How To Use Self-indulgent In A Sentence

This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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.
Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
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. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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. Update
Some people feel it is rather self-indulgent to reward themselves for making such progress. Coping with Angina
It felt self-indulgent and a bit embarrassing.
What might seem like self-indulgent mood swings could be something much more serious and completely outside his control. The Sun
His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
Predictably, the Australian news media has indulged in a frenzy of self-indulgent commentary on the issue.
For the truly self-indulgent, Viva Brasil in Genoa Nervi makes custom bikinis to order.
In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent.
Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent.
Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors.
The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
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
It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge.
Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
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
Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
Looking back at my early writing, it really is some dreary, self-indulgent nonsense. Taking stock « Write Anything
He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same.
There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.
The film is meandering and self-indulgent in places, although the music, images and commentary occasionally combine to create moments of genuine beauty.
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.
But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief. Times, Sunday Times
Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief. Times, Sunday Times
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. Who are the Dark X-Men? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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.
Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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.
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
I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
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.
The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish.
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.
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.
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. Other Comments
Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle?
Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony.
Too much is self-indulgent, frustratingly inconsistent and coasting on former glories. The Sun
I am going to be incredibly self-indulgent that day and light one hundred candles just to spite you.
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
This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
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
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.
I'm going to be self-indulgent and self-pitying.
His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist?
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.
While inevitably self-indulgent and infuriating in parts, it is also smart and surprising.
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
Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement. Times, Sunday Times
The self-indulgent can stay alongside the fairways in villas offering butler service and a golf buggy. Times, Sunday Times
Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle.
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
In these days of self-indulgent faddism, a scrupulous hostess should ask about dietary requirements in advance. Times, Sunday Times
It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia.
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.
This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent.
I fell into a depression that might be called self-indulgent but was real just the same. Born Standing Up
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.
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
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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.
But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle.
I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
Overall, everyone's favourite self-indulgent superpower hasn't budged an inch.
On Friday, though, for all its colour, flair and energy, his playing was often incoherent, self-indulgent and slam-bang crass.
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.
It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
She writes a tedious and self-indulgent column for a Sunday paper.
She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.
Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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.
They've become more personally assertive, more sexually aggressive, and less willing to put up with self-indulgent bullshit from their men.
They have self-indulgent little rows, as they did over grammar schools. Times, Sunday Times
What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become.
So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there.
However, I choked on my breakfast cereal at the facile, almost comical self-indulgent tripe in the second half of the piece.
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.
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.
It is thoughtless, it is self-indulgent and it undermines the standards which all right-minded people support.
We were self-indulgent moral nihilists - materialistic, selfish, and impulsive.
A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat.
My second reaction was: What a load of self-indulgent twaddle!
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
I do apologize in advance for this piece of self-indulgent narcissism.
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.
It is wearingly self-indulgent in the way its author recounts every strategy, replays every achievement, extols every ally.
Blogs, those comprehensive and self-indulgent online diaries kept by aspiring scenesters everywhere, aren't usually thought of as humorous.
Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement. Times, Sunday Times
Americans are no more self-indulgent in their purchases of health care than they are in their purchases of appliances or cars.
This slim little volume has its moments but is ultimately too slight, scattershot, and self-indulgent.
The Bible distinguishes joy from pleasure, and it also warns that self-indulgent pleasure-seeking does not lead to happiness and fulfilment.
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
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
Such closeness to truth could be deadeningly self-indulgent. Times, Sunday Times
So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there.
While crusties still look crusty, being ecologically sound is turning out to be fun, shallow and self-indulgent. Times, Sunday Times
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.
I did think about sorting it all out with surgery but at the time it seemed a bit silly and self-indulgent. The Sun
It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want.
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
You need to be a little bit self-indulgent today as by tomorrow, reality will kick in. The Sun
They're judged as lazy and self-indulgent. Times, Sunday Times
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
I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent.
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
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
Having reread the following, I deem it too depressing and self-indulgent to post; nothing but mid-life crisis mewling at its farging worst.
Is this self-indulgent psychobabble or legitimate therapy?
The earnestly intense and naturalistic performances, fine for Ibsen, fit poorly here and consequently come off as either dangerously self-indulgent or oddly casual.
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.
Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement. Times, Sunday Times
His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
It's coming alright but not in the way those light-headed, self-indulgent fops think.
It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
The music sounds like it was an afterthought, and the singer's dead-sober seriousness is self-indulgent and boring.
This movie is a glorious self-indulgence about a man who is gloriously self-indulgent.
The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
The end result is a body of pretty-looking, but increasingly empty and self-indulgent work.
It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
Have I successfully painted my self-indulgent portrait of a frustrated artist yet?
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.
Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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
This Senate custom of valedictory speeches may look self-indulgent to some but I think is quite important in its own way.
You are self-indulgent, and frequently too indulgent of others, as well.
And it comes at a time when other self-indulgent audience habits have become standard. Eats and Tweets in the Seats
As for extras, the self-indulgent dynamic just keeps on chugging along.
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. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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.
Sadly the gig itself was a bit self-indulgent. The Sun
It feels self-indulgent spending so much on a pair of shoes.
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
What to American eyes seems seminal may appear to the rest of the world as a bit self-indulgent. Times, Sunday Times
This is probably undeserving of the music category, being as it is one part music to five parts self-indulgent waffle.
Sick of such self-indulgent twaddle, I found the urge to throw the book across the room was strong.
And I have only good things to say about the restaurants that accommodated my over-privileged, self-indulgent foodism. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
From a personal point of view it became a little bit self-indulgent, a little bit boring. Times, Sunday Times
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
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.
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)
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
a self-indulgent...way of looking at life
That was when I got the payback for my shameless, self-indulgent comfort-fest.
Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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
But come on - he can be so longwinded, lugubrious, and self-indulgent.
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'
The camera work is eye-poppingly opulent, but feels more self-indulgent than clever.
This sort of thing can be cloyingly precious, self-indulgently gay, and, in its Freudian undertones and chintzy neo-Victorianism, very 1950s.
The whole premise would be far better if it didn't seem quite so self-indulgent. The Sun
Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under.
Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
But this is no self-indulgent nostalgia trip: it has great pace, a lovely sense of fun and rapid-fire cynical banter.
As much as circumstances permit I intend to be fairly self-indulgent and lazy today.
Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented.
I tried to get a number for Gallo through a record company that released some scratchy, self-indulgent folk albums of his.
What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles.
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
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
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.
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.
She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people.
The first was sentimental and self-indulgent, the second offered hope amid despair.
The minx laughed her usual self-indulgent laugh.
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
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
Or they may suspect that you are a self-indulgent, whinger. Times, Sunday Times
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.
The Bible distinguishes joy from pleasure, and it also warns that self-indulgent pleasure-seeking does not lead to happiness and fulfilment.
The left on Auckland City's council have become self-indulgent and treacherous to each other.
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.

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