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“Joyful Recollections of Trauma,” Scheer’s memoir-in-essays, blends the horrifying and the self-deprecatingly funny, often within the same chapter, sometimes within the same sentence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2024

On that perfect-weather night in May, we danced and swayed with the nearly all-female audience as Taylor gracefully — and when she couldn’t pull off graceful, then humorously self-deprecatingly — moved through her eras.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2024

He and his backing musicians deliver a complex sequence of harmonies and the great man says self-deprecatingly: "Was the tape-recorder on? I'm not sure I could do that again."

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2024

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.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2019

Old men grasp middle-aged women round the waist; smiling, self-deprecatingly they too begin to tread; Hej!

From A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness