Sentence examples similar to self irony from inspiring English sources

I think I have enough self-irony to understand what's going on".

A stout sense of humour and self-irony is the least most Israelis expect of Gazans.

One difference is that he lacks the well-known self-irony of his idols.

Ms. Powers even possesses that rare commodity in a cultural memoirist, self-irony.

It's the hilarity of bluff and double bluff, and the pleasure of self-irony.

He enjoys his celebrity, but the sardonic self-irony of the book seeks to persuade us otherwise.

Nigel Planer strikes the right note of self-irony as Pop, an ageing version of Neil the hippie.

But while he's a long way from charming, there is a fraction more self-irony to Shaffir's act than Burr's.

THOMAS/ORTIZ DANCE The work of the partners Ted Thomas and Frances Ortiz does not suffer from the self-irony typical of many strains of downtown dance.

Without a trace of the self-irony endemic among today's apprentice writers, he obsesses on the fallen state of society and sings of his own misunderstood nobility.

But that is easy to forgive, because hers is such a compelling comic personality, mixing faux-naivety and self-irony, critical intelligence and blatant affront.