Sentence examples similar to comical self from inspiring English sources

After all, a village is a petty place — filled with old grudges, comical self-importance and imagined fears.

What's more, despite their many faults — from comical self-regard to a habit of ignoring regulations found to be inconvenient — tech executives are an optimistic bunch.

Standing 18 ½ feet tall and weighing 6,613 pounds, it is a comical self-portrait of the artist sitting in a lotus position, perched on a lotus pad.

It began with the almost comical self-inflation of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns framing him at the Democratic convention.

Along with Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, Deadpool sees Marvel go down a more comical, self-referential route, sending up the genre and laughing at its tropes.

Dyer is becoming, in these latter pieces of memoir and comical self-observation, a character just as arch and seductive as that professional self-effacer from the previous generation, Alan Bennett.

The show's earliest pictures are canvases from the 30's, including a painting of a nude in a life drawing class, a comical self-portrait and a swimming hole scene; they closely resemble Avery's flattened representational paintings.

This degree of comical self-absorption is American to the core.Donald Justice's "New and Selected Poems" (a selection of which Anvil Press has published in Britain as "Orpheus Hesitated") bring to mind, in their grace, polish and suavity, and in the absorbing intelligence of their meditative calm, the poetic landscapes of another great ruminative poet of Florida, Wallace Stevens.

He started early but lived with the sense of being a latecomer; under his riotous frivolity and comical self-display, there's the stubborn and anguished soul of an artist who hides in plain sight while facing the enormous phenomena, whether monstrous or joyful, that life has forced upon him.

But nothing like as huge as in Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy with which Nelsons ended the concert, his superb performance urging the music on to one excess after another, while ensuring that every texture was wonderfully balanced, though still failing to overcome the work's overriding sense of comical self-indulgence.

A little comical self-critique is most certainly called for.