There was a smile in his voice, self-mocking and a little sad.

She gestured with a floury hand and gave him a small, self-mocking smile.

Teldin's impersonation brought a self-mocking smile to the captain's face.

And then he smiled his self-mocking smile and looked almost like his old self.

The corner of Jarret's mouth curved in a self-mocking smile.

"I felt it would teach me how to think," he said, with a self-mocking smile.

"Before the records to which we have access," the librarian corrected with a self-mocking smile.

He had assured her, with his own jaunty air and self-mocking smile, that it was "just a scratch."

His eyebrows lifted in the self-mocking little smile Hannah must have seen.

He paused a beat, a self-mocking smile tugging at the corners of his mouth.