| The wry Irishman breaks into a gentle smirk, conveying the whiff of arch self-deprecation. |
| The modesty and self-deprecation in the Michigan correspondence will attract notice. |
| His eye for detail, his re-creation of dialogue, his ironic tone, his self-deprecation, all serve a memoirist well. |
| So going into this game against Uruguay, there was none of the usual English self-deprecation. |
| He delivers certain lines with cutting self-deprecation, others with calculated softness. |
| Neither my wife nor I are into self-deprecation or make any lame attempts to be self-effacing. |
