A self-indulgent...way of looking at life. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I fell into a depression that might be called self-indulgent but was real just the same. From Wordnik.com. [Born Standing Up] Reference
Richard Katz becomes more and more self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Franzen Takes The Long Road To 'Freedom'] Reference
Things never got too experimental or too self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [In concert: MGMT at Merriweather Post Pavilion] Reference
(Soundbite of music) Mr.N. CLINE: Pretty self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [For Nels And Alex Cline, An Avant-Jazz Fraternity] Reference
It nurses every self-indulgent urge I could possibly have. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Hate Facebook] Reference
We were becoming selfish, self-indulgent, sybaritic rapidly. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Is Sadie a self-indulgent monster or a brave, risk-taking soul?. From Wordnik.com. [A Tough Sister Act] Reference
I mean music was starting to get more complex, more self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
The conversation in front of them was mostly self-indulgent banter. From Wordnik.com. [authentic] Reference
Is there any single profession more self-indulgent than the movie industry?. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Slap-Ping The Oscars] Reference
Compared with the frugal Germans and Japanese, we are ruinously self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Is There A Savings Gap?] Reference
For these, you have returned dishonor, unchastity and self-indulgent hypocrisy. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Pale and hugely overweight, he was the very image of the self-indulgent prelate. From Wordnik.com. [The Art Of Dying Well] Reference
The spread of English-speaking hegemony was at times ruthless and self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Ties Of Blood And History] Reference
It is a book that manages to be honest and personal without being self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Visions From a Vanishing World] Reference
Going through with the event might have seemed self-indulgent, even disrespectful. From Wordnik.com. [Must The Show Go On?] Reference
I struggle now for ways to reveal my true feelings that don't seem self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. ['You Didn't Reveal Your Pain'] Reference
It's almost hackneyed by now to refer to Generation X as nihilistic and self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Gen X Invades Asia] Reference
HANSEN: I don't know if it's such a bad thing to be self-indulgent sometimes, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [For Nels And Alex Cline, An Avant-Jazz Fraternity] Reference
Granted, they're famously self-indulgent, famously scandalous and famously ... well, famous. From Wordnik.com. [When Stars Align] Reference
To play the self-indulgent Goeth, Feinnes put on 26 pounds: "it was a rather dark experience.". From Wordnik.com. [New Faces For The New Year ..Mr.-] Reference
No wonder Schrager and McArdle are tut-tutting over the self-indulgent dreams of the hired help. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: As the Aging Stoop to Their Labors, Prosperous Pundits Lecture Them About Sacrifice] Reference
Occasionally wonderful, it is also self-indulgent, infuriating and fascinating, sometimes all on the same page. From Wordnik.com. [A Look Behind The Veil] Reference
Voicing honest feelings may be a good thing when you're a private citizen, but in government it is self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man in Afghanistan] Reference
Some of the glasnost movies were insufferably self-indulgent, but that's the inevitable downside of the new freedom. From Wordnik.com. [David Lynch's New Peak] Reference
In fact, their obsessive romance of damage makes them self-indulgent and ultimately unlikable, not to mention tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of Bromides] Reference
Normally we shy away from back-and-forths with bloggers, on the theory that engaging in them is somewhat self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Who Snookered David Frum?] Reference
Others who have found Lee's earlier films a little too self-indulgent wondered whether he could tell Malcolm's story straight. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm X] Reference
Sherry's Volume Three is dismissed as "ludicrously self-indulgent and self-obsessed", while Mockler is viewed as merely tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis] Reference
Instead it usually comes across as self-indulgent, self-serving and lacking in honesty about having been the cause of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hayward's Three Big Mistakes Every CEO Can Learn From] Reference
Zuckerman is unarguably "angry and self-indulgent" — you know, unlike the rest of us — yet nobody minds those traits in King Lear. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost] Reference
Alternatingly hilarious and annoying, incisive and self-indulgent, "Full Frontal" swings uneasily between hip skit humor and cinema verite. From Wordnik.com. [Sex, Lies And Soderbergh] Reference
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