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Her ambition was masked by a veneer of elegant self-deprecation.
He portrayed himself with self-deprecation even as he set about building something ambitious.
When we began the interview, he warned me, with merry self-deprecation, that he suffers from "nominal aphasia," or the inability to reproduce names.
Afterward, he said he thought the president's self-deprecation made him seem "more likable."
He seems to understand the right balance of self-deprecation to mild insult to tell effective jokes in the workplace.
But then, as the guitars build and then explode into a wall of noise, the self-deprecation morphs into a declaration of reluctant self-love.
His candidness to the point of self-deprecation was viewed as a coping mechanism, but it was generally respected by those around him.
I am not laughing with you, in other words, since you seem capable of neither doubt nor self-deprecation.
From this self-loving place of your spirit, you can continue your soul's quest toward self-improvement without self-deprecation.
It would be disconcerting if not for the morsels of self-deprecation that he often sprinkles into conversation.
But sometimes one wishes for even more self-deprecation than that.
Be skeptical and your own worst critic, without indulging in fake self-deprecation.
He makes no more attempts at humor and self-deprecation; instead, his tone becomes curt and his words more adversarial.
It's all about the voice, the wit, the gentle self-deprecation, the utter lack of sanctimony.
She recalls the moment with characteristic self-deprecation.
It's the bleakest kind of self-deprecation.
Leaning back in his chair, he spoke softly, pausing frequently to cough -- he had a cold -- or to chuckle, in self-deprecation, at his own philosophical eloquence.
Dependent variables were the factor scores for each of the following: self-deprecation, self-confidence, and fatalistic belief, respectively.
According to this understanding of dignity, servility and self-deprecation are moral defects.
