He also writes, "I find these sorts of cute, self-referential paradoxes irksome, too — at least now that I'm over 30 I do".
So we're now only a few days away from seeing every single brand on the face of the planet employ a freshly graduated innocent to snarl up all social media with a deluge of infuriatingly cute self-referential quirk.
But that neatly planned headshot or cute self-pic may ignore an important factor in how people judge trustworthiness, attractiveness, and competence: distance from the camera.
Google's cute self-driving cars, Apple's final conclusion of its purchase of Beats, and the controversial topic of founders misbehaving, either in the past or present were our topics.
He described Johnson's exploration of the politics of race as "sloganeering or cute self-advertising" in his two-dimensional works, and his apolytical three-dimensional installations as "glib and superficial" representations.
I've left the oven on overnight and locked my keys in the car and oftentimes have had to work really, really hard to recall the name of an extremely famous celebrity -- let's say George Clooney -- by first thinking of his attributes: handsome, charming, does that cute self-deprecating shake of his head, first name starts with a G...oh, yeah, George Clooney!
I no longer hide the fact that I'm a disabled woman in my dating profiles -- it is there for the world to see and read about (in a cute, self-deprecating way), but it's not a solution to my dating woes.
The balloons, the charmingly ambitious plants, the gimmicky gallery-cum-storefront-cum-hoarder's-paradise: was it all too precious, self-consciously cute?
"Cute, cuddly self-deprecating Americans".
She can do things with her body that from most other singers would be cute and self-conscious.
This could have been merely cute and self-regarding, but in its easy vivacity, Submarine comes across as the most playful, least neurotic of film-buff films.
