He clenched his teeth and grinned harder in self-mockery.
She all but wrung her hands in self-mockery.
The mockery ends in self-mockery as one of the Utopians observes, "Nice people like these are always all right, unless you take them off guard".
This leads to a tone which is perhaps lacking in self-mockery, but..
Exhibiting his skill for self-mockery, he played himself in an episode of Seth McFarlane's series Family Guy (2011) and made memorable cameo appearances in McFarlane's feature comedies Ted (2012) and A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014).
Here we see Marx in moments of youthful rapture, in periods of despair, in maneuvers of blatant hypocrisy, in outbursts of self-mockery.
Apparently, he made his way not through novelty or superior skill but by droll self-mockery, which sometimes involved letting the audience see how a stunt was rigged.
Mr. Hyde Pierce strikes the right note of self-mockery in this speech.
Even of self-mockery, in the poetically pushed rhyme word "vaster," and the ladylike, pinkies-up "shan't".
He was effective in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and in "127 Hours," in which he redeemed, with self-mockery, the absurd situation of a mountaineer trapped at the bottom of a slot canyon.
"La-La La-La Land its suggestion of kookiness, is (mildly, jokingly) deprecatory, and I don't think I've heard Angelenos use it except in explicit self-mockery".
