self-irony

With a small smile of self-irony, he turned and walked back toward his fortress.

They have one thing in common - heavy irony, self-irony and sarcasm.

One difference is that he lacks the well-known self-irony of his idols.

The former postman is not short of self-confidence, mixed with a nice line in self-irony.

They haven't developed their sense of self-irony yet.

I love the self-irony you find in England.

As he was a noted satirist, this could have been a deprecating self-irony.

The psychologist's contempt for others contains a grain of secret and unlimited self-irony.

He did have some self-irony, so we teased him about it a bit, and he tolerated that.

Political and corporate aides have all the requisites for success except the most important one: a complete absence of self-irony.

It combines artwork, design and fashion with photography, philosophy and self-irony.

She used metaphor judiciously, and managed to balance her introspection with a healthy level of self-irony.

So militarised is his operation, he calls himself – without you sense much in the way of self-irony – "the field marshal".

Ms. Powers even possesses that rare commodity in a cultural memoirist, self-irony.

His acts often consist of self-irony, flashbacks to his childhood and political considerations.

Self-irony is an expression of despair.

Despite this ominous tone, the diary also reveals Sebastian's unflagging sense of humor and self-irony.

Mr. Baker's boyish enthusiasm and lack of self-irony seem part of his appeal.

This self-irony and mental undercutting lead to a possibly intentional obliqueness but also distance the viewer from the work.

Self-irony is made up of sighs, not of smiles, even though its sighs are stifled.

A liberal dose of self-irony .

On many occasions there are forms of strange humor and/or self-irony in the music or in the track titles.

"Dmitry Anatolyevich is no stranger to self-irony," she said in comments published on Thursday.

So filled with self-irony.

In his works, Tom of Finland utilized the self-irony and humor typical of subcultures.