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He certainly did not mean it as a term of self-derision, but as a guide to his working theory—to reduce each problem to its simplest terms, to its essential elements.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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He certainly did not mean it as a term of self-derision, but as a guide to his working theory—to reduce each problem to its simplest terms, to its essential elements.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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The latter, which is big in Australia, is intended to bring a "little bit of self-derision in a serious world of wine".
New wines from the old world bring cheer to hard-pressed retail sector 2011
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The latter, which is big in Australia, is intended to bring a "little bit of self-derision in a serious world of wine".
New wines from the old world bring cheer to hard-pressed retail sector 2011
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A sloppy drive on No. 15, when the CBS microphones clearly picked up his self-derision: Dumb ---!
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"Responding to a crank caller," she said with self-derision.
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René Magritte, the sardonic Surrealist painter, and Hergé, the sensitive cartoonist who invented Tintin, had little in common save a wacky sense of humor and a typically Belgian sense of self-derision.
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There has been an epochal change even from 20 years ago, when female stand-up comics mostly complained about the female condition—cellulite and cellophane—and Joan Rivers and Roseanne Barr perfectly represented the two poles of acceptable female humor: feline self-derision or macho-feminist ferocity.
Who Says Women Aren't Funny? Melissa Silverstein 2008
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It could be that after decades of insecurity — and self-derision — women finally feel they can look good and still be taken seriously as comics.
Who Says Women Aren't Funny? Stanley, Alessandra 2008
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There has been an epochal change even from 20 years ago, when female stand-up comics mostly complained about the female condition — cellulite and cellophane — and Joan Rivers and Roseanne Barr perfectly represented the two poles of acceptable female humor: feline self-derision or macho-feminist ferocity.
Who Says Women Aren't Funny? Stanley, Alessandra 2008
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