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‘Some new beach houses are consciously designed to emulate the original fibro shack, seeking new expressions for this simplest of all recreational structures.’
‘Others were consciously placed in traffic circles without regard to how this would alter memorial practice.’
‘His book represents this consciously deceptive strategy in its boldest form.’
‘Napoleon consciously followed the example of Louis XIV in his self-aggrandizing use of art.’
‘It is rare for artists to set out consciously to make their gardens into works of art.’
‘In the atlas, he consciously sought a representational language that could pictorially translate what he imagined were the unadulterated perceptions of sight.’
‘Researchers consciously avoided grouping all students with identical majors in the same focus groups.’
‘That was the first time I decided consciously to be a rancher.’
‘He consciously opted to preserve the authenticity of the journal by maintaining the original grammar and spelling.’
‘These monographs consciously build upon the important urban histories of the 1980s and 1990s.’
1.1In a way that is directly perceptible to and under the control of the person concerned.
‘most players don't think consciously about a throw’
‘we don't consciously perceive everything that happens to us’
‘We're not consciously aware of doing it, but it's a gesture that is duplicated by every culture on Earth.’
‘Many women, though probably not consciously, are willing to settle in a sensible way for a less-than-ideal husband.’
‘He did not himself consciously think of her as either a sexed or a gendered being.’
‘She may not consciously realize that there are some rather observant young men that position themselves in low places for observation of good-looking women.’
‘They may not consciously think "I need something to control so I will get a pet," but the fact remains that these people keep a pet to have a living thing under their control.’
‘The vast majority of participants became consciously aware of the cue-target relationship during the experiment.’
‘We consciously process eight frames of image per second, while our 21st-century media travel much more quickly.’
‘Most of your suggestions are things I'm already doing but hadn't consciously realized until you mentioned them.’
‘I love the thunder and lightning of romance, and though I don't consciously think about it, I do definitely miss it.’
‘Living in a purely mechanical, almost absent way has a dangerous side effect—namely the loss of consciously experiencing any given moment.’