But he steadfastly forbore to compose a more systematic study; he was forever skeptical of generalizations and he had a low opinion of the merely expository--what he called deprecatingly recitativo. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Writer Jessica Pressler says, "Philadelphians occasionally refer to their city -- somewhat deprecatingly -- as the 'sixth borough' of New York, and with almost 8,000 commuters making the 75-minute train ride between the cities each weekday, the label seems not far off the mark." ❋ Ysolt Usigan (2010)
And the narrative voice is friendly and self-deprecatingly funny. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Oh, that's all right," he said, waving his hand deprecatingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Nicolas Rapold (2010)
Please vote in today's poll and comment, self-deprecatingly or otherwise, in the Comments section. ❋ Jennifer LaRue Huget (2010)
Now that I think of it I have actually referred to myself as both a nerd and a geek self-deprecatingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Anyways, I have referred to myself as a nerd self-deprecatingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"I've been wanting to see you ever since to thank you --" (He shrugged his shoulders deprecatingly). ❋ Unknown (2010)
He waved his hand deprecatingly and muttered that it was nothing at all, what he had done, and that any fellow would have done it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"It doesn't take a physical prodigy to mop up cocktails or pink tea," Kit murmured deprecatingly. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As a McCain-Palin online adviser self-deprecatingly observed, “Memo to self: next time get the co-founder of Facebook on your team.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
A resigned John Mellencamp, in fact, has self-deprecatingly referred to his habit as "the only thing I'm good at." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sure, he did a few local commercials, one in which he self-deprecatingly recalls being gushed over by woman who thinks he's George Kell, a former third baseman and then the Tigers 'television voice. ❋ Matthew Rennie (2010)
I love self-deprecation because you can write funny things about other people as long as you write even more self-deprecatingly about yourself. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But that worked fine at DC9, where Argos ad-libbed self-deprecatingly as Art Brut's Ian Catskilkin added garage-rock guitar that suited the artless vocals better than the recorded version's keyboard-oriented style. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If there's anything more fun than taking apart a workshop poem, it's to read the blurbs poets are sometimes expected to extemporize, to justify/apologize for/self-deprecatingly praise/preemptively neuter their own poetry. ❋ Unknown (2010)
