self-deprecatingly

It's a psychologized style that is in many ways indebted to the work of the filmmaker Ross McElwee, whose self-deprecatingly cadenced voice-overs sound almost like a model for Mr. Block's.

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And the narrative voice is friendly and self-deprecatingly funny.

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In my experience, people who refer to themselves as geeks usually do so self-deprecatingly whereas people who refer to themselves as nerds do so loudly and smugly.

Venn Diagram: The Difference Between Geek, Nerd, Dork and Dweeb | /Film 2010

His accounts of life at St Swithin's, a fictional London teaching hospital, make the NHS seem harmlessly blundering and the doctors self-deprecatingly noble.

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Now that I think of it I have actually referred to myself as both a nerd and a geek self-deprecatingly.

Venn Diagram: The Difference Between Geek, Nerd, Dork and Dweeb | /Film 2010

"We curators are bean counters," Smith says self-deprecatingly.

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Trent, I want more modulationThe bleak themes and frozen landscape of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo inspired Reznor to start off with what he calls "Eraserhead drones" one track on the Lost Highway soundtrack was self-deprecatingly titled Various Ominous Drones.

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Please vote in today's poll and comment, self-deprecatingly or otherwise, in the Comments section.

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"We curators are bean counters," Smith says self-deprecatingly.

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Anyways, I have referred to myself as a nerd self-deprecatingly.

Venn Diagram: The Difference Between Geek, Nerd, Dork and Dweeb | /Film 2010