self-amused

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