self-aware
Example Sentences
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Mr. Stuart is an outstanding, enthusiastic and refreshingly self-aware scholar.
In the audiobook recording of this surprising and intricate story, Ms. Entwistle’s words come across as those of a small person who is confidingly self-aware.
They are surprisingly self-aware and, with prompting, willing to trash talk the competition.
B.J. irritates the other characters with yet another drum solo, the self-aware jokes about his self-centeredness would land better if “K-Pops!” wasn’t convinced that the audience wants as much of him on-screen as possible.
From Los Angeles Times
The teens were almost precociously self-aware, which admittedly made us roll our eyes at some of the dialogue on occasion.
From BBC
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