Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To separate or free from (one- or it-) self; transform into a different self.
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Examples
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Throughout the film, Springsteen and the band members seem entirely unself-conscious, clearly oblivious to Rebo's presence, and completely immersed in the work at hand.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Throughout the film, Springsteen and the band members seem entirely unself-conscious, clearly oblivious to Rebo's presence, and completely immersed in the work at hand.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Throughout the film, Springsteen and the band members seem entirely unself-conscious, clearly oblivious to Rebo's presence, and completely immersed in the work at hand.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Throughout the film, Springsteen and the band members seem entirely unself-conscious, clearly oblivious to Rebo's presence, and completely immersed in the work at hand.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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He struck me as not only a stupid man, but an unself-knowing man, unself-aware.
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He struck me as not only a stupid man, but an unself-knowing man, unself-aware.
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The unlikely hero was Gump, unself-conscious in his Army dress uniform with combat medals at a peace rally on the Washington Mall.
Why Men Love War 2010
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"Avatar" 's desire to have its anthropological cake and eat it too suggests something deeply unself-aware and disturbingly unresolved within Cameron himself.
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With its unself-consciously quaint domestic and commercial architecture (still a lot left, especially away from the bay) Ocean Springs reminded me of a typical town in upstate New York, crossed with Lafayette, the bustling little city at the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country.
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"Avatar" 's desire to have its anthropological cake and eat it too suggests something deeply unself-aware and disturbingly unresolved within Cameron himself.
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The good life becomes available to us, she thinks, when we are able to deflate the brooding, grasping self (“unself”), and open our eyes to reality — an idea perhaps reminiscent of the Buddhist concept of
Iris Murdoch on the Morality of Attention, and the Hostile Mother-in-Law | Philosophy Break Jack Maden 2024
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