could get a report faster.
  • She makes a conscious effort to keep that image.
  • I didn't make a conscious decision to read more, but I found myself reading one mystery after another.
  • Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning.   (source)
    consciously = intentionally (on purpose)
  • If this new phase was spontaneous, or in any way due to her unconscious influence, she must have some rare gift or power.   (source)
    unconscious = unintentional
  • The buried cider was half-consciously plotted at the hub of the carnival.   (source)
    consciously = intentionally (on purpose)
  • "Leper's here," he said in a voice so quiet, and with such quiet unconscious dignity, that he was suddenly terrifyingly strange to me.   (source)
    unconscious = not done intentionally
  • A very faint whimpering or squeaking, which seemed unconscious, came out of him.   (source)
    unconscious = unintentional
  • When he did recall it, it was only by consciously reasoning out what it must be: it did not come of its own accord.   (source)
    consciously = with intentional effort
  • That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.   (source)
    consciously = purposefully
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  • Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.   (source)
  • In the days that followed, I wrote that passage everywhere—unconsciously, compulsively.   (source)
    unconsciously = not intentionally (without thought or plan)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciously means not and reverses the meaning of consciously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • He was twisting his hands now, unconsciously.   (source)
    unconsciously = without intent (not done on purpose for a reason)
  • To resist takes a tremendous conscious effort; you don't dare let your guard down for an instant.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose with effort)
  • If she were to hurt him a second time, though, it would be a conscious act.   (source)
    conscious = intentional or done with awareness
  • He tensed unconsciously, withdrawing back into himself, and his awareness of the hollow vanished.   (source)
    unconsciously = unintentionally
  • Like many of the Jews believed, he didn't think the hatred could last, and it was a conscious decision not to follow Hitler.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
  • At the sound of the gun, Louie's body, electric with nervous energy, wanted to bolt, but Louie made a conscious effort to relax, knowing how far he had to go.   (source)
  • Despite the aluminum braces on his legs, he carried himself with a resilient, vertical dignity that seemed more a by-product of noble ancestry than any kind of conscious effort.   (source)
    conscious = intentional
  • As I crossed the Far Common I saw that it was rapidly becoming unrecognizable, with huge green barrels placed at many strategic points, the ground punctuated by white markers identifying offices and areas, and also certain less tangible things: a kind of snap in the atmosphere, a professional optimism, a conscious maintenance of high morale.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
  • …they will be subject to pilferage and "shrinkage" as unauthorized persons consume them, either as part of a conscious effort to pilfer or out of an honest misunderstanding…   (source)
    conscious = intentional
  • As if she was making a conscious effort, she said, brightly, "You know, Scarlett actually used to play in that graveyard when she was little."   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose with effort)
  • Somehow, getting drunk had momentarily broken down the conscious barriers that kept the old Charlie Gordon hidden deep in my mind.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
  • He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth.   (source)
    unconsciously = without intent (not done on purpose for a reason)
  • The answer, of course, is nobody, which has prompted me to make a conscious, deliberate decision—to make distraction my vacation.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
  • Deliberate Living: Conscious attention to the basics of life, and a constant attention to your immediate environment and its concerns, examples A job, a task, a book; anything requiring efficient concentration.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose with effort)
  • The proles had stayed human. They had not become hardened inside. They had held on to the primitive emotions which he himself had to re-learn by conscious effort.   (source)
  • 'Everything depends on yourself,' O'Brien had said; but he knew that there was no conscious act by which he could bring it nearer.   (source)
  • Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
  • As usual, the High were to be turned out by the Middle, who would then become the High; but this time, by conscious strategy, the High would be able to maintain their position permanently.   (source)
  • One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.   (source)
  • The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality.   (source)
  • Not that Buck reasoned it out. He was fit, that was all, and unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life.   (source)
    unconsciously = without thought or plan
  • ...for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde's door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed,   (source)
    conscious = intentional (done on purpose)
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conscious as in:  environmentally conscious

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  • She is environmentally conscious.
    conscious = aware and concerned
  • As she spoke, she became increasing conscious that her opinion was unpopular.
  • She considers it her responsibility to be conscious of her influence on young fans.
  • This model is popular amongst those who are cost-conscious.
  • It's natural for her to dance that way, but she's also conscious of what causes boys to react.
    conscious = aware
  • The restaurant serves delicious food at a reasonable price, but is most popular among those who are health-conscious.
    conscious = aware and concerned
  • I became conscious of my own posture and sat up a little on the couch.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • Connor is conscious of every movement of Roland's body.   (source)
  • I was conscious of Zach's breathing, his shirt pulled across his chest, one arm draped on the steering wheel.   (source)
  • It was a small concoction of disjointed hand movements, muffled sentences, and mute, self-conscious turns.   (source)
    self-conscious = uncomfortable about what others might think
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  • I'd never been conscious of having any symptoms of Valley Fever.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • A fear of the cracked tongue, aching body and fuzzy mind brought on by my previous dehydration creeps into my consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • He looked around, and Lina felt suddenly self-conscious, seeing her room through his eyes.   (source)
    self-conscious = uncomfortable about what others might think
  • I was going on thirteen and self-conscious, so I planned to slip my bathing suit on underneath my dress, but I worried this would only make me more conspicuous, so I took a deep breath and stepped out of my clothes.   (source)
  • As a pilot, he was keenly conscious that if he made a mistake, eight other men could die.   (source)
    conscious = aware and concerned
  • The entire community had performed the Ceremony of Loss together, murmuring the name Caleb throughout an entire day, less and less frequently, softer in volume, as the long and somber day went on, so that the little Four seemed to fade away gradually from everyone's consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness or concern
  • He was very conscious of being an only child, and he knew his mom would be devastated if something had happened to him.   (source)
    conscious = aware and concerned
  • Suddenly I grew conscious of a break in that monotonous tone and I looked up.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • Her joy on the road that morning had completely disappeared; the wide world shrank and her oldest fears rolled freely in her consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered, angry air of the consciously innocent.   (source)
    consciously = in a manner that is concerned about something
  • Mariam signed her name-the meem, the reh, the ya, and the meem again-conscious of all the eyes on her hand.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • As the woman continued to question him, Jairo became conscious of the fact that he was smiling as he spoke.   (source)
  • When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.   (source)
    self-conscious = uncomfortable about what others might think
  • Although he was rarely conscious of it, Phineas was always being watched, like the weather.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • Squirming a little, conscious of his filthy appearance, Ralph answered shyly.   (source)
    conscious = aware (and concerned about)
  • She had to look away, and abruptly she was conscious of the crowded dock.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • He spoke the words haltingly and with a terrible self-consciousness.   (source)
    self-consciousness = nervousness or discomfort about what others would think of him
  • I've lived in Germany for many years, and I am always conscious of the painful absence of communication between Jews and the Germans and Poles.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • The room is rather smoky, but aircraft carriers are nothing if not fire conscious, and not too much in this place is flammable.   (source)
    conscious = aware and concerned about
  • — for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives —   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • She was conscious only of supreme terror.   (source)
  • He had no hat to take off, and was painfully conscious of his many missing buttons.   (source)
  • But whereas the physically defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousness of being separate, it was only quite recently that, grown aware of his mental excess, Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his difference from the people who surrounded him.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • So engrossed was she that she had no consciousness of being observed, and one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.   (source)
  • It is the front, the consciousness of the front, that makes this contact.   (source)
  • Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • As he held on he became more and more conscious of the new stir in the land.   (source)
  • According to these highly-respectable witnesses, the minister, conscious that he was dying ... had desired, by yielding up his breath in the arms of that fallen woman, to express to the world how utterly nugatory is the choicest of man's own righteousness.   (source)
  • They have no consciousness of us.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • In this state I was carried back and placed on a bed, hardly conscious of what had happened; my eyes wandered round the room as if to seek something that I had lost.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • Evidently, she saw three self-conscious smiles in return, for she burst out laughing, and for the first time since Claude arrived, things began to feel relaxed.†   (source)
  • I immediately felt self-conscious in my jeans and Tshirt.†   (source)
  • Still, there was something striking about her warmth and her unselfconscious manner, and it was not hard to see why Cassie had found a friend in her.†   (source)
  • The earnest expression on their faces, and the way their front paws hang before them, make them look either like children self-consciously posing for a photographer or patients in a doctor's office stripped naked and demurely trying to cover their genitals.†   (source)
  • He was self-conscious about it initially, but after I instructed him to begin everything with "Take a letter, Miss Clark," he got over it.†   (source)
  • Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean, and Neville changed into their dress robes up in their dormitory, all of them looking very self-conscious, but none as much as Ron, who surveyed himself in the long mirror in the corner with an appalled look on his face.†   (source)
  • But as the weeks passed and our time ran down, I was increasingly less self-conscious about the physical embarrassment.†   (source)
  • The man smiled self-consciously.†   (source)
  • Self-conscious but also aware of the warning in Edwin's tone, Cole stood and began circling the fire.†   (source)
  • And as they did all these things that made me incredibly self-conscious, they asked questions.†   (source)
  • He was self-conscious about his age and felt that the jurors would see him as disgusting if he did not distance himself from Susan Marie Heine and appear in general detached from the life of his body altogether.†   (source)
  • This state lasted until lunch, when suddenly I became self-conscious.†   (source)
  • She could also be very graceful if she wasn't thinking about her body or feeling self-conscious about it.†   (source)
  • Emily also felt a little self-conscious about her body, which was strong, muscular, and not as slender as it used to be.†   (source)
  • To me, his principal gift was how unselfconsciously he amused himself—and he was capable of making fun of himself, too.†   (source)
  • Besides, I'm really self-conscious when I'm sweaty and snotty and wheezing and smelly and I would just rather run alone.†   (source)
  • I would have liked another hug, but there were so many people around I felt self-conscious.†   (source)
  • He looked self-conscious, but he shook his head.†   (source)
  • He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.†   (source)
  • Her hair was covering most of her face, and watching her I was reminded of Clarissa at her most self-conscious.†   (source)
  • Cinder self-consciously rubbed her cyborg hand through the glove.†   (source)
  • I must have looked a little too long at his lips, because he rubs them self-consciously with the back of his hand.†   (source)
  • He hadn't even had time to eat breakfast or brush his teeth, which made him self-conscious, knowing he was going to be sitting so close to her.†   (source)
  • She met my gaze without a hint of self-consciousness.†   (source)
  • "Anyhow —" self-conscious change of tone—"they'd yanked me out of that place and got me into Groton by the time things really came to a head with Daddy and he was sent away.†   (source)
  • It's silly to feel self-conscious in front of my aunt and cousins, but a hot, crawling itch begins to work its way up my arms.†   (source)
  • I look at her as I pass, into her blue eyes that make me feel shy and self-conscious, that make my cheeks warm.†   (source)
  • At the same time, it was like I'd caught them doing something they shouldn't, and they moved apart self-consciously.†   (source)
  • I'm too self-conscious otherwise.†   (source)
  • He seemed slightly self-conscious of his speech.†   (source)
  • Rachel was one of those rare children who managed to be cute without becoming self-consciously precious; by the time she was two standard years old her appearance and personality were striking-her mother's light brown hair, red cheeks, and broad smile, her father's large brown eyes.†   (source)
  • I self-consciously stole glances at the cast and crew and could see it plainly on their faces: Where did this animal come from, and how can we send him back?†   (source)
  • Bare-chested, he gathered the blankets self-consciously around his waist and glanced toward the door.†   (source)
  • From time to time she drew the fingertips of her hand across the base of her throat as though she felt self-conscious about the splotchy blush that had appeared there.†   (source)
  • It made me self-conscious.†   (source)
  • And yet he notices that some color has risen to her cheeks, whether from the wine or from self-consciousness he doesn't know.†   (source)
  • She becomes self-conscious of her appearance, shiny and streaming, something apart from the people who live here.†   (source)
  • The same un-self-conscious honesty that enables a three-year-old to splash joyfully in a rain puddle, or tumble laughing in the grass with a puppy, or point out loudly that you have a booger hanging out of your nose, is what is required to enter heaven.†   (source)
  • Denied admission to Harvard and Yale and the "right" beginning, he had become a self-conscious connoisseur of fine things.†   (source)
  • I sat down, surrounded by empty seats, feeling unbearably self-conscious.†   (source)
  • He touched his own cheek, looking self-conscious.†   (source)
  • I'm too self-conscious.†   (source)
  • And it would make her dreadfully self-conscious, she knew that.†   (source)
  • Usually he would end up feeling awkward and self-conscious.†   (source)
  • I felt self-conscious sitting so close.†   (source)
  • She laughed self-consciously, aware of how silly her question had been.†   (source)
  • I am very self-conscious of my body.†   (source)
  • With Hush Puppies as well, perhaps the shoes caught the attention of Connectors precisely because they weren't part of any self-conscious, commercial fashion trend.†   (source)
  • 'Then my own self-consciousness took over and I wondered, "Am I really getting fat?"†   (source)
  • We laugh awkward, selfconscious laughs and then laugh at ourselves for being so very awkward and self-conscious.†   (source)
  • Suddenly self-conscious about my letter—I don't want him to read it in front of everyone—I say, "Me too."†   (source)
  • She crossed her arms self-consciously, covering the worn spots on her skirt.†   (source)
  • But remember these limitations — Thus are you never fully self-conscious.†   (source)
  • She was flooded with self-consciousness and gratitude.†   (source)
  • Suddenly I felt a little self-conscious.†   (source)
  • I am suddenly self-conscious in my prim blouse and modest skirt, my sensible shoes and churchy earrings.†   (source)
  • This young man, Duke, a friend of Paul's, played the piano with an intent self-consciousness, but he was very good, technically proficient and passionate too.†   (source)
  • I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes.†   (source)
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conscious as in:  the conscious mind

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  • I instinctively grabbed at the gun without conscious thought.
    conscious = mental activity of which one is self-aware
  • She planted a hypnotic suggestion in an attempt to bypass the conscious mind.
  • The answer floated to my conscious mind before I could thwart it: He was just a Hazara, wasn't he?   (source)
    conscious = of mental activity of which one is aware
  • In his conscious mind he knew it was true, but in other places, deeper places, he doubted that they needed him.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
  • "We shall start by practicing relaxing the conscious mind and external eyes" — Ron began to snigger uncontrollably and had to stuff his fist in his mouth to stifle the noise — "so as to clear the Inner Eye and the superconscious."   (source)
    conscious = mentally self-aware
  • They shifted and then moved and quickly evaporated from his conscious mind.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
  • IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating than anything she had ever imagined with her conscious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.   (source)
    conscious = mentally aware
  • She had never consciously made any decision, but suddenly there it was waiting and unmistakable. "'Tis no use, William," she said now. "You and I would always be uneasy, all of our lives. We would always be hoping for the other one to be different, and always being disappointed when it didn't happen."   (source)
    consciously = with mental activity of which one is aware
  • Eusebius observed similar phenomena around the year 300, saying that the false prophet begins by a deliberate suppression of conscious thought, and ends in a delirium over which he has no control.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
  • From the earliest epoch of her conscious life, she had entered upon this as her appointed mission.   (source)
    conscious = done with mental awareness
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  • A seaman in a blue coat bent to check a row of barrels, and as he straightened up, even before he turned or before she consciously recognized him, Kit began to run.   (source)
    consciously = with mental activity of which one is aware
  • I enjoyed myself as much as I could, trying consciously or unconsciously to fill the void with jokes.   (source)
    consciously = in a self-aware manner
  • The whole time I've been here I've longed unconsciously and at times consciously for trust, love and physical affection.   (source)
  • "Your body knows what to do." ... It's unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = done without mental awareness
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconscious means not and reverses the meaning of conscious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconscious, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
  • It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness.   (source)
    conscious = done with mental awareness
  • At the time he was not conscious of wanting it for any particular purpose.   (source)
    conscious = aware
  • It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one's consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • It is not conscious; it is far quicker, much more sure, less fallible, than consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
  • It was a memory that he must have deliberately pushed out of his consciousness over many years.   (source)
  • —it has transformed us into unthinking animals in order to give us the weapon of instinct—it has reinforced us with dullness, so that we do not go to pieces before the horror, which would overwhelm us if we had clear, conscious thought—   (source)
    conscious = mentally self-aware
  • The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.   (source)
    conscious = done with mental awareness
  • He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.   (source)
    conscious = mentally aware
  • He sat staring at the marbled cover of the book, trying without success to shut the voice out of his consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = awareness
  • You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.   (source)
    consciousness = the part of the mind with activity of which one is aware
  • But there was still that memory moving round the edges of his consciousness, something strongly felt but not reducible to definite shape, like an object seen out of the corner of one's eye.   (source)
    consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
  • Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.   (source)
  • In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. ... Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.   (source)
  • He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.   (source)
  • It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration, you will have to give the wall to your conscious brother.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
  • He had unconsciously invented a game which brought his own athletic gifts to their highest pitch.   (source)
    unconsciously = not in a self-aware manner
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciously means not and reverses the meaning of consciously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciously, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
  • Unconsciously, I had these feelings even before I came here.   (source)
    unconsciously = without awareness of it
  • And if they were buried somewhere in his unconscious, he had no access to that area of thought.   (source)
    unconscious = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • Stay inside my unconscious where you belong, and stop following me around.   (source)
    unconscious = the part of the mind with activity of which one is not aware
  • Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology gains both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten.   (source)
    unconscious = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • On a Sunday, when you can indulge in your own thoughts and forget the army and its demands, all the ideas you usually hide in your unconscious mind come up.   (source)
    unconscious = the part of the mind with activity of which one is not aware
  • I had no idea where I would spend the night, but at the moment I did not really care, although there was a lurking fear of the coming twilight in my unconscious mind.   (source)
    unconscious = done without awareness
  • But I still remember that all week, whether I was at the pictures, in the theatre or eating ices, even during amusements that called for great concentration, I was not free for a single moment of the itch of fear in the pit of my stomach, an unconscious, persistent fear of what would happen when the day of the operation finally came.   (source)
  • Braced to meet the reserve and suspicion she had encountered at every introduction so far, Kit was startled to meet the unmistakably dazzled gaze of William Ashby, and unconsciously she rewarded him with the first genuine smile she had managed this morning.   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without thought or intent)
  • The whole time I've been here I've longed unconsciously and at times consciously for trust, love and physical affection.   (source)
    unconsciously = without awareness of it
  • I enjoyed myself as much as I could, trying consciously or unconsciously to fill the void with jokes.   (source)
  • I still don't know how the conscious and unconscious mind works, but Dr. Strauss says not to worry yet.   (source)
    unconscious = the part of the mind with activity of which one is not aware
  • Charlie is drawing me down into myself: I stare inward in the center of my unseeing eye at the red spot that transforms itself into a multipetaled flower—the shimmering, swirling, luminescent flower that lies deep in the core of my unconscious.   (source)
  • In the core I see the light again, an opening in the darkest of caves, now tiny and far away—through the wrong end of a telescope—brilliant, blinding, shimmering, and once again the multipetaled flower (swirling lotus—that floats near the entrance of the unconscious).   (source)
  • Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2=5   (source)
    unconsciously = without self-awareness
  • We scatter and fling ourselves down on the ground, but at that moment I feel the instinctive alertness leave me which hitherto has always made me do unconsciously the right thing under fire; the thought leaps up with a terrible throttling fear: "You are lost"—and the next moment a blow sweeps like a whip over my left leg.   (source)
    unconsciously = without thought or effort
  • A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself — anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide.   (source)
    unconscious = done without mental awareness
  • Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = mental activity of which one was unaware
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconsciousness means not and reverses the meaning of consciousness. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. Also note that while many people use this as a synonym for subconsciousness, experts in the mind may distinguish a difference.
  • The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.   (source)
    unconscious = done without mental awareness
  • The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck.   (source)
    unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • An overpowering smell of sweat, a sort of unconscious testimony to the strenuousness of his life, followed him about wherever he went, and even remained behind him after he had gone.   (source)
    unconscious = knowledge of which one is not self-aware
  • That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.   (source)
    unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • They were a few meters apart when the left side of the man's face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm. ... He remembered thinking at the time: That poor devil is done for. And what was frightening was that the action was quite possibly unconscious.   (source)
    unconscious = done without awareness
  • Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.   (source)
    unconscious = done without mental awareness
  • With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles.   (source)
  • All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown; or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown. They fell, that is to say, either through consciousness or through unconsciousness.   (source)
    unconsciousness = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic.   (source)
  • She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one's heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.   (source)
    unconscious = instinctive (without thought or intent)
  • There did not seem to be with her now the unconscious struggle for life and strength that had hitherto so marked her illness.   (source)
  • Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the 'Death's-head Moth'?"   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without thought or intent)
  • The Professor took the key, opened the creaky door, and standing back, politely, but quite unconsciously, motioned me to precede him.   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without thought or planning)
  • His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I thought instinctively and unconsciously, as she spoke. ...   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without intent or planning)
  • When we met in Dr. Seward's study two hours after dinner, which had been at six o'clock, we unconsciously formed a sort of board or committee.   (source)
    unconsciously = without thought or planning
  • Unconsciously we had all moved towards the door, and as we moved I noticed that the dust had been much disturbed.   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without thought or planning)
  • It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration, you will have to give the wall to your conscious brother.   (source)
    unconscious = mental activity of which one is unaware
  • For a moment, I thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on the table.   (source)
    unconsciously = instinctively (without thought or planning)
  • The effort succeeded, for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied.   (source)
  • In a sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice, such as I had never heard from her lips, "Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"   (source)
    unconscious = without thought or planning
  • On the verge of blending with the universe I hear the whispers around the ridges of consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = the part of the mind with activity of which one is aware
  • I still don't know how the conscious and unconscious mind works, but Dr. Strauss says not to worry yet.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
  • Dr. Strauss says that it means I've reached a point where my subconscious is trying to block my conscious from remembering.   (source)
  • I've gone as far as I can on a conscious level, and now it's up to those mysterious operations below the level of awareness.   (source)
  • Of the nature of mental operations yet not present in consciousness; as, subconscious conflict of desires.   (source)
    consciousness = mental activity of which one is self-aware
  • I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon—very soon—it will burst into consciousness.   (source)
  • He's had several experiences of perceiving himself as he was before the experiment—as a separate and distinct individual still functioning in his consciousness—as if the old Charlie were struggling for control of the body—   (source)
    consciousness = the part of the mind with activity of which one is aware
  • Theres the SUBCONSCIOUS and the CONSCIOUS (thats how you spell it) and one dont tell the other what its doing.   (source)
    conscious = mental activity of which one is aware
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conscious as in:  conscious life on other planets

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  • The subtitle is Evolution from the Big Bang to Conscious Life.
    conscious = capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after.   (source)
    consciousness = the state of being capable of thought and self-reflection
  • He was, actually, the first modern man, a fully conscious human being, just like us.   (source)
    conscious = capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • The plants possessed a different type of consciousness than animals: slow, deliberate, and decentralized, but in their own way just as cognizant of their surroundings as Eragon himself was.   (source)
    consciousness = capability of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • "Sunny Jim," as admirers called him, was thus entangled in the racetrack from the beginning of his conscious life.   (source)
    conscious = capable of free will
  • He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.   (source)
    consciousness = the state of being capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • "Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?"
    "Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness," I said, quoting AIA.   (source)
  • I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.   (source)
  • I screamed to wake up my parents, and they burst into the room, but there was nothing they could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intracranial firecrackers that made me think that I was once and for all going, and I told myself—as I've told myself before—that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass.   (source)
  • If every part of an Unwind is still alive, then that consciousness has to go somewhere, doesn't it?   (source)
    consciousness = part of a human that is capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
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  • I don't even know when that consciousness starts.   (source)
    consciousness = the state of being capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • "I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound," says Connor.   (source)
    consciousness = part of a human that is capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.   (source)
    consciousness = thought, self-reflection, and will
  • Whether or not souls exist Connor doesn't know. But consciousness does exist—that's something he knows for sure.   (source)
    consciousness = a state of being capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • Part Seven — Consciousness   (source)
    consciousness = the state of being capable of thought, self-reflection, and will
  • He imagines his spirit like a web strung between the thousand recipients of his hands, his eyes, the fragments of his brain—none of it under his control anymore, all absorbed by the bodies and wills of others. Could consciousness exist like that?   (source)
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  • It was a testament to Glen's strength that he was conscious at all, even if half out of his mind with pain.†   (source)
  • I read my history textbook for a while, but my consciousness felt like a camera with a dirty lens, so I decided to text Davis.†   (source)
  • Chuck had been in and out of consciousness all day, and hardly aware of who we were when he did wake up.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the second movement, he became conscious of the fact that the Bishop was smiling dismissively.†   (source)
  • In our race-conscious society, our vocabulary often extends no further than the color of someone's skin—"black people,"†   (source)
  • He suspected that all young men embarked on this learning process with their mothers, though he often wondered if they consciously realized it.†   (source)
  • As long as she could remember, she'd felt like a stranger in her own home and family, half-conscious of something terrible and unspoken.†   (source)
  • Even when you consciously try to turn your thoughts to the future, circumstances keep forcing you to replay the past.†   (source)
  • Whatever is left of Kronos is still alive in some hideous way, still conscious in his eternal pain, still hungering for power.†   (source)
  • We didn't need to check our watches—we were starting to feel the fear that crept around the edges of our consciousness at dusk.†   (source)
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  • Because they figured out that you already have murderous tendencies and wouldn't mind killing a few hundred people while conscious," I say.†   (source)
  • It wasn't proper sleep, but a state of semi-consciousness in which daydreams and reality were nearly indistinguishable.†   (source)
  • It is more recent and is recognized in our national consciousness, but it is still not well understood.†   (source)
  • I stood there a little longer, letting the steady beep of the machines burn a rhythm into my consciousness.†   (source)
  • I curtsied slightly, conscious of the few threads barely holding me together.†   (source)
  • His mind had shut down when it could no longer take the pain; he feared it would all return if he allowed him= self back into consciousness.†   (source)
  • "My family can get all the food we want, of course, but"—she looked at him in a way that once again made him conscious of his ragged clothes—"How does your family get food for you?"†   (source)
  • It's surely nonsense, yet something hangs inside it, some truth he does not want to allow himself to apprehend, and as she speaks, she ages, silver hair lays down on her head, her collar frays; she becomes an old woman—his understanding of who hovers at the rim of his consciousness.†   (source)
  • At 5 percent, it's hard to stay conscious.†   (source)
  • She was about to lose consciousness when she heard sirens.†   (source)
  • When the commotion finally stopped, Cole lay completely spent, drifting in and out of consciousness.†   (source)
  • The accused man, with one segment of his consciousness, watched the falling snow outside the windows.†   (source)
  • You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less than a minute a day.†   (source)
  • I had expected, even more than I consciously realized, that she would have eaten the sausages and died.†   (source)
  • I kept coming in and out of consciousness, struggling to make heads or tails of what was going on.†   (source)
  • During the actual incidents of bullying, a child with PTSD might retreat into an altered state of consciousness-a dissociation from reality to keep him from feeling pain or humiliation while the incident occurs.†   (source)
  • I might have been particularly conscious of this aspect of him because he had truly earned so much more than I had.†   (source)
  • I tick through the contents, suddenly conscious of the Jim Crow booklet I stole from the library.†   (source)
  • I guess the moment I pulled away with Karen, I somehow made a conscious decision, at that young age, to never recall those memories.†   (source)
  • He crossed the room to their table, acutely conscious of the way his stunted legs made him waddle with every step.†   (source)
  • Earth ....Earth ....As he pushed upward, his vision narrowed and he feared consciousness would slip away.†   (source)
  • I think I've convinced everyone who's conscious except Johanna, who's naturally opposed to liking anything I suggest.†   (source)
  • And she suspected then, maybe not consciously, that there was more to this than even she cared to admit.†   (source)
  • The pain triples beneath her finger, and I fall against the bars, barely conscious enough to hold on.†   (source)
  • The boy, age seventeen, never regained consciousness.†   (source)
  • "Surely you have enough now," I said, conscious of the time and wondering how long it would take to label and wrench apart all the bones.†   (source)
  • Conscious of her mother watching her, Cecilia adopted an expression of amused curiosity as she unfolded the sheet.†   (source)
  • The daughters will never know and the old man won't mind because he's only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India.†   (source)
  • My meal would be an extreme experiment in being an active and conscious eater.†   (source)
  • I was always conscious of improving myself-making myself bettermaking myself good enough, bright enough, proper enough, respectable enough.†   (source)
  • Just before noon, when I turned around to get another bundle of rice, I lost consciousness.†   (source)
  • Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in.†   (source)
  • I think if I'd consciously known what was so important about it and what I would need it for it would have showed up on the brain screening tests and I would never have passed.†   (source)
  • Half conscious, he dreamed that his father was carrying him, and he did not wonder how this could be.†   (source)
  • He will be slipping in and out of consciousness all night.†   (source)
  • Eleanor was only distantly conscious of Richie watching TV in the next room, and she practically fell off the bed when he jerked the bedroom door open.†   (source)
  • And as he lay there, consciousness slipping away from him, he prayed that Master Artemis hadn't managed to capture the moment on video.†   (source)
  • Startled, we stirred from our half-conscious state.†   (source)
  • Still he carried Fayge as one might carry a loved one, with conscious tenderness and pride.†   (source)
  • As I struggle into consciousness I see wisps of blond hair, like a halo, and for a confused moment think maybe I've died.†   (source)
  • The guys upstairs might still be conscious.†   (source)
  • And I suddenly became very conscious of the fact that we were the only people in the shop, except for the old guy behind the counter at the front engrossed in his paperwork.†   (source)
  • As I neared our home, conscious of the noise of the car engine, I could see the cat was definitely on the steps.†   (source)
  • Save for the one time he had tried to probe Murtagh's consciousness, he had refrained from doing so.†   (source)
  • One of those killer hot days, hot-hot, and we're all popping salt tabs just to stay conscious.†   (source)
  • On the third afternoon after he had regained consciousness, he awoke to find Willie staring down at him, looking rather grumpy.†   (source)
  • And I will do so consciously, not instinctively like the mindless mass of alien tissue embedded in me.†   (source)
  • When Marley reached the diaper, he seemed to enter an altered state of consciousness, a sort of Pampers-induced trance.†   (source)
  • And I suppose this was enough of a reprimand, for Nobu let out a sigh and stepped down into the garden in his stocking feet to begin the task of bringing the Minister back to consciousness.†   (source)
  • My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through.†   (source)
  • The question had sprung out of him, something he had not consciously put together in his mind until that moment.†   (source)
  • Another, opposing current of consciousness coursed through him now, one that did not displace the first but claimed space beside it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, our interests are entered into the past, he wrote.†   (source)
  • For her part, Jai tried desperately to remain with us, to stay calm and conscious.†   (source)
  • By the time she writes her books, she has access to that tradition in ways that need not be conscious.†   (source)
  • I've learned it's not uncommon for people with schizophrenia to be hyperreligious or hyper—race-conscious.†   (source)
  • I would probably have ten—maybe fifteen—seconds of consciousness, and in two minutes I would be dead.†   (source)
  • Just as I lost consciousness, I felt the wind, a surge of power that literally ripped my arm out of Ridley's hand, as she was sucked out of the room, toward the front door.†   (source)
  • I could not sleep, but kept going in and out of consciousness.†   (source)
  • The Ranger continued trying to recover the rope, not conscious of the situation around him and not listening to verbal commands.†   (source)
  • He had suffered a concussion but gradually regained consciousness through the dawn and staggered about half-blinded into the open, with no more sense of direction than an insect rushing at flame.†   (source)
  • Conscious on one side of the net, subconscious on the other, serving some cockamamie image back and forth.†   (source)
  • He attempted chivalrously not to take in the sweep of her body, his eyes holding hers, but of course, as we know often happens in such circumstances, he was unsure as to whether or not he had succeeded, one's gaze being less than entirely conscious a phenomenon.†   (source)
  • I was informed a few minutes ago that he is now conscious, and that he is expected to recover fully.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of place where you were conscious not to disrupt the neat vacuum lines on the carpet ot the perfectly plumped pillows-sitting at exactly forty-five-degree angles-on the couch.†   (source)
  • Or maybe it was my conscious [mind], I can never keep them straight.†   (source)
  • This he attributed to the fact that the people had become conscious of their needs and their own strength.†   (source)
  • Jammed between rocks, we kept firing, but Danny was in all kinds of trouble, and I was afraid he might lose consciousness.†   (source)
  • The vibration of the car striking the metal illuminators that separate each lane jarred me into consciousness.†   (source)
  • The serpent in the Garden of Eden [our minds] represents our subconscious and our conscious talking to each other.†   (source)
  • The Incredible Robo-Plunger soared off into space just as the teachers began to regain consciousness.†   (source)
  • I was, in fact, more conscious of my weight now.†   (source)
  • Confined to his bed since a terrible carriage accident the week before, Seward drifted in and out of consciousness.†   (source)
  • Until the age of fifty he had not been conscious of the size and weight and condition of his organs.†   (source)
  • It was my misfortune—or salvation—to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.†   (source)
  • What is it about being in the same room with him that makes me so conscious of my body and all its parts?†   (source)
  • Her college was so fashion conscious, she said, that all the girls had pocketbook covers made out of the same material as their dresses, so each time they changed their clothes they had a matching pocketbook.†   (source)
  • Nefud was addicted to semuta, the drug-music combination that played itself in the deepest consciousness.†   (source)
  • At the edge of his consciousness he could hear Leslie singing along and drowsily wondered why she bothered.†   (source)
  • I have to say in her defense, though, that just before I lost consciousness I heard her screaming at Dale that she wrote the newspaper with me.†   (source)
  • Deep in the recesses of my consciousness, I knew answering my phone was important.†   (source)
  • I know I am expected to respond, to express gratitude, but it takes a conscious effort to smile, and several moments to form the words.†   (source)
  • It's like a fragment of human consciousness that gets stuck in a piece of technology even after the person's dead ...a bit of soul trying to reach out before it's gone for good.†   (source)
  • He was naturally pale, conscious of his weight, and fussy about his food, a lover of opera and sports cars.†   (source)
  • He was no longer quite conscious.†   (source)
  • I loomed in the doorway, conscious of looming, seeing myself from Mink's viewpoint, magnified, threatening.†   (source)
  • From the very beginning of human consciousness, we have looked at the moon and wondered what it would be like to walk on it.†   (source)
  • She rode like a madwoman, consciously so, wholeheartedly, embracing madness and urging its return in Pilgrim.†   (source)
  • I watched his face, gentled by dreams, until sun winks off the polished fuselage hypnotized me, not quite asleep not quite conscious not quite in this dimension.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is, something is trying to send a sign to this side through a tiny opening in the consciousness.†   (source)
  • Either way, the decisions are a conscious choice, not just an instinctive response to mass marketing.†   (source)
  • Through it all Adam remained conscious but groggy, looking up with tired eyes but never saying a word.†   (source)
  • Regaining consciousness, I opened my eyes and could dimly see the blurry images of the men around me.†   (source)
  • "But men die daily for lack of what is found there," Yo quoted and misquoted, drowning in the flooded streams of her consciousness.†   (source)
  • He might not think of it consciously, but just the fact that the thought is lingering in my mind is a sign.†   (source)
  • Hema's face at dinner was as tranquil as I'd seen it since I became conscious of her at my bedside at Our Lady.†   (source)
  • I lost consciousness then.†   (source)
  • The four bodies that now linked themselves across the alley hit her conscious mind like a fist, and she cried out, startled.†   (source)
  • The others at the table-his mother, his father, his younger brother-were not conscious of anything uncommon in his manner.†   (source)
  • I thought of Jack London not putting a final period on the last sentence of the book as Martin lost consciousness and drifted into death.†   (source)
  • The word "Man" has penetrated his consciousness; he mumbles it to himself repeatedly between strange agitated pauses as he moves about) MAMA: Baby, how you going to feel on the inside?†   (source)
  • But my last conscious idea was an image of Prince Char when he'd caught the bridle of Sir Stephan's horse.†   (source)
  • Lying in bed, barely conscious, he tries to remember the swift-flowing sensations from the night before.†   (source)
  • By midafternoon, Newt, who was as usual with the drags, became conscious of rumblings and flashing far on the west.†   (source)
  • The mountain people, being used only to one class, never find themselves consciously in the society of their superiors.†   (source)
  • The music comes off a long tape from the Nurses' Station, a tape we all know so well by heart that there don't any of us consciously hear it except new men like McMurphy.†   (source)
  • Their memories have made him conscious of the man's presence in his lift.†   (source)
  • I am so flooded with shame my consciousness flickers.†   (source)
  • Who is there that can dismiss all doubts on the justice of a cause which can inspire such conscious rectitude ?†   (source)
  • Maybe not consciously, but every time a choice is made between one meaning of a word or another, the translator determines which one to use based on what he believes is correct, based on his own personal history with the subject.†   (source)
  • It was not a spontaneous reaction; she seemed to be consciously setting up a do as I do kind of game.†   (source)
  • "Nevertheless," I whispered crossly—but I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words—changing nothing.†   (source)
  • He didn't consciously consider the new possessions the open sesame to Mother Dear's vault of acceptance.†   (source)
  • I found an old suitcase and began to pack my few belongings, conscious all the while of Mrs. Pritchard standing over me, a distasteful look on her face as she saw how worn and shabby my clothes were.†   (source)
  • It would be an overstatement to suggest that all parents are looking—whether consciously or not—for a "smart" name or a "high-end" name.†   (source)
  • That was a time in my life when I was so conscious of who I was, working hard not just to survive but succeed, and a brother in prison did not fit in.†   (source)
  • I'd never hurt him consciously, ever, ever!†   (source)
  • So environmentally conscious!†   (source)
  • But it didn't last long, because at the same time that I was becoming conscious of her body, I was becoming aware of my own.†   (source)
  • Max was conscious of the fact that her hand had a way of brushing his occasionally as they walked along.†   (source)
  • All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.†   (source)
  • I ALWAYS found NewYear's Eve a bore on the outside, but on the inside it held greater interest, and I was very conscious and grateful that it would be my only one at Danbury.†   (source)
  • The governor is conscious, though just barely.†   (source)
  • Rage may have been simmering deep within me, but my conscious reaction was, "Oh well, that's okay, Radine.†   (source)
  • At any rate, at some point I must have "fallen asleep," because at some point, a hand shaking my shoulder made me streak back to "consciousness."†   (source)
  • They would try to make the sounds, but it was a dialect known only to him, only at the edge of consciousness.†   (source)
  • The silence that had closed in upon me as I lost consciousness had been real: the roaring had stopped, and with it the rock fall.†   (source)
  • He felt himself topple, but he wasn't sure if he was really falling or if he was losing consciousness.†   (source)
  • At a banquet that night, Beech struggled to keep the befogged Ira conscious enough to "say a few words" when his turn came.†   (source)
  • If I'd checked my voice mail earlier, you would have been conscious when EMS found you.†   (source)
  • But all day, even as the infant began to regain her strength, Rhokia lay on the straw, moaning in pain when she slipped into consciousness.†   (source)
  • With my last shreds of consciousness, I scour the ground for my scims and crawl out of the darkness.†   (source)
  • How could she sit there, watching Thalia slip in and out of consciousness, and not return the stolen medicine?†   (source)
  • He said that to follow God is a conscious choice (not something you're just born into like belonging to the same church for as long as you can remember).†   (source)
  • I am conscious of the sounds of the river rushing past boulders below and a fragrance in the night wind.†   (source)
  • For the first time, as I swung along the streets, I thought consciously of how I had conducted myself at home.†   (source)
  • It is not merely that they find each other's society congenial, but that they consciously avoid and weed out the poor....The poor are driven by inexorable necessity into 'the poor quarters' of the city, where they pull each other further down from all chance and hope.†   (source)
  • In many ways, Black Consciousness represented the same response to the same problem that had never gone away.†   (source)
  • When he's conscious, my grandfather is a blustery caballero who insists that even his wife call him "Don Guillermo.†   (source)
  • But he was conscious — it felt like grief — of the great physical distance and the impossibility of actually being home.†   (source)
  • Of that deadly gleam and of the dark eyeholes Frodo and Sam were always conscious, ever glancing fearfully over their shoulders, and ever dragging their eyes back to find the darkening path.†   (source)
  • It was not in the nature of his consciousness to understand the nature of the things he was hearing.†   (source)
  • This realization of doing and getting results was what I have later called an awakening consciousness.†   (source)
  • The pain from the wound in his back was so intense that when he rolled to a stop he had to fight to stay conscious.†   (source)
  • "At some point you have to consciously choose your identity, and I chose to be an American kid," Vila says of growing up in a Spanish-speaking family.†   (source)
  • Or could it be my will Has outleapt the conscious act and I have come Among the great departed?†   (source)
  • She was exhausted, and only semi-conscious, but there did not seem to be anything seriously wrong with her.†   (source)
  • "Something I absorbed through the skin," he insisted, "put me in an altered state of consciousness."†   (source)
  • They drift into my consciousness so soft they almost have no form, as if they're made of air and longing, but I swear I hear them anyway.†   (source)
  • He was suddenly conscious of the way his fingers were playing with the earlock, and he let his hand drop to the table.†   (source)
  • And then, the woman begins to shift her consciousness from the dead father to the absent son, her husband.†   (source)
  • Tense, not wanting to move as the heat gradually left me, as the sweat evaporated and I became conscious again of brittle air outside the windows searing and howling through the streets and over the frozen cars hunched like sheep all the way down towards Lake Ontario.†   (source)
  • Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God consciousness and never ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion?†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (Consciously making rhymed speech) Well, Georgie boy had lots of big ambitions In spite of something funny in his past...... GEORGE: (Quietly warning) Martha .... MARTHA: Which Georgie boy here turned into a novel ....His first attempt and also his last ....Hey!†   (source)
  • I think we both were aware that something beyond just friendship could have developed between us, but we consciously avoided the possibility.†   (source)
  • He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself.†   (source)
  • — certain realizations emerged, as if they too had a life, a schedule urging them into the realm of conscious knowledge.†   (source)
  • Dr. Suzuki says somewhere that to be in a state of pure consciousness—satori—is to be with God before he said, Let there be light.†   (source)
  • Like most carpenters, he had an active dislike of painting, and also he was conscious that he wasn't very good at it.†   (source)
  • He was cashing in on this whole "Miracle of Modern Science" gig, and he'd only been conscious for a few months longer than I had.†   (source)
  • His voice was stark, bereft of the power of dissembling which full consciousness brings.†   (source)
  • He had lost consciousness, for how long he did not know—a few seconds, a few minutes, an hour or more.†   (source)
  • Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.†   (source)
  • Measure was barely conscious the rest of the way outside.†   (source)
  • But I was also beginning to noticesomething chilly and remote in an ambiance of such conscious perfection.†   (source)
  • And then, as consciousness came fully to him, he realized that of course he would keep his shirt on today.†   (source)
  • From the meanest creature one departs wiser, richer, more conscious ofone's blessings.†   (source)
  • You're in trouble," Oedipa told him, staring at the tube, conscious of his thigh, warm through his suit and her slacks.†   (source)
  • Ootek shuddered and began to scratch his stomach as if conscious of an itching sensation in that region.†   (source)
  • Since he was used to it, he did not heed, consciously at least, the sadness she could not keep back from her eyes.†   (source)
  • She paused, listening to her heartbeat, wondering if he could hear it, yet conscious that her voice still had not broken.†   (source)
  • A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began to write stories: getting my distance, a prerequisite of my understanding of human events, is the way I begin work.†   (source)
  • Now if there were one who had as much patience as zeal, he might awaken her to a consciousness of her immortal—†   (source)
  • The men in the other group were graver, cleaner-shaved, more educated in face, more conscious of their appearance.†   (source)
  • In the darkness of the sub-tropical night, George Greggson swam slowly upwards towards consciousness.†   (source)
  • Randy was conscious that the Henrys supplied more than their own share of food for the benefit of all.†   (source)
  • Every step required a conscious effort.†   (source)
  • CHAPUYS (Consciously shy) Sir Thomas, may I ask if you and the Cardinal parted, how shall I say, amicably?†   (source)
  • Her consciousness returned, she lay on Siddhartha's bed in the hut and bent over her stood Siddhartha, who used to love her so much.†   (source)
  • Consciousness is a light directed outward, it lights up the way ahead of us so that we don't stumble.†   (source)
  • John Toomey had been no writer, but there was a consciousness of destiny in the man, and even a vein of poetry.†   (source)
  • He was conscious.†   (source)
  • Because if he'd been conscious they're sure he wouldn't have been thrown out of the auto, for one thing.†   (source)
  • The boy was dozing fitfully, half conscious of vague noises and black forms moving up from some dark part of him into the light.†   (source)
  • JEAN: [to BERENGER, almost shouting to make himself heard above the noise which he has not become conscious of] True, I was not invited.†   (source)
  • She was delirious with the fever that comes before red measles, but she was fully conscious all the week I was gone and the week after we were home when she could not come near the new baby or me.†   (source)
  • I profoundly respect public opinion, but I believe that there is in conscious rectitude of purpose a sustaining power which will support a man of ordinary firmness under any circumstances whatever.†   (source)
  • You see, Commissioner, even Reich himself was not consciously aware of why he had murdered D'Courtney.†   (source)
  • It was a move without conscious effort; they all did it, to help them understand the news they had heard on the radio a moment before.†   (source)
  • He had never so much as thought about it consciously, but he had felt it and was afraid.†   (source)
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