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Intelligence, humor, blocked ambition, self-irony—they're all contained in Francesca's quick response when Robert asks if she has any plans for the afternoon: "I was just going to have some iced tea and then...split the atom, but that can wait."
'A Separation' Comes Together Exceptionally Joe Morgenstern 2011
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He became, if truth be told, a bit of a blimp and ruefully remarked – with the quiet self-irony that often underlay his bombastic style – that he sometimes felt he should carry "some sort of rectal thermometer, with which to test the rate at which I am becoming an old fart".
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Ms. Parker is a graceful comedienne, and it's no news that Mr. Willis is a past master of delicate — yes, delicate — self-irony, so their characters generate welcome fizz in the course of a fraught relationship.
'Red' Alert: Old Stars Fire Up Thriller Joe Morgenstern 2010
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"His dry humor, his gift of self-irony and his unmistakable down-to-earthness helped him in that."
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Everyone is haunted by something in Conor McPherson's "The Eclipse," a leisurely and quite lovely drama that honors the conventions of gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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Everyone is haunted by something in Conor McPherson's "The Eclipse," a leisurely and quite lovely drama that honors the conventions of gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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"His dry humor, his gift of self-irony and his unmistakable down-to-earthness helped him in that."
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"His dry humor, his gift of self-irony and his unmistakable down-to-earthness helped him in that."
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And then, with equal parts seriousness and self-irony, the singer-songwriter declares, "I am the victim of such a lascivious beauty."
Thomas Gladysz: "I Am the Victim of Such a Lascivious Beauty": Rufus Wainwright on Louise Brooks 2010
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Everyone is haunted by something in Conor McPherson's "The Eclipse," a leisurely and quite lovely drama that honors the conventions of gothic ghost stories without the slightest stain of self-irony.
'Hubble': Heavenly Ticket to Space Joe Morgenstern 2010
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