Both Judd's boxes and Hanson's figures impose themselves on viewers, inducing acute self-consciousness.

He talked too about himself, his own problem of identity: The exile's extraterritorial dilemma, heightened by the writer's acute self-consciousness.

I enter his salon with acute self-consciousness and receive a name tag with just my first name.

The hero, Francis Mayne, is suffering from the adolescent's emotional confusion and acute self-consciousness.

But, the results show, once overweight people get over the acute self-consciousness that keeps them, say, from exercising in public, they are often better able to keep to their fitness regime.

That was the trouble with this kind of acute self-consciousness.

In the meantime, Mr. Frank finds himself, after years in the public eye, trying to shake an acute self-consciousness.

So, with an acute self-consciousness, they made this Woodstock memorable.

These writers read their chosen texts through the twin lenses of biblical commentary and their own modern sensibilities, sharing an acute self-consciousness and an obsession with the implacabilities of history.

It pulls the rug out from under itself, displaying an acute self-consciousness about the work's constructed nature.