He is also the nicest character in the book (laughs deprecatingly).
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The word is used self-deprecatingly, not as a form of abuse.
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Does self-deprecatingly admitting that you're a terrible cliché make it better or worse?
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A day before the final results were announced, Coxe spoke self-deprecatingly of his handiwork.
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" He chuckled self-deprecatingly and added, "I think they feel a little sorry for me.
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"I self-deprecatingly call myself a pervert, but that's not what it is," he said.
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Dispensing endless health advice to correspondents, Gandhi referred to himself self-deprecatingly as a "quack" doctor.
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In 2012, his father, an anesthesiologist, asked him to do something "actually useful," says Glassenberg self-deprecatingly.
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If the album's title is a deprecatingly self-aggrandizing reference to the trio's own stubborn persistence, then bring it on.
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When DeGeneres pointed out that Pratt's abs can look just as impressive, the actor self-deprecatingly said there was no comparison.
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Widely mocked for being robotic in persona and intransigent in policy, May decided to take ownership, self-deprecatingly, of her flaws.
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Jay winks self-deprecatingly at just about anything, while Nick softens the edges of that wit by being both modest and thoughtful.
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" But the carefree hook keeps the track loose, especially when Rault self-deprecatingly sings, "That's fine, no cares, sun shine, I'll be there.
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The city is Dundee and that club is the Reading Rooms, the the self-deprecatingly self-styled 'small town club' with a big reputation.
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She self-deprecatingly alludes to being a "bad friend" who lives with her husband in "an overpriced converted yuppie loft complex" that she despises.
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Self-deprecatingly, he calls that "wishy-washy", but it is not; for adults caught in the maelstrom of jobs and relatives and daily life, listening is hard.
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As Erinn Williams, a health investigator, was driving to a sketchy Oklahoma City address in search of a man who might have syphilis, she laughed self-deprecatingly.
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No longer do we laugh with Grant, the bumbling Englishman, as his self-deprecatingly vain and desperate turn in Paddington 2 encourages us to laugh at him.
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"I made 40-plus movies where you see me with a gun and that one neutral face," Jean-Claude Van Damme self-deprecatingly told The Times last month.
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Within hours on Tuesday, Ms. Griffin, who self-deprecatingly acknowledged her middling celebrity in a reality show "My Life on the D-List," posted a video apology to Twitter.
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Performing romantic abjection online is kind of my schtick, so trust me when I say that it doesn't make you feel better, no matter how self-deprecatingly you frame it.
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Foster Friess, a Republican donor intent on "restoring the Judeo-Christian value system that made our country great," acknowledges his detractors and self-deprecatingly compares his tribulations to those of Jesus.
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Genially, self-deprecatingly and in charmingly accented English — he pronounces the "w" in "answer" — he tells the story of how he became captivated by what are evidently someone's silent home movies.
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One man had — sort of — seen it coming: Brandon Finnigan, who oversees election coverage for Decision Desk HQ and who even self-deprecatingly calls himself Brandon "Pennsylvania" Finnigan in his email signature.
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He seemed to think he was up to the job when he self-deprecatingly recalled an episode from his days coaching for Mount Vernon Nazarene University, a small private school in Ohio.
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De Niro self-deprecatingly joked that those in attendance were supporting both "the dumbass comedies of Robert De Niro" and "overrated performances of Meryl Streep" -- a reference to a Trump critique of the three-time Oscar-winning actress.
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He played in Cuba's top minor leagues, self-deprecatingly shaking his outstretched hand in the universal sign for "so-so" when asked to evaluate his ability, though he admitted he once won a batting title in that division.
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Thus Merkin's memoir proceeds with caution: She self-deprecatingly calls herself a "poor little rich girl" before you can, and she certainly does not assert she has any answers, not even to the questions that her own past brings up.
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Ms. Bareilles is the singer-songwriter behind piano-driven hits like "Love Song" and "Brave," who earlier this month played what she — self-deprecatingly — calls her "mid-tempo ballads" at a White House state dinner honoring the Canadian prime minister.
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And those old-school intentions were made even clearer in the same episode's segment featuring Rudolph, 43, and SNL pal Tina Fey, 46, self-deprecatingly, but with much heart, speaking to the audience about their love for the variety shows of yore.
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ELISABETH VINCENTELLI I once heard Mr. Previn talk self-deprecatingly about "working in a plantation called MGM Studios writing reams of music, which were kinds of encyclopedias of bad taste," before he made the leap to the concert hall as a conductor and composer.
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The supports of the five-part painting featured at Bernard Jacobson are sheets of flexible acrylic mesh with quarter-inch square openings; paint can be applied to the front or pressed through the back, a process that the artist has self-deprecatingly compared to pushing cheese through a grater.
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" To that end, Kool AD buffed up on Kwanzaa facts on Wikipedia—and cops to the process in verse as he self-deprecatingly spits, "Kool AD specialize in knowledge / Kwanza was invented at Oberlin college / Wait, I just checked on the Internet, my fault / Kwanzaa was invented UCLA, my fault.
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She asked him lots of questions about the movies he liked, and she spoke self-deprecatingly about the movies at the artsy theatre that she found boring or incomprehensible; she told him about how much her older co-workers intimidated her, and how she sometimes worried that she wasn't smart enough to form her own opinions on anything.
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The stingy Prince that Greenman recounts in a chapter titled "Call the Law" — the stern copyright enforcer who targeted YouTube clips and other unauthorized uses of his work, to "no real effect other than to alienate fans" — was difficult to square with the performer who gave of himself so generously in concert and could even be self-deprecatingly funny.
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The corporation of Thomas Edison and the light bulb has focused much of its recent advertising on shedding the public perception of it as a stodgy, staid institution — a dilemma the company self-deprecatingly poked fun at in a recent ad campaign in which a new GE employee struggled to explain why his job was more interesting than his bemused friends and family believed.
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I know all this because of Garfield's lengthy public response to his ouster, self-deprecatingly titled "TMI about me": Yes, I am one of those people … Despite the total lack of evidence that alternative lifestyle cultures offer any harm to anyone, there is still a great deal of prejudice and bigotry regarding it … someone, I do not know who, stumbled across my profile on a private, registration-required website for alternative-lifestyle people … that information made it to the Community Working Group (CWG), who concluded "there was no code of conduct violation present for [them] to take any action on" … in my first contact with Dries, he asked me "to step down from Drupal" … Drupal has been the cornerstone of my career for the past nearly 12 years … Dries wouldn't budge on me leaving, including making it clear that it wasn't an option, but an instruction … informing me that I'd been summarily dismissed from my position as track chair and as a speaker at DrupalCon, "per [my] conversation with Dries" … here I am, being bullied, harassed, and excluded because of my personal activities, which I don't even publicize much less advocate for in tech circles.
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A highly consistent player, his one weakness was his lack of goals. Goodfellow self-deprecatingly described himself as "a non-running, non- tackling, non-heading midfielder".
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Marimuthu accosts Manickam near the Aiyanaar statue. When Marimuthu speaks deprecatingly of Manickam's lineage, Manickam sees red. He plucks the sword from the hands of the Aiyanaar statue and injures Marimuthu. Manickam is arrested and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
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He was promoted Major on 3 July 1952. He retired from the army on 29 April 1960. Haswell's later work was mostly writing, continuing a thread from his military and intelligence work. He self-deprecatingly described his books as "holes held together with string".
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For the designs of clothes for the female characters, Shimura consulted various fashion magazines for girls in their early teens, especially Nicola. Shimura commented self-deprecatingly in the afterword of volume one that, like her other series, her characters do not look very different from each other, her panels are too white, and there is much pathos.
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In 1940, Brown married Barbara Hart, a receptionist. The couple had three sons, whom Brown self-deprecatingly noted were "well spaced ... like my centuries". Outside cricket, Brown worked in a variety of jobs. When Bradman relocated from New South Wales to South Australia in 1935, Brown took his job at the men's clothing store FJ Palmer.
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For costumes, Ohkawa used "Anon non-no Olive" as a reference. Additionally, the preview panels of each story featured different visual motifs, primarily girls and animals. In retrospective, Nekoi self-deprecatingly thought that her illustrations of the female protagonists, including working women, made them resemble junior high students. Some of the stories in The One I Love contain autobiographical elements.
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Hosted at Tiscali. Historically, the princeps senatus of the Roman Senate was such a figure and initially bore only the distinction that he was allowed to speak first during debate. Also, Constantine the Great was given the role of primus inter pares. However, the term is also often used ironically or self-deprecatingly by leaders with much higher status as a form of respect, camaraderie or propaganda.
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Peter Maxwell Davies wrote Sir Charles: his Pavane as a tribute to Groves's memory.Brown, Alan. "Pavan", Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, 21 October 2008 Away from the concert hall, Groves was a connoisseur of English literature and also a keen sports fan. When young he played rugby "in the Wasps F team", as he self-deprecatingly put it, and as a cricketer was "a wily slow bowler".
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He was a gifted storyteller and monologist, and his concerts generally had an even mix of spoken word and sung content. He attributed much of his success to his personality. "It is better to be likeable than talented," he often said, self- deprecatingly. Until it lost its funding, Phillips hosted his own weekly radio show, Loafer's Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind, originating on KVMR and nationally syndicated.
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Conrad was an overweight actor, and the series, especially in its early episodes, made frequent mention of Cannon's size and weight. Other characters would often remark critically about it, while he himself would joke self-deprecatingly about his girth and great love of food. In fact, Cannon was a gourmet cook who enjoyed preparing food for his friends. Despite his large size, he was a man of action.
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His choral anthem, "Fifty Nifty United States", in which he set the names of the states to music in alphabetical order, is now a staple of school choirs. He self-deprecatingly billed himself as "the other Ray Charles" in a humorous tribute to the blues singer with whom he worked on several occasions. It was sometimes said that there were two Ray Charles'. One was blind and the other was deaf.
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In subcultural and fictional uses, a mundane is a person who does not belong to a particular group, according to the members of that group; the implication is that such persons, lacking imagination, are concerned solely with the mundane: the quotidian and ordinary.brown, rich Dr. Gafia's Fan Terms The term first came into use in science fiction fandom to refer, sometimes deprecatingly, to non-fans; this use of the term antedates 1955.
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Herriman was described as self-deprecatingly modest, and he disliked being photographed. The New York Journal-Americans obituary described him as a devoted husband and father, of slight build, mild-mannered and an anonymous contributor to charities. He was generous to his friends, and sold his first Hollywood house, which he had bought for $50,000, to a friend for $40,000. Though a private person, he was said to be an entertaining host to his friends.
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At his first birthday on 21 August 1921, Milne received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear, which he later named Edward. Eeyore was a Christmas present in 1921 and Piglet arrived undated. Edward, along with a real Canadian black bear named Winnipeg that Milne saw at London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character. Milne spoke self-deprecatingly of his own intellect, "I may have been on the dim side", or "not very bright".
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He self-deprecatingly referred to it as "this Velvet Frog voice". As a solo singer, he recorded several romantic hits for Decca and with the Artie Shaw Orchestra for Musicraft (1946–1948). In 1949, he moved to Capitol, where his first record, "Careless Hands," became his only number-one hit. His versions of "Again" and "Blue Moon" became signature songs. His composition California Suite, prompted by Gordon Jenkins's "Manhattan Tower," became Capitol's first 12-inch LP album.
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He tasked Miyamoto with the conversion, about which Miyamoto has said self-deprecatingly that "no one else was available" to do the work. Nintendo's head engineer, Gunpei Yokoi, supervised the project. Miyamoto imagined many characters and plot concepts, but eventually settled on a love triangle between a gorilla, a carpenter, and a girl. He meant to mirror the rivalry between comic characters Bluto and Popeye for the woman Olive Oyl, although Nintendo's original intentions to gain rights to Popeye failed.
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Cher appeared in a variety of costumes during the performance. Her opening outfit, involving a stringed skirt, meshed top over a cross, and a huge red wig, was dubbed self-deprecatingly by her as the "Bozo the Clown-meets-Braveheart look" or the 'Super Groundforce Girl' referring to Charlie Dimmock from the popular- at-the-time Groundforce Gardening show. All in all there were 7 to 9 different ensembles, depending upon how one does the counting, with none lasting more than a handful of songs.
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At the World Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he came sixth in the 200 m backstroke behind East Germany's Roland Matthes, who set a world record. Tonelli self-deprecatingly noted that "I didn't get to see him [Matthes] swim in the final, because I was in the same race five sets of speedos behind".Tonelli, p. 43. Tonelli won his first Australian titles in 1974, claiming both the 100 m backstroke and 200 m butterfly; it was his first race in the latter stroke at senior national level.
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Outside the Internet world, the meme has been referenced in interviews by various athletes and public figures, such as basketball player Draymond Green, professional golfer Jordan Spieth, and the rapper Schoolboy Q. Various athletes, like Steph Curry, Jon Jones and Roberto Luongo have also used the image self- deprecatingly on social media after struggling or failing in games, or having suffered some other misfortune. Outside of sports, the image has also been used in combination with images of politicians like Barack Obama and Marco Rubio.
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Klinsmann moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League for the 1994–95 season, where the fans and media were very critical of the German, partly because he played in the 1990 West Germany team that eliminated England from the World Cup, and partly because of his reputation as a diver. He was signed by Spurs in July 1994 from Monaco for £2 million.Blickensdörfer: Jürgen Klinsmann, 1995, p. 55f On his debut against Sheffield Wednesday, he scored a header and immediately won over fans with his goal celebration by self- deprecatingly diving to the ground.
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He has recorded for over a dozen independent record labels, with VHF releasing much of his collaborative work and Jagjaguwar issuing many of his solo albums, their first being a reissue of Sapphie. Other labels have included Dekorder, Fourth Dimension, Freek, Fusetron, Majora, Table of the Elements, Volcanic Tongue and his own labels, beginning with Jabberwok in the 1980s, and then the self- deprecatingly named No Fans Records. In December 2015 the Revived Glass label, Glass Redux, released a new Youngs album Inside the Future on CD & Download.
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158 and in the film he is shown injecting himself on the opening night of The Mikado. In his diary, Arthur Sullivan wrote afterwards, "All went very well except Grossmith, whose nervousness nearly upset the piece".Allen 1975, p. 241 Grossmith spoke self-deprecatingly about his own vocal prowess (Sullivan and others disagreed): :Of course, I haven't any voice to speak of, but I have a great register, and Sullivan used to amuse himself by making me sing bass in one number of an opera and tenor in another.
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Based on the life of series creator Peter Murrieta, the series attempted to examine the themes of cultural identity, family and class. The family's former neighborhood was mentioned to be an impoverished area, where the family home had bars on the windows and was subject to frequent police helicopter flyovers. Stereotypes of Mexican- American culture are lampooned in the series, and used self-deprecatingly. The show's title was meant to imitate the caption of a postcard, and the title sequence displayed the cast and credits on a series of postcards.
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Dowling was born in Connecticut. His mother was a schoolteacher, his father was a dentist, and he has a brother and two sisters. He moved to the UK from New York at the age of 27 and currently lives in London with his wife Sophie de Brandt and their three sons. He enjoys skiing with his sons, having learned to ski as a child in the US. Dowling has played banjo (which his wife bought for his birthday) in the band Police Dog HoganPolice Dog Hogan since 2009, and he writes self-deprecatingly about their festival gigs, including Glastonbury, in his column.
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SAIL was started in 1963 by John McCarthy, after he moved from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to Stanford. Lester D. "Les" Earnest, also previously of MIT, served as executive officer (self- deprecatingly, "Chief Bureaucrat") at SAIL from 1965 to 1980. During the same years, SAIL was housed in the D.C. Power building, named not for "Direct Current" but rather for Donald Clinton Power, who held the positions of president, C.E.O. and chairman of General Telephone & Electronics Corporation (later GTE Corporation) between 1951 and 1971. GT&E; donated the unfinished building to Stanford University after abandoning plans to establish a research center there.
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"Pennsyltucky." The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area is in red, the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area is in blue, and the "Pennsyltucky counties" are white. "Pennsyltucky" is a slang portmanteau of the state names Pennsylvania and Kentucky. It is used to characterize--usually humorously, but sometimes deprecatingly--the rural part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically applied to the local people and culture of its mountainous central Appalachian region. The term is used more generally to refer to the Appalachian region, particularly its central core, which runs from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, and its people.
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Annie Clark has said that the song "encapsulates this idea where we've become very dependent on other people [...] a million digital eyes, validating our experience". The lyrics are a clear commentary on social media, including Clark's own experience on websites such as Twitter, which self-deprecatingly she describes as "pathetic". In an existential sense, the lyrics question how people evaluate what is and is not important in the digital age. Writing for Pitchfork, Katherine St. Asaph compared "Digital Witness" to "I Should Watch TV", a track from Love This Giant, Clark's 2013 collaboration with David Byrne; she concluded that Clark likely took a cue from Byrne in composing "Digital Witness".
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In 1923-24 Lang visited the U.S. and was asked to comment on many of the current events of the day. When reporters told Lang of “religious clashes” in the United States, which then was witnessing fights between evolutionists and religious fundamentalists and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and its anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic propaganda, and of “the organized manifestations of bigotry” he “seemed incredulous” and “shook his head deprecatingly.” Lang commented that “At Oberammergau we have all kinds. There is a Catholic church, and a chapel that is used by the Protestants --- Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, and all kinds. But that isn’t what counts.
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The term was once prevalent in Parisian circles, applied deprecatingly to those who professed allegiance to the Socialist Party, but who maintained a far from proletarian lifestyle that distinguished them from the working-class base of the French Socialist Party. A more explicit reference identified this group as left-wingers who speak great passion about the plight of the poor while eating caviar in their spectacular Parisian duplex apartment. The label was also employed by detractors to describe François Mitterrand. This was further reinforced by the fact that several members of his administration were identified as part of the gauche caviar such as Jack Lang, who was the culture minister.
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"Howell readily acknowledged the talents of Lombardi and Landry, and joked self-deprecatingly, that his main function was to make sure the footballs had air in them." At points in his tenure as an assistant coach at West Point, and as an assistant coach with the Giants, Lombardi worried that he was unable to land a head coaching job due to prejudice against his Italian heritage, especially with respect to Southern colleges. Howell wrote numerous recommendations for Lombardi to aid him in obtaining a head coaching position. Lombardi applied for head coaching positions at Wake Forest, Notre Dame, and other universities and, in some cases, never received a reply.
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"She's Funny That Way" or "He's Funny That Way" is a popular song, composed by Neil Moret, with lyrics by Richard Whiting. It was composed for the short film Gems Of M-G-M in 1929 for Marion Harris, though the film was not released until 1931. Harris sang it as "I'm Funny That Way". A torch song, according to Philip Furia and Michael Lasser, the "song begins self-deprecatingly—'I'm not much to look at, I'm nothing to see'—but "at the end of each chorus, it affirms the lover's good fortune: 'I've got a woman crazy 'bout me, she's funny that way.
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Achard's greatest successes and popularity were in the period between the two World Wars when contemporary critics favorably compared him to some of his renowned French predecessors such as Pierre de Marivaux and Alfred de Musset. Postwar pundits were not as kind, pointing out the rather narrow scope of human psyche that he represented and deprecatingly referring to him as a "spécialiste de l'amour" ["love specialist"] for the sickly-sweet characteristics of his poetic imagination. The critics focused, of course, on Achard's most popular plays, disregarding the fact that the reason Achard continued to write them is precisely because they met with such unvarying success. His less-well known works, however, show innovative techniques and original themes.
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In the November 1902 issue of the literary magazine The Bookman Herriman wrote of his profession self-deprecatingly, while poet La Touche Hancock, in an article in that issue titled "The American Comic and Caricature Art", wrote, "Art and poetry is the characteristic of George Herriman. Were his drawings not so well known one would think he had mistaken his vocation." Herriman's work was increasing in popularity, and he occasionally had front-page, full-color strips for the Pulitzer supplements, such as Two Jolly Jackies about two unemployed sailors, which began in January 1903. He began drawing the cowboy strip Lariat Pete in September for the McClure syndicate after Two Jolly Jackies was ended.
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The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English periodical The Monthly Review, when he suggested the word as a hybrid, but condemned it as "pedantic". However, its next recorded use was in its present sense, by Robert Southey in 1809."autobiography", Oxford English Dictionary Despite only being named early in the nineteenth century, first-person autobiographical writing originates in antiquity. Roy Pascal differentiates autobiography from the periodic self-reflective mode of journal or diary writing by noting that "[autobiography] is a review of a life from a particular moment in time, while the diary, however reflective it may be, moves through a series of moments in time".
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The building was, however, not very popular with the public. On the one hand, it did not seem as grand as the Heinrichshof, a private residence which was destroyed in World War II (and replaced in 1955 by the Opernringhof). Moreover, because the level of Ringstraße was raised by a metre in front of the opera house after its construction had begun, the latter was likened to "a sunken treasure chest" and, in analogy to the military disaster of 1866 (the Battle of Königgrätz), was deprecatingly referred to as "the 'Königgrätz' of architecture". Eduard van der Nüll committed suicide, and barely ten weeks later Sicardsburg died from tuberculosis so neither architect saw the completion of the building.
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Retrieved 5 August 2015. It is used to describe items that though famous within New Zealand are unknown in the rest of the world, whereas similar items and people in larger countries would have a far higher media profile and would therefore be famous worldwide. The term is simultaneously both parochially proud and self-deprecatingly humorous. It indicates a pride that a small country should be able to produce individuals which, in the opinion of the speaker, would be of a necessary standard to become world famous, yet at the same time it recognises that these individuals come from a country which does not have a high international recognition factor, and therefore these individuals are destined to remain "big fish in a small pond".
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Unlike most people who become involved in high technology industries, McNealy did not come from the world of amateur programmers or hardware hackers; instead, his background was in business, having earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. McNealy has self-deprecatingly referred to himself as a "golf major" rather than a computer scientist. McNealy started out working at American Motors, where his father was vice chairman and vice president of marketing. He later became manufacturing director at Onyx Systems, a vendor of microprocessor-based Unix systems."Scott McNealy and Sun Microsystems", Center for Management Research, Case Code LDEN039, 2006 In 1982, he was approached by fellow Stanford alumnus Vinod Khosla to help provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for Sun Microsystems.
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After its 1999 unveiling at the Tokyo Auto Show, automotive critics generally panned the design, with one self-deprecatingly calling himself "old and out of touch" and thus unable to appreciate what was perceived as a toy-like, naïve box. Others noted the sharp divide in opinions between "traditional" automotive styling critics and design professionals, who hailed the unified concepts in the design. Jonathan Glancey, writing for The Guardian, said at the time that most "contemporary car design is about as interesting as watching magnolia paint dry" and called the 021C "an eye- catcher", noting that "[it made] everyone who saw it smile." In 2009, ten years after it was first unveiled, critics revisited the design of the 021C and found the design had aged well, still appearing sleek and modern.
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The club is nicknamed the Beavers and there is some debate as to its origins. The ground is known as Beveree – after the nearby house from whose grounds it was originally part of – and it lies adjacent to Beaver Close, which would seem to suggest as to where the tag originates although Beaver Close was built after the ground. Following the renaming of the club from Hampton to Hampton & Richmond Borough, occasionally 'come on the Borough' is heard but generally, the fans prefer 'Beavers' to anything else, which is reflected in the naming of the club's youth group as the 'Hampton Beavers' and the supporters sometimes referring to themselves self-deprecatingly as the 'Beaver Patrol'. An alternative and somewhat humorous chant often heard emanating from the crowds behind the home goal is 'Up the Beavers'.
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Twenty One Pilots performed “Holding On To You” during their first appearance at the mtvU Woodie Awards in Austin, Texas on March 14, 2013. The duo began the performance with Tyler Joseph self- deprecatingly telling the audience, "I know you don’t know who we are," before he and drummer Josh Dun started jumping all over the stage, with the lattr executing a backflip off a raised dais. Twenty One Pilots performed "Holding on to You" during their concert headlining the home of the Habs for the very first time at the Bell Centre as part of heir Bandito Tour on May 22, 2019. Dun and Joseph began their performance by standing atop the latter's piano, wearing a "bonjour Montreal" shirt a ubiquitous red toque respectively, before the former did a backflip to the floor back to his drum kit.
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Theatermania described Fly by Night's script as "a perfect balance of serious and self-deprecatingly funny", and praised its "beautifully melodic score and... absolutely heartwarming story". Ben Brantley of the New York Times wrote, "The score makes extensive use of time-freezing vamps and riffs that flirt with early rock ’n’ roll, as well as recurrent motifs that are guaranteed to take up longtime residence in your ear" and described the song 'Eternity' as "a perfectly self-contained tour de force". He did, however, criticise the show's "sense of stasis" and "tendency to repeat itself, both thematically and musically", as well as its length: "at 80 or 90 minutes, instead of two and a half hours, “Fly by Night” would have been just the ticket for audiences with a taste for sentimental quirkiness set to music". Reviewers generally praised the show's direction, set design, and lighting.
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Herrmann was an early and enthusiastic proponent of the music of Charles Ives. He met Ives in the early 1930s, performed many of his works while conductor of the CBS Symphony Orchestra, and conducted Ives' Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra on his first visit to London in 1956. Herrmann later made a recording of the work in 1972 and this reunion with the LSO, after more than a decade, was significant to him for several reasons - he had long hoped to record his own interpretation of the symphony, feeling that Leonard Bernstein's 1951 version was "overblown and inaccurate"; on a personal level, it also served to assuage Herrmann's long- held feeling that he had been snubbed by the orchestra after his first visit in 1956. The notoriously prickly composer had also been enraged by the recent appointment of the LSO's new chief conductor André Previn, who Herrmann detested, and deprecatingly referred to as "that jazz boy". Herrmann was also an ardent champion of the romantic-era composer Joachim Raff, whose music had fallen into near-oblivion by the 1960s.
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