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  • The onscreen Loy that most of us cherish is captured in that self-amused assessment.

    The Queen of Comity Alexandra Mullen 2011

  • She somehow manages to be impetuous, cheeky, sensitive, shy, smug, erotically combustible and self-amused, all at the same delirious time.

    Singing Into Retirement David Littlejohn 2012

  • Also on the bill is Don Siegel's "Charley Varrick," with Mr. Baker as a demented and highly self-amused hit man tracking master thief Walter Matthau.

    Watching in Another Dimension Steve Dollar 2011

  • “I am the uninvited,” the voice replies, self-amused.

    When Rose Wakes Christopher Golden 2010

  • The film at hand is Claude Chabrol's Comedy of Power, wherein Isabelle Huppert's workaholic avenging angel, dangerously underfed and self-amused, is fabulously, pathologically invulnerable - even as the murder threats pour in.

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/8. 2007

  • Mr. Fraser hits a silly symphony of right notes; he's lightly amused by the preposterous surroundings, but never self-amused.

    Two winners, one dud 2008

  • Mr. Fraser hits a silly symphony of right notes; he's lightly amused by the preposterous surroundings, but never self-amused.

    In Erratic 'Dave,' 2008

  • I usually don't have much use for Time Out New York, what with its vacuous, trend-sucking content, buzz-word journalism and general tone of wise-ass, self-amused, hipster irreverence.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • I usually don't have much use for Time Out New York, what with its vacuous, trend-sucking content, buzz-word journalism and general tone of wise-ass, self-amused, hipster irreverence.

    Soul Patrol Brooks of Sheffield 2007

  • Landis may have directed AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, but his bright and snappy, freshly-acted, self-amused style of direction stands at odds with the basic tenets of the genre.

    MASTERS OF HORROR: A New Season 2006

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