Her tone is lightly tremulous - as if resting on a joke that will surface at some point and capsize us all - and although the 51-year-old has been lauded by John Updike, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other grand institutions, she knows the value of self-dismissal.
You can imagine the sense of deflation in the England dressing room after the two self-inflicted dismissals - their faint hopes of saving the game all but extinguished in two moments of madness.
Writer quotes some of the regulars, listing "Ecomium" "Rhetorical monologue," "Historical Perspective," "Sweeping dismissal," "Self-analysis," & "Idle observation".
They seem to make the case that we're inexplicably intent on engineering our own expulsion from the garden, in a kind of late-breaking, self-inflicted Old Testament dismissal.
The next dismissal was self-inflicted.
Accepting the alliance with customary boldness and self-confidence, he averted dismissal by the King and embarked upon war.
Martyn is troubled by the same affliction as David Gower, a naturally good technique and ease of movement that makes dismissal look self-inflicted.
It was a shame his dismissal was self-inflicted, caught off a top edge on 88 as he went to pull a ball from Plunkett and realising instantly he had made a mistake.
Last year's two biggest tracks, Skepta's Shutdown and Stormzy's Shut Up, were excellent, but cleaved to the style's two central themes of self-aggrandisement and the dismissal of rivals.
First, the dismissal of self-published books in a grand sweeping statement is irresponsible of a modern newspaper editor.
Spitzer dismisses her dismissal.
