hyperconscious

The effect is one in which we are conscious, if not "hyperconscious," of two media at work.

Blake's Contraries Game 2005

He was hyperconscious of what he called “the tremendous anti-Latin feeling” of California and Los Angeles.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

When tragedy does occur, it is more often than not given a black-comedic inflection — as in works by Wallace, Antrim, Eggers, and their ilk — not because the authors can't do powerful conflict and emotion, necessarily, but because the hyperconscious self-reflexiveness of their style is hard to turn off.

These Kids Today 2008

When tragedy does occur, it is more often than not given a black-comedic inflection — as in works by Wallace, Antrim, Eggers, and their ilk — not because the authors can't do powerful conflict and emotion, necessarily, but because the hyperconscious self-reflexiveness of their style is hard to turn off.

SeeLight: 2008

Daily life is an ongoing process of internalized discipline: parents teach their children to act as though the child next to them but in a different city isn't there; adults become hyperconscious of how long they look in a particular direction, or in what direction they step; and eventually, residents of each city come to embody their citizenship in particular ways of movement.

The Little Professor: 2009

Daily life is an ongoing process of internalized discipline: parents teach their children to act as though the child next to them but in a different city isn't there; adults become hyperconscious of how long they look in a particular direction, or in what direction they step; and eventually, residents of each city come to embody their citizenship in particular ways of movement.

The City & The City 2009

Born in 1943 and raised in Chicago in a secular family hyperconscious of who was and who was not Jewish, Zimmerman confessed that she, too, made note of women who were:

Literature Scholars in the United States. 2009

Seminal Caucasian rappers like the Beastie Boys always seemed hyperconscious of their whiteness; when their first album came out in 1986, just about everyone assumed the Beastie Boys were mocking black culture.

Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009

Today, the guardians of political correctness are hyperconscious about race.

"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races." Ann Althouse 2009

Seminal Caucasian rappers like the Beastie Boys always seemed hyperconscious of their whiteness; when their first album came out in 1986, just about everyone assumed the Beastie Boys were mocking black culture.

Chuck Klosterman on Pop Chuck Klosterman 2009