How to Use self-indulgence in a Sentence
self-indulgence
noun
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Shocking self-indulgence sits cheek by jowl with self-denial.
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Tobi Haslett,
Harper's Magazine,
18 Sep. 2023
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Today the big businesses of self-care and self-indulgence fill the infinite space of the digital kingdom.
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Dominic Green,
WSJ,
3 Oct. 2023
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The colorful outfits exude the wacky self-indulgence that comes through in his work, which makes sense: His personal aesthetic has always been part of the shtick.
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Sonia Rao,
Washington Post,
15 Mar. 2024
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But Cowboy Carter’s greatest gift is its self-indulgence, when Beyoncé plays against typecasting and the rules made for her and, sometimes, by her.
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Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
30 Mar. 2024
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Our collection brims with items curated to cater to every whim, whether gifting joy or a little self-indulgence.
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Kristi Arnold,
Rolling Stone,
15 Nov. 2023
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This is a beautiful collection, full of Link’s hypnotic prose and flights of fancy that never come close to approaching twee self-indulgence.
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Michael Schaub,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Mar. 2023
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His single-minded pursuit of his art and his callous self-indulgence lead one of them to madness, another to self-mutilation and an early demise.
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Alida Becker,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2023
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Anastasia Berg Jerusalem Oyler paints a picture of desperate narcissism among the spoiled classes who seek fulfillment and self-indulgence under the mantra of wellness.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
9 June 2023
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In place of Buffett’s hazy pairing of self-indulgence and deprecation, Chesney offers a manifesto.
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Natalie Weiner,
Billboard,
14 Apr. 2023
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After reading about these lobbyists’ lavish spending, self-indulgence and outright frauds, their ensuing downfalls (in most cases) come as a not-so-guilty pleasure.
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James B. Stewart,
New York Times,
16 May 2024
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In the past, Drake would couch this sort of self-indulgence and acidity between unimpeachable pop hits, impassioned freestyles, and playful genre experimentations.
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Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2023
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With that victory, however, came overconfidence and self-indulgence, and in recent years the NRA has been mired in distracting controversy.
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David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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When did such a holiday that used to connect families and communities become a night of opportunistic self-indulgence?
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Faith Barton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Nov. 2023
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Its self-lacerating melancholia never dips into self-indulgence, instead digging into the shades of gray that define a person’s bleakest days.
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Maura Johnston,
Rolling Stone,
25 Aug. 2023
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Looking after your physical well-being isn’t self-indulgence.
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Rachel Wilkerson Miller,
SELF,
1 Jan. 2024
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The problem with last year’s films — the frustration and alienation that many viewers felt but couldn’t quite articulate — was a lack of discipline that was less a matter of unfettered artistic expression than self-indulgence and incoherence.
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Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
4 Mar. 2023
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Getting a lot of sleep is virtuous (wellness, leisure) and also objectionable (self-indulgence, indolence).
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Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 Oct. 2023
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The result is a six-episode hothouse in which Weisz’s performance as two physically indistinguishable characters in the same story could have easily tipped into self-indulgence.
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Vulture,
4 May 2023
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Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and an almost sheepish gentleness.
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Andrew Delbanco,
The New York Review of Books,
28 Mar. 2024
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Frank Gehry’s baroque billows and Zaha Hadid’s swirls belong to a more frankly exuberant age; today, self-indulgence gets camouflaged as environmental sensitivity.
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Curbed,
25 Apr. 2023
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