self-conscious

They make me self-conscious, or they make me inspired or something, which is not how I want to feel necessarily after a long day at work just watching something.

Freed from the tyrannical control that his father Murry had exerted over The Beach Boys’ direction as their manager, Wilson made a self-conscious stab at greatness.

Shame is a self-conscious emotion, meaning it has a lot to do with how we see ourselves.

“You can get a little self-conscious. At the beginning, I f— something up — nothing nobody would know, but we would know — and Flea kind of looked at me,” he said of the Chili Peppers’ bassist.

For much of Chiles’ life, however, the body that helped propel her to athletic greatness made her feel “ugly” and self-conscious.