How To Use Self-indulgent In A Sentence
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This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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Well, the often interesting BSS bunch pandered to the crowd and although they did do some self-indulgent jams, it was all by the book.
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Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
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It was an interesting, if self-indulgent speech.
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The self-indulgent can stay alongside the fairways in villas offering butler service and a golf buggy.
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By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
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No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit.
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Some people feel it is rather self-indulgent to reward themselves for making such progress.
Coping with Angina
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It felt self-indulgent and a bit embarrassing.
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What might seem like self-indulgent mood swings could be something much more serious and completely outside his control.
The Sun
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His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
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Predictably, the Australian news media has indulged in a frenzy of self-indulgent commentary on the issue.
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For the truly self-indulgent, Viva Brasil in Genoa Nervi makes custom bikinis to order.
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In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent.
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Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent.
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Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors.
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The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
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The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
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How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420).
Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
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It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge.
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Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
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Despite some overlong and self-indulgent sequences (such as the Japanese nightclub scene), the ambitious multi-country scope is handled well with several noteworthy performances.
2009 May : Scrubbles.net
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Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
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Looking back at my early writing, it really is some dreary, self-indulgent nonsense.
Taking stock « Write Anything
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He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same.
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There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.
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The film is meandering and self-indulgent in places, although the music, images and commentary occasionally combine to create moments of genuine beauty.
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Well, after 20 weeks on the road I'm now about halfway through my journey so, at the risk of being self-indulgent, here goes.
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But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief.
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Marvel did cancel Cloak and Dagger good for them because now she can devote more time to Vamptopia or whatever other self-indulgent crap she has going on.
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Cocooned in layers of cotton fluff, I was lead to Mic's living room couch, still leaning into him but for more self-indulgent reasons than balance.
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Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old.
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Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
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One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
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As much as I had hoped for a great farewell, their hour-and-a-half turned into an hour and a half of self-indulgent rock.
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The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish.
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Undoubtedly, there are those who will probably dismiss Adaptation as a load of self-indulgent tosh, or as a smug and overly-clever attempt to poke fun at just about everything.
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If these men had such a king as this, who, while self-indulgent, should lay no severe restraint on them, they would more enthusiastically consecrate to him a temple and a flamen than the ancient Romans did to Romulus.
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Snooki's extramural activities have included participation in a tag-team bout on Wrestlemania (her team won) and a minor conviction (fine, community service) for being, in the words of the judge, "rude, profane, obnoxious, and self-indulgent" on a public beach when drunk.
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Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle?
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony.
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Too much is self-indulgent, frustratingly inconsistent and coasting on former glories.
The Sun
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I am going to be incredibly self-indulgent that day and light one hundred candles just to spite you.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
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The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.
The Slow Crack-Up
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Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in.
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I'm going to be self-indulgent and self-pitying.
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His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
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Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist?
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I've already been rather self-indulgent and included not one but two of his singles in my earlier listing, but that's not going to put me off telling you more about this album.
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While inevitably self-indulgent and infuriating in parts, it is also smart and surprising.
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They have to be careful not to get too sulky about parts of a project that are in the end self-indulgent.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
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Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement.
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The self-indulgent can stay alongside the fairways in villas offering butler service and a golf buggy.
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Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle.
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That's why the "underbook" of My Sister, My Love is intentionally tedious, confusing, and self-indulgent, while the main narrative, "mere storytelling" though it may be, gets better and better.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet
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In these days of self-indulgent faddism, a scrupulous hostess should ask about dietary requirements in advance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia.
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently.
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This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent.
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I fell into a depression that might be called self-indulgent but was real just the same.
Born Standing Up
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To prevent Burnt Sugar's music from devolving into self-indulgent jam band territory, early in the group's development Tate began using conduction, a system of baton gestures devised by Butch Morris.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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I believe Alanis changed her look and persona to boost flagging record sales and a Grammy snub in 2002, by embracing nouveau punk and releasing a pop radio friendly, non self-indulgent record that very year under a pseudonym.
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But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle.
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I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
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Overall, everyone's favourite self-indulgent superpower hasn't budged an inch.
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On Friday, though, for all its colour, flair and energy, his playing was often incoherent, self-indulgent and slam-bang crass.
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Whether you enjoy show tunes, film spoofs or self-indulgent explorations of the artist's life - or if you simply want to stalk TV stars - read on.
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It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
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She writes a tedious and self-indulgent column for a Sunday paper.
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She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old.
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I'm selfish, egotistical and self-indulgent, but not so much so that I cannot recognise the times when my selfish occupations need to be subordinated to the common good.
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They've become more personally assertive, more sexually aggressive, and less willing to put up with self-indulgent bullshit from their men.
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They have self-indulgent little rows, as they did over grammar schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become.
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So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there.
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However, I choked on my breakfast cereal at the facile, almost comical self-indulgent tripe in the second half of the piece.
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I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney.
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My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief.
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It is thoughtless, it is self-indulgent and it undermines the standards which all right-minded people support.
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We were self-indulgent moral nihilists - materialistic, selfish, and impulsive.
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A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat.
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My second reaction was: What a load of self-indulgent twaddle!
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David and Jaqueline Siegel, whose shameless and self-indulgent lifestyle was profiled in "The Wild Ride of the 1%" Review, Oct. 22, are the problem, not the banks or the politicians or Congress.
Fortune Has Solved Their Spending Issue
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I do apologize in advance for this piece of self-indulgent narcissism.
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It is still hard to fathom how it is that people can be so tempestuous, so very emotionally self-indulgent, around those who really shouldn't be expected to put up with it.
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It is wearingly self-indulgent in the way its author recounts every strategy, replays every achievement, extols every ally.
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Blogs, those comprehensive and self-indulgent online diaries kept by aspiring scenesters everywhere, aren't usually thought of as humorous.
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Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Americans are no more self-indulgent in their purchases of health care than they are in their purchases of appliances or cars.
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This slim little volume has its moments but is ultimately too slight, scattershot, and self-indulgent.
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The Bible distinguishes joy from pleasure, and it also warns that self-indulgent pleasure-seeking does not lead to happiness and fulfilment.
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Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
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Sorry sha'el, most of what you write is at least mildly if windily and self-indulgently amusing, but in regards to
Words Fail Me
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Such closeness to truth could be deadeningly self-indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there.
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While crusties still look crusty, being ecologically sound is turning out to be fun, shallow and self-indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in.
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I did think about sorting it all out with surgery but at the time it seemed a bit silly and self-indulgent.
The Sun
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It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want.
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Most of the films cover a post-war to late '60s period when art houses became popular in American cities and the term codified a certain type of urbane international sensibility, derided by Pauline Kael as where "the educated audience often uses' art 'films in much the same self-indulgent way as the mass audience uses Hollywood' product '- finding wish fulfillment in the form of cheap and easy congratulation on their sensitivities and their liberalism.
PopMatters
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You need to be a little bit self-indulgent today as by tomorrow, reality will kick in.
The Sun
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They're judged as lazy and self-indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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His co-authored book on the decline of the Classical tradition, or American education, or whatever (with the barfy title of Who Killed Homer) is sloppy and self-indulgent.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution
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I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent.
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A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving.
Mankind in the Making
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Or that it had not reached a point where a necessary visit to the GP seemed as self-indulgent as a week at the spa.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having reread the following, I deem it too depressing and self-indulgent to post; nothing but mid-life crisis mewling at its farging worst.
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Is this self-indulgent psychobabble or legitimate therapy?
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The earnestly intense and naturalistic performances, fine for Ibsen, fit poorly here and consequently come off as either dangerously self-indulgent or oddly casual.
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They said I was jumping down from my perch and turning myself into just another bloviator in the unregulated, highly idiosyncratic and often preposterously self-indulgent crowd of bloggers.
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Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
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It's coming alright but not in the way those light-headed, self-indulgent fops think.
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It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
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The music sounds like it was an afterthought, and the singer's dead-sober seriousness is self-indulgent and boring.
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This movie is a glorious self-indulgence about a man who is gloriously self-indulgent.
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The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
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But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it: this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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Every three weeks I leave it until the last minute, can find sod all to write about, and end up with something introspective to the point of self-indulgent.
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The end result is a body of pretty-looking, but increasingly empty and self-indulgent work.
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It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
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It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
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Have I successfully painted my self-indulgent portrait of a frustrated artist yet?
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Their biggest asset is that they know how to pen a tune but don't get mucked up in self-indulgent slop, and know when to pull out all stops.
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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Sharp alternations of violent action and self-indulgent repose; a hard run, and a long revel after it; this is what over-much horse tends to animalize a man into.
Elsie Venner
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This Senate custom of valedictory speeches may look self-indulgent to some but I think is quite important in its own way.
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You are self-indulgent, and frequently too indulgent of others, as well.
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And it comes at a time when other self-indulgent audience habits have become standard.
Eats and Tweets in the Seats
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As for extras, the self-indulgent dynamic just keeps on chugging along.
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Unlike the good-natured bumbler from the Disney cartoon, this honey-happy bear is a manipulative, abrasive, self-indulgent schemer who is clearly unapologetic in his larcenous adventure.
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He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same - among them, paregoric, laudanum, chamomile, and an otherwise unidentified bark tea.
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Sadly the gig itself was a bit self-indulgent.
The Sun
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It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
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Sure, it does have long, self-indulgent spots, but the film remains ahead of its time to a remarkable degree.
Weekly Mishmash: November 8-14 : Scrubbles.net
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What to American eyes seems seminal may appear to the rest of the world as a bit self-indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is probably undeserving of the music category, being as it is one part music to five parts self-indulgent waffle.
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Sick of such self-indulgent twaddle, I found the urge to throw the book across the room was strong.
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And I have only good things to say about the restaurants that accommodated my over-privileged, self-indulgent foodism.
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From a personal point of view it became a little bit self-indulgent, a little bit boring.
Times, Sunday Times
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There will be others running for office in 1996 who succumbed to the temptations of a self-indulgent time (Bob Dole is already sniping at Phil Gramm's nonbelligerency in the 1960s).
Lawyering The Truth
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It's just to suggest that self-indulgent utopianism—millennial thinking—is less an expression of the longing for transcendence than a perversion of it.
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Doubtless; but I fear that my young relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly determined in his aversion to these callings by a dislike to steady application, and to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally, but is not charming or immediately inviting to self-indulgent taste.
Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
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I mean, the NYRB does publish a lot of great stuff, but it also publishes a lot of self-indulgent preachy leftist hot air and cliquish puff-piece circle-jerkery.
Will Saletan’s Moderation
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a self-indulgent...way of looking at life
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That was when I got the payback for my shameless, self-indulgent comfort-fest.
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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He thinks that architecture now tends to alternate between self-indulgent fireworks and acting as a tool of developers.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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But come on - he can be so longwinded, lugubrious, and self-indulgent.
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Even though she's backing Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," and even though I now work for her, I had dismissed the event this Saturday on the Mall as self-indulgent, time-wasting comedy.
Howard Fineman: A New Appreciation for the 'Rally to Restore Sanity'
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The camera work is eye-poppingly opulent, but feels more self-indulgent than clever.
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This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
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The whole premise would be far better if it didn't seem quite so self-indulgent.
The Sun
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Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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But this is no self-indulgent nostalgia trip: it has great pace, a lovely sense of fun and rapid-fire cynical banter.
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As much as circumstances permit I intend to be fairly self-indulgent and lazy today.
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Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
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From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented.
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I tried to get a number for Gallo through a record company that released some scratchy, self-indulgent folk albums of his.
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What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles.
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After all has been said about self-indulgent mannerisms, moral perversities, phraseological outrages, and the rest, these volumes will remain the noble monument of the industry, originality, conscientiousness, and genius of a noble character, and of an intellectual career that has exercised on many sides the profoundest sort of influence upon English feeling.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle
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How is a financially bankrupt government that is unable to adequately and fairly remunerate its civil service be as self-indulgent as to splash scarce foreign currency on itself at an expensive tourist resort such as Victoria Falls with reckless abandon?
Undefined
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Neumeier's work is self-indulgently long, banal, unmusical both in its choice of scores and in its response to them, intermittently pretentious and uncertain in tone.
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You could say that having the freedom to act blonde is testament to the confidence of feminism in a new century - or you could just say we're all a lot of self-indulgent ninnies.
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She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people.
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The first was sentimental and self-indulgent, the second offered hope amid despair.
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The minx laughed her usual self-indulgent laugh.
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Despite some overlong and self-indulgent sequences (such as the Japanese nightclub scene), the ambitious multi-country scope is handled well with several noteworthy performances.
2009 May : Scrubbles.net
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Yesterday when I said: "I defy you to find a more atrocious, self-indulgent, self-important piece-of-crap tune," I knew someone would find something uniquely interesting.
I Stand Corrected
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Or they may suspect that you are a self-indulgent, whinger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because only the self-indulgent king was allowed to sit in a fauteuil, or armchair, there was an abundance of lowly stools and benches - all covered in regal fabrics: velvets, damasks, gold-threaded brocades, and embroidered silk.
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The Bible distinguishes joy from pleasure, and it also warns that self-indulgent pleasure-seeking does not lead to happiness and fulfilment.
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The left on Auckland City's council have become self-indulgent and treacherous to each other.
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Against the sentimental, self-indulgent, and socially destructive rhetoric of romance, marriage experts and sexologists such as Ellis deployed the scientific language of personal interaction, conflict management, and healing.
