Sentence examples for self-mocking wit from inspiring English sources

Yet this with an ironic, self-mocking wit.

Beryl moved uniquely on the cusp between a finely self-mocking wit and steely seriousness.

Because his conservatism is imbued with an angular, self-mocking wit, which very nearly belies the down-home values being expressed, he catches readers up in the joke.

Ms. Zeta-Jones is as spirited and lovely as ever, but the movie is content to use her for her looks rather than for the arch, self-mocking wit that is her secret weapon as a comic actress.

Eric Mink from the New York Daily News, in a pre-premiere review, said that it "ingeniously grafts classic X-Files story elements and wry, self-mocking wit onto a delightfully fresh premise".

Much of what makes the book such an entertaining read is Leaf's self-mocking wit and humor, as he struggles, for example, through several humiliating episodes of chronic public flatulence that he attributes to his colitis.

He was funny about it, but I thought I detected an undertone of sadness beneath the self-mocking humor.

Mr. Zinn's script finds gently self-mocking humor in America's turn-of-the-century immigrant radicals.

It was all-purpose, conveying not just alarm but also scorn, surprise, skepticism, and delight in his own slightly self-mocking polysyllabic wit, and, along with the voice and the upper-class stammer, made him a favorite of night-club impressionists.

Probably because, through his great wit, the wonderful self-mocking way he talks about his work and himself, I learned so much, I didn't really need anything more.

Marcy Freedman's "Boring and Confusing" (2005), a self-mocking video, adds wit and humor to the selection.