He had the unselfconsciousness of a child. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an unselfconscious manner. From Dictionary.com.
One of the strengths of her novel is its unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of Peyton Place] Reference
Having only just set out on the path to unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Having only just set out on the path to unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [bibi - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Working in a vacuum is good for me; it's as unselfconsciousness as you can get. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Kristin Hersh on Her New Book, Rat Girl] Reference
And there is something about the unselfconsciousness of people skating that gets to me. From Wordnik.com. [cliches] Reference
Exactly the caring and coddling that nurture love snuff out the unselfconsciousness of desire. From Wordnik.com. [Esther Perel: Mating In Captivity] Reference
One of the things we have to grow into unselfconsciousness about is the steady environment of others. From Wordnik.com. ['Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality] Reference
An energy we see throughout, but not with such vigor or focus, or perhaps unselfconsciousness--it goes!. From Wordnik.com. [Nibbling in other fields, 2] Reference
For in his wonderful "Finch", it is the indifference and unselfconsciousness of birds that he celebrates. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference
Here we have a self-consciousness, developed and controlled to the point when it becomes unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Maid in Waiting] Reference
They shuffled toward the barrel, favoring their individual arthritides with the unselfconsciousness of long resignation. From Wordnik.com. [And all the Stars a Stage]
No, it's not hanging in the Tate Modern - it's wandering around the ladies' changing room with the unselfconsciousness of Cro-Magnon Woman. From Wordnik.com. [David Lloyd's Names] Reference
I understand, though, the reticence--by identifying yourself, you may cause the person in question to stop blogging with as much candor and unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Privacy in public] Reference
Surprise is a big element in humor--we laugh in startlement-- and I suppose E.M.'s extreme competence and unselfconsciousness--as a woman--is a surprise in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Humor & Horror: Mike Nichols, My Mother, and the Subconscious] Reference
And for extended periods -- when it mattered -- we both managed to operate in that elusive zone of relaxed focus and unselfconsciousness that always produces the best golf. From Wordnik.com. [The Quest for Confidence] Reference
Elaine May's ability to channel a variety of real-life female characters with complete unselfconsciousness word check doesn't seem to like that word, but I do is a big thing that makes her funny. From Wordnik.com. [Humor & Horror: Mike Nichols, My Mother, and the Subconscious] Reference
The trouble with trying to explain this to Eleanor was that she had already had too many things explained to her, and the doctrine of unselfconsciousness can not be inculcated by an exploitation of it. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
A running joke on Twitter is all in good fun, but I find the unselfconsciousness of this little political gag to be a comforting reflection of the way that the larger trend around this election is moving as well. From Wordnik.com. [Yo Mama's So Fat... - Anil Dash] Reference
Hopefully the officialdom of it all will not ruin the spontaneity, the unselfconsciousness, the selflessness, the utter abandonment to the joy of the creative process of its early day practitioners like Ravenelle. From Wordnik.com. [Ducky...] Reference
Hawaii was beautiful, and its genius lay in its look, like a new flower opening, like a starfish cluster of fragile fluttering petals, whose bright primary colors gave it an air of unselfconsciousness and false innocence. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
The Rule suggests that if concern with right and reparation fills our horizon, the one thing that we shall not attain is unselfconsciousness – respect as another of those worn-smooth tools that are simply an extension of the body. From Wordnik.com. ['Shaping Holy Lives', a Conference on Benedictine Spirituality] Reference
You may give Nolan more credit as a filmmaker than I do: though improved, as you said, from Batman Begins, he's still made a bit of a patchwork here; but even then I find his blend of heavy thematic moralism and visual unselfconsciousness oddly appealing, like that of a 50s film noir director or a modern pulp writer. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Knight] Reference
'On the contrary, it's her unselfconsciousness that's the most surprising thing about her. From Wordnik.com. [The Convert] Reference
It was part of her unselfconsciousness not to guess why Althea's relation to her had slightly changed. From Wordnik.com. [Franklin Kane] Reference
Still, the piece, directed with genial unselfconsciousness by Don Chrichton, and costumed with flair by Bob. From Wordnik.com. [TheaterMania.com] Reference
"Nick's, a State Street institution in the classic diner / bar genre, has a welcoming unselfconsciousness about it". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Her careless air, too, was unattractive, -- for it was not the nonchalance of experience, but the unselfconsciousness of sheer ignorance of urban ways and manners. From Wordnik.com. [Patty and Azalea] Reference
The resulting photographs portray a casual unselfconsciousness, a trust in chance, a sympathetic acceptance of the human condition without judgment, pose, or artifice. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
It seemed to him that all the purity, and the beauty, and the whimsical unselfconsciousness, and the touchingness of youth that is divine, appeared in that little, almost comic action of the girl. From Wordnik.com. [A Spirit in Prison] Reference
To his mother he has credited most of his gifts as a writer, but to that childlike unselfconsciousness which he describes in his father, we are doubtless largely indebted for the candid self-analysis here given. From Wordnik.com. [Our Friend John Burroughs]
Mother's laughter was contagious, ending often in a spontaneous burst of song, for she had a wonderfully true and melodious voice and sang with as much abandon and unselfconsciousness as if she had been a lark in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.] Reference
Kook shows special sympathy for the naturalism (i. e unselfconsciousness) that appears in the lowest creatures in the world and in humanity — a sympathy nourished by the attitudes of philosophers such as Rousseau (Yaron 1974, 145) and Bergson (Iggerot ha-Re’ayah (IR) vol. 2, 300). From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.] Reference
Alan Bennett said in 1988: "The real solvent of class distinction is a proper measure of self-esteem - a kind of unselfconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
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