| Her act is still female biased but her appeal crosses the genders and her self-deprecation is acid sharp as ever. |
| He delivers certain lines with cutting self-deprecation, others with calculated softness. |
| His eye for detail, his re-creation of dialogue, his ironic tone, his self-deprecation, all serve a memoirist well. |
| In a recent self-examination of what makes me laugh, one of the key ingredients I came up with is self-deprecation. |
| Neither my wife nor I are into self-deprecation or make any lame attempts to be self-effacing. |
| Despite the occasional jab at reigniting the battle of the sexes, the unspoken theme of the evening seemed to be cheerful self-deprecation. |
