| His quaky, affected voice is so overbearing it strangles otherwise mostly harmless songs and inflates them to the extent of self-parody. |
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| Then again, considering how close many noir B-movies come to self-parody, it can be difficult to identify the line of demarcation. |
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| The leaked programme for the next legislative session was undramatic to the point of self-parody. |
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| The former rages sleazily away, just on the right side of slack-jawed self-parody. |
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| Sirk, to his everlasting credit, steers her clear of self-parody by making her the pivot of the story. |
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| While we study the pictures we are assaulted by an overblown, portentous, bombastic Bernard Herrmann score that borders on self-parody. |
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| Somewhere in Time is so sweet that it becomes saccharine, so serious that it becomes self-parody, so earnest that it becomes artificial. |
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| Remaining a pop phenomenon for 20 years without dying or lapsing into self-parody is quite a feat. |
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| Douglas, often a rather stolid actor, possessed the savvy to come near the brink of self-parody without falling over the edge. |
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| The writing of Across the River and into the Trees drew on his wartime experiences and seemed to merge his exaggerations with his fictional hero to the point of self-parody. |
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| It's hard to know where provocation ends and camp self-parody begins. |
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| It's a piece that totters constantly on the brink of self-parody, but Webley attacks it with such savage gusto that it ends up being an album stand-out. |
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| Architecture devolved into primitive geometrics some time ago, but actually appears sober in comparison with the delusional self-parody of modern sculpture. |
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| Gone is the hokey croak which saw him verging on self-parody and in comes a delicious lugubriousness that's akin to lumpy honey. |
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