How to Use unselfconscious in a Sentence

unselfconscious

adjective
  • Not a lot of teens would be unselfconscious enough to do something like that, but Benjamin wasn’t embarrassed.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 21 June 2019
  • Her son was always an unselfconscious mix of strength and sweetness, Morency Gannon said.
    — Laura Crimaldi, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • But there’s a similar unselfconscious art-nerd energy going on here.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Then the hope is that over time the company starts integrating that into their work and the performance in an unselfconscious way.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Just a sunset, a stage, a really good story and a troupe of irresistibly unselfconscious extroverts to tell it.
    — Margaret Gray, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Gong and his family members are aware of the filmmakers, even mention the filming, yet remain largely unselfconscious in front of the cameras.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The designer said he was inspired by the unselfconscious, playful sexiness found in the early James Bond films.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 7 June 2022
  • Sharing selfies and urban legends, the four friends are an unselfconscious sorority, flirting with the camera and making out with abandon.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Franky, playing the father with unselfconscious charm, is contagiously cheerful and carefree.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2018
  • But the quality of eccentricity here is such that people are rather gentle and slightly unselfconscious and, oddly enough, quite unsnobby.
    — Simon Usborne, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Houston is radiant and unselfconscious in front of the camera, writes Marshall, who regarded her with maternal concern.
    — Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2022
  • And growing up seeing these strong women playing these really complicated and weird and funny, unselfconscious characters was so great.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Elijah Rayman is totally unselfconscious as Oliver, playing to his fellow cast members instead of working the crowd for cheers and tears.
    — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2018
  • How about Amy Sedaris and Maria Bamford and their unselfconscious and uncomfortable personae?
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
  • Simmons is marvelously unselfconscious as an actress playing a highly self-conscious artist who likes to re-create classic movie pairings with herself in the roles of assorted screen goddesses.
    — Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
  • That comes with a splash of defensiveness — the desire to protect this unavoidable, immutable and generally unselfconscious presentation that signals a whole way of life.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Instagram feed has been a constant stream of unselfconscious best-life-living throughout lockdown, but on Tuesday the lifestyle media mogul and former model might have outdone herself.
    — April Long, Town & Country, 23 July 2020
  • Through protest and through quarantine, these spontaneous, unselfconscious gestures of familiarity and kinship feel necessary for our survival.
    — Safy-Hallan Farah, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2021
  • To advertise that confidence with an unselfconscious, open-mouthed, haplessly disarming smile — to resist the urge, in other words, to fake an air of supercilious self-importance — is the very best thing.
    — Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Justin Vernon — the band’s frontman and creative engine — is singing more directly than ever before, and the production captures hope, thrills and a kind of unselfconscious exultation.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • None of this would work at all if it weren’t pinned to the unselfconscious gaze of Fuki (delightful newcomer Yui Suzuki), 11 years old and already an original.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 17 May 2025
  • Although Newsom is intermittently aware of his great privileges, the occasional unselfconscious sentence slips out.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Sallée’s model’s pose, with her arms up, removing the pins from her hairpiece, is more reminiscent of Degas’s unselfconscious bathers than of Ingres’s chilly neoclassicism.
    — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The actors, Vinberg foremost among them, are wonderfully unselfconscious, preoccupied not with the cliches of adolescence—looks, for one—but with less tangible qualities.
    — Eve MacSweeney, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2018
  • But, unlike Bywater, these blocks were alive with all manner of people and activity, dynamic and unselfconscious, the corner stores all still corner stores, not an Edison bulb nor craft cocktail nor subway tile in sight.
    — Anne Gisleson, Curbed, 23 May 2018
  • Its most recent albums have been welcoming and unselfconscious; when performing, the band acts as though its mixture of emotional appeal, pop kitsch, and political sloganeering is utterly unremarkable.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The artist accompanied the releases across 2020 with a string of videos that found the lanky, unselfconscious Gendel dancing and vogueing in various environmentsand cruising in a low rider.
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The insecure Earl hates himself; Morse’s blissfully unselfconscious Ogie is completely comfortable with himself, freeing him to madly and selflessly love another.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
  • This ubiquity of unselfconscious ignorance to me explains why the commenter thought that informed pragmatic international intervention was so obviously possible.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2013
  • Before an injury took her out of the season, Tiler Peck, partnered by the scrupulous Tyler Angle, displayed a sweeping, unselfconscious musicality seemingly driven from deep within.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024

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