Translation of "Selbstironisch" in English

Each of them shows himself and his own with a lot of commitment and self-mockery.

Like Kassier, the Belgian artist Tom Galle criticises the digital age with self-irony.

Paul Taylor:Â French humour is very political, whereas in England it's more about self-deprecation.

Beethoven used the name "Raptus" throughout his whole life to self-mocking describe his harmful disruptions.

With self-irony he shows a subliminal critique of society, religion and the art market.

But then, he had an identity crisis, as ironically described in his chronicle:

"the thought arises and returns to a safer place." In other words, when you have a certain thought, you have a negative pattern, when I say negative, I mean a self-defeating, self-deprecating, self-invalidating thought pattern, that's not just a thought up here.

Poetic, self-deprecating, funny and wonderfully open, she describes the life of Isabelle, her circle of friends and the working environment - until she comes to the bottom, comes to where it hurts her existentially.

She also communicates a great deal herself – often in a self-deprecating tone – via social media such as Instagram, tumblr and Facebook, publishing pictures from her life there.

The name Größenwahn means "megalomania" and is meant ironically, but also alludes to Café Größenwahn which Rosa Valetti ran in what is now the Café des Westens back in the 1920s.

And while the “310” may exude technical refinement with its elevated, semicircular form and button upholstery à la Chesterfield, it does in fact take up seemingly lost traditions and interpret them (with a good dash of mischief and self-mocking) in the spirit of the present.

His «Nurse» is made up of a computer complete with monitor and keyboard over which one can communicate with a seemingly self-ironic computer program.

She is poetic, intelligent and self-ironical and, afterwards, a group of enthusiastic female fans swarms around her.

I was reminded of a joke, maybe half-racist, but I think also self-derisory, which was circulating in the former Yugoslavia, where we had a lot of students from non-aligned and third world countries, in particular from Africa.

Dror Feiler, known for all-out noise as well as differentiated noise composition, loves opposition – also, at times, surprising and self-ironic. He suggested playing a pianissimo improvisation that zeitkratzer realized in the form of electronic-sounding instrumental sounds and their amalgamations.

Goisern can talk about everything, so charmingly and full of self-deprecation, you'd likely pay a bit of money just for an evening of interludes.

The storyline, too, is nice and simple, grand yet silly and self-deprecating in classic Nike style.

A company’s success is linked to the personal success of its top managers: full of self-irony and humor, with honesty and inspiration, Thomas Stein demonstrates in his keynote, how - with hard work, luck and a lot of skill - you can shape your career in a way that you will quickly achieve positive results.

Almost ironically, Christine Buck refers to herself as the "boss" of this hedge planting - which she is of course, but only with regard to her sense of responsibility, not according to the true hierarchy at the municipal office for green areas.

In many of her works, therefore, stereotypical roles are subverted through self-irony, as in the photograph Gretchen von Faust (Gretchen from Faust,(ph1541)), where the "weaker sex" is pointedly transformed into a "strong" one.

Eager to learn, the director takes an upbeat and self-critical look at what pushes these athletes to their physical and mental limits and discovers how sport has given them the courage to face life.

Filliou appointed a fictional event as art’s hour of birth, namely "when someone let a dry sponge fall into a bucket of water," and remarked with self-irony: "modest beginnings, but look at us now."

With digital, super8 and 16mm cameras, in interviews and magnificent b/w enactments, the film reconstructs a long history of migration and expulsion – reflected, self-mocking and touching.