| The wry Irishman breaks into a gentle smirk, conveying the whiff of arch self-deprecation. |
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| His eye for detail, his re-creation of dialogue, his ironic tone, his self-deprecation, all serve a memoirist well. |
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| He delivers certain lines with cutting self-deprecation, others with calculated softness. |
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| Despite the occasional jab at reigniting the battle of the sexes, the unspoken theme of the evening seemed to be cheerful self-deprecation. |
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| In a recent self-examination of what makes me laugh, one of the key ingredients I came up with is self-deprecation. |
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| Neither my wife nor I are into self-deprecation or make any lame attempts to be self-effacing. |
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| The most important weapon in the arsenal of the satirist is a rifle made entirely of self-deprecation. |
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| A master of self-deprecation, Sloane Crosley is faced with a baffling number of choices. |
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| Her act is still female biased but her appeal crosses the genders and her self-deprecation is acid sharp as ever. |
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| His comedic style is marked mostly by self-deprecation, dryness, and yelling. |
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| The huge work pressure the tutorial system creates, can lead students into a downward spiral of self-deprecation and loss of confidence. |
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| His was a speech laced with much humour and more than a little self-deprecation. |
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| There is a rueful self-deprecation at play here, at odds with a quiet desperation. |
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| Blair writes unaffectedly and charts her personal growth with honest self-deprecation. |
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| England's World Cup song should embrace the national pastimes of miserabilism and self-deprecation. |
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| He perfected an air of modesty and if his jokes fell flat he had a comical line in self-deprecation. |
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| I think this is a person to whom self-deprecation does not come easily. |
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| So going into this game against Uruguay, there was none of the usual English self-deprecation. |
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| Then, in that interview, the Oscar nominee took the self-deprecation shtick beyond any reasonable expectation. |
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| The demotic self-deprecation barely masks a vast ambition, which is a kind of deception in itself, or an artifice. |
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| His stock-in-trade of arch self-deprecation doesn't cut any slack up here. |
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| With his reluctant audience unable to muster up the required level of self-deprecation to laugh at the joke, he just cackles away to himself regardless. |
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| The newly promoted person may also attempt to minimize the status difference through self-deprecation and a surfeit of leniency toward the new supervisees. |
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| In the others, self-deprecation makes reference to disillusionment because the artistic processes that I subject myself to seem trivial. |
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| Emotional concerns consistent with depression including withdrawal, anxiety, self-deprecation, and social alienation are also represented. |
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| A stranger to false modesty and phony self-deprecation, her ego seemed both colossal and, in its artlessness, endearing. |
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| A moment of self-deprecation or metafiction? |
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| English self-deprecation was nowhere in evidence. |
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| The English approach is to swaddle any attacks with disarming self-deprecation. |
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| She looks to be in terrific shape, but self-deprecation is her metier. |
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| There is a peculiarly comic awkwardness to his paintings, with self-deprecation balancing self-assertion. |
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| He's a charismatic, funny performer who isn't above a spot of self-deprecation. |
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| Jenny, who became the first woman ever to win the prestigious Perrier Award, does a good line in self-deprecation. |
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| It's debatable whether people really talk to one another with such self-deprecation and wit. |
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| The stigma expressed itself in various forms, including repeated and chronic self-harm experiences, self-deprecation, the fear of being judged, and the hurtful experience of judgmental attitudes. |
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| An interview is no place for self-deprecation or excessive modesty. |
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| Persistent, detailed, passionate and sometimes politely menacing, the missives the Prince of Wales sends to Whitehall often coat strident demands for government action in self-deprecation and flashes of humour. |
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| The successful memoirist is the one who explores self in ways in which others can see perhaps a glimmer of their own selves and who retains throughout the redeeming quality of self-deprecation. |
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| The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure. |
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| You couldn't knock him for genuine charm and self-deprecation that won over the crowd. |
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| Gene's just like you see him on screen, full of himself but with an air of self-deprecation. |
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| In press conferences he has also revealed a streak of self-awareness, something approaching self-deprecation, that might make some want to airbrush his abrasiveness as simple larrikinism. |
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| Much of the material may be drawn from or inspired by their scripts for The Now Show, but their gently subversive humour and air of self-deprecation are ultimately engaging. |
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| With typical self-deprecation, Wainwright says this desire to continually reveal bits and pieces of his personal life may actually be a character flaw. |
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| Expect an assortment of jokes, stories, observations, ad-libs, one-liners, accents, theories, topical gags and self-deprecation from the laid-back gagsmith. |
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| Self-deprecation isn't part of the normal Emirati way of doing business. |
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| Self-deprecation resulting from less than inviting cultural messages is difficult to meliorate. |
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