Some tried to defuse tensions with self-derision.
Rice is the most alive person on stage because his self-derision is so accurate.
By Richard Brody February 23, 2018 The new science-fiction movie, starring Natalie Portman, turns a potentially cosmic vision into an unintentional comedy of self-derision.
The latter, which is big in Australia, is intended to bring a "little bit of self-derision in a serious world of wine".
He played the part in a manner that recalled some of the characters of Evelyn Waugh or Peter Fleming, a British travel writer of the 1930's who combined parody, wit and self-derision to famous effect.
Rather, "Annihilation" squeezes and narrows its characters and the world at large to fit the tight confines of a plot issuing from the big deal and turns a potentially cosmic vision of metaphysical distortion into an unintentional comedy of self-derision.
With a fine balance between current affairs and fart jokes, self-mockery and derision of celebrities (Graham Norton is 'like a pink jackboot stamping on a human face for all eternity'), Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer: The Opera, delivers so many good lines at such high density that the audience barely has time to keep up.
When AECOM Technology Corporation (the architectural firm designing Qatar's 45,000-seat Al Wakrah Stadium -- a $120 billion project planned to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup) unveiled a concept video, it was met with stunning derision from self-appointed critics on the Internet.
But for many, these mortification-of-the-flesh narratives are not galvanizing, but toxic, undermining their hard-won self-esteem and exacerbating the derision they face.
Calhoun's age, 70, and uncertain health will probably spare him much derision for the self-serving timing of his sudden retirement, announced Thursday, along with the appointment of the assistant coach and former Husky Kevin Ollie to replace him on a one-year, $625,000 contract.
