When you deny, deflect or self-insult, others may misinterpret your actions and think of you as ungrateful or insecure.
The movie's blend of self-aware insult humor, self-indulgent grossness, celebrity cameos and strenuous whimsy represents a fairly standard recipe for sketch-comedy-derived feature films.
Opportunities for provocation and topical satire are squandered in this lazy, lumbering exercise in semi-self-conscious insult humor.
Self still insults his cabbie, but only after he's been safely delivered to his hotel, and only after the director has spent too much time proving that he can pastiche the more pensive passages of Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
At the song's climax, with the choir's exuberant support, I almost expect her to overcome the self-inflicted insults to her instrument and reputation; and blast into a past when she starred opposite Kevin Costner as the powerhouse siren.
At same time, since voters find allegations of self-interest "insulting, regardless of how well the accounts explain the facts," they "engage in blatant spin to hide their real motives, usually without even being aware that this is what they're doing".
In an article by author Laurie Gough titled Self-Publishing: An Insult to the Written Word, she argues that self-publishing is devaluing to the art of writing, disrespectful, and less desirable than sharing "a cabin on a Disney cruise with Donald Trump".
Meera, being her respectful self, bears the insults silently.
They'll call it silly or self indulgent, they'll insult your work and tell you art isn't real work, call you a fraud, call you lazy, try to tell you to go back to being whoever they thought you were.
Later Evelyn was insulted by another beloved, Robert Furer, and he was shotdead by Solomon Goldstein, who was him self beloved until he insulted Evelyn & was beaten up by Pittsburgh Phil Strauss & taken on a one-way ride to Sullivan County.
"Crude historical determinism is mostly a self-fulfilling prophecy, an insult to the magic of the literary imagination," Huang insists.
