Meanings of unconscious effort in English

Marcie patted the seat beside her, an unconscious effort to find her husband's hand.

He wrinkled his nose in an unconscious effort to work his glasses back up.

But he had only been dizzy with the unconscious effort he had made, and presently he rested on his own hand again.

For the first day, there had been an unconscious effort to keep a consistent physical orientation-feettoward the floor, head toward the ceiling.

Isabelle shot her hand out in a near unconscious effort to increase her power, commanding the water in Stefan's body to do her bidding-tofreeze.

He would scarcely have made it, she told herself, with an unconscious effort to silence unacknowledged misgivings, if her fortune had been the sole attraction.

The strenuous industries of this world are man's unconscious efforts to preserve his increasing numbers from annihilation.