| 单词 | self-indulgent |
| 例句 | It was a tone that reminded him of Aunt Elizabeth, of views endorsed with an unapologetic, self-indulgent English decency. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Well, some of those who gave their silver were simply the self-indulgent rich. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z To be fair, it should be mentioned that the University had a vague contempt for Imre’s populace, too, viewing them as self-indulgent and decadent. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bull crowed with delight, a self-indulgent but euphoric eruption that silenced his wife’s catcalls for the moment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They keep themselves wrapped in gray cloth armor and selfless acts, convinced that to share is to be self-indulgent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Members of Abnegation don’t own many decorations, since they are viewed as self-indulgent, but what few things we were allowed, he has. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He would have thought Hoagland was typically American, crazy, self-indulgent, too rich in time and money. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z What made Spacey’s self-indulgent bits more painful was knowing what got left out of the telecast. The 2017 Tony Awards: Lost in Spacey 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z He thinks that architecture now tends to alternate between self-indulgent fireworks and acting as a tool of developers. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z Ramping up the sensation that we're watching a self-indulgent but very seductive jam, Buda sinks to his knees and closes his eyes for long moments. The Phoenix Foundation – review 2013-05-14T18:24:53Z Win Butler of Arcade Fire targets a self-indulgent era in his lyrics. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z Viewers took to Twitter to criticize Madonna and MTV for the speech, saying it was self-indulgent and did not focus enough on Franklin. Madonna gets no respect for Aretha Franklin VMA tribute 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z In the past, the notion of method has felt a little on the pretentious side, a little self-indulgent. David Oyelowo on the Role That Made Him a Method Actor 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z There are those who see his films as pretentious, as lacking in substance, as self-indulgent. 'I don't think any of us are normal people' 2012-05-18T23:02:00Z Opulent, sensual, psychologically probing, self-indulgent and fascinatingly complex in text and music, Schreker’s operas are very much the product of their time: 20th-century Austria and Germany before Nazism. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z Her new monochrome works are ones that her younger self, she said, might have found self-indulgent. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The whole system of self-indulgent, we’re all independent professionals and we will each bill you no matter how stupid, ignorant and wasteful it is. Unreasonable Rate Review for Health Insurance 2011-12-13T23:03:22Z I think it’s really hard to pull those off without them being self-indulgent. Richard Simmons’s Disappearing Act Inspires a Hit Podcast 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z They are self-indulgent and vain and they shop their brains out. "Gossip Girls" new fashion idols? OMG! Totally! 2010-11-19T06:01:00Z But the theatrical bells and whistles ultimately come across as incoherent and self-indulgent, overshadowing the activists’ original act of witness. 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival sets the stage for rebellion 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z In another artist’s hands such a room might seem preposterously self-indulgent. Art Review: ?Nan Goldin: Scopophilia? at Matthew Marks Gallery - Review 2011-12-08T23:21:31Z But after the 2016 presidential election, such pieces started to seem petty, self-indulgent, naïve. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z One good question to ask is what kind of practices strike you as intolerably cheesy or self-indulgent: gratitude journals, mindfulness meditation, seeing a therapist? Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z One of the questions that your portrait of Lynette raises is whether clinging to the idea of one’s freedom or one’s anti-materialistic artistic integrity into one’s late thirties is valid—or whether it becomes self-indulgent. This Week in Fiction: Tessa Hadley on Fiction as Anthropology 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It's hard to shake the feeling, though, that it's all a bit self-indulgent. Patrick Wolf: Sundark and Riverlight – review 2012-10-11T22:00:18Z Variety called it “ambitious,” Rolling Stones said the episodes had “moments of brilliance amid unchecked sprawl,” and IndieWire called it “shallow and self-indulgent.” 'Mad Men' creator returns to identity theme with 'The Romanoffs' 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z I don’t feel like it’s any kind of license to burn money or be unprofessional or self-indulgent in any way. ArtsBeat: How Dan Harmon Did, Or Did Not, Get His Groove Back at ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:03:13Z The Hollywood Reporter called the movie, starring Gérard Depardieu as the Strauss-Kahn figure, “racy,” “uproarious” and a “rather fascinating bit of artistic self-indulgence that’s both made by, and about, self-indulgent men.” Abel Ferrara Fights to Stop Re-Edited Strauss-Kahn Film 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z What makes this distinctly voiced, plot-light rant work as a narrative is that it exists in contrast to so many self-indulgent and "brave" grief memoirs. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The density makes a four-person play feel crowded; Clint Ramos’s living room set, littered with discarded Amazon delivery boxes, nails the relentless clutter of a self-indulgent family trapped together for months with no maid. Review: A Shorter ‘Long Day’s Journey,’ Now With N95s 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The usual lyrical themes of disappointing relationships, lowered expectations, and heartbreak are prevalent here, epitomized in the smooth “Humiliation,” whose protagonist engages in some self-indulgent, high-society despair. The National Breathes Confidence on Trouble Will Find Me 2013-05-23T11:00:22Z The last 45 minutes of "Western Society," scattershot, self-indulgent and belaboring, felt like a trial. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Some people may shy away from regular wine drinking as self-indulgent or hedonistic, and they would not be wrong. A Guide to Drinking Wine at Home 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Worrying about your inability to board a flight can feel self-indulgent when I.C.U.s in many places are overwhelmed. What Happens If You Test Positive While Traveling? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z If any character would seem to be a white wine drinker, it would be this self-indulgent, solipsistic president. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Although the narrative sometimes threatens to collapse into grand opera, Hill proves a promising if occasionally self-indulgent playwright who finds a surprising amount of humor in her play. Surprising humor on the road to 'Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers' 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z By contrast, the Piano Concerto No 4 in G major was disappointing; soloist Dejan Lazic´ was fluent enough, but self-indulgent to the point of waywardness, both in his tempi and his anachronistic cadenzas. ACO/Tognetti 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z Yet the two mammoth Waddell canvases at the hub of “Eye of the Bird: Visions and Views of D.C.’s Past” at the George Washington University Museum aren’t just whimsical or self-indulgent anachronisms. In the galleries: Washington from on high, as it was and as it was meant to be 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z This was partly because she wanted to hide the hook-up from her flatmates as it “felt like a stupid, self-indulgent thing to do”. ‘We were sexually frustrated’: did it work out for people who texted an ex in lockdown? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z The fake claim shame takes up a lot of space in the series, in a way that starts to feel self-indulgent, a desperate attempt to make Vivian sympathetic and align her with Anna. To the crimes of "Inventing Anna," add atrocious journalism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Compared with the humorless, grimly responsible Claire, Justine is impulsive, self-indulgent and charming: the flighty grasshopper to her sister’s responsible, dutiful ant. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z Its climactic battle is overlong and wearingly self-indulgent, which is often the case in blowouts where a budgetarily emboldened director piles on the mayhem, mistaking bigger and noisier violence for excitement. ‘Peninsula’ Review: The First Rule of Zombie Club Is Run! 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z How refreshing to read a sharp, astringent critique of the kind of self-indulgent meanderings that too many people seem to feel they must share with the world, complete with knowledgeable fact-checking. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z You did a self-indulgent, thoughtlessly cruel thing and must own up to that. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sabotaging your brother’s relationship — what would Dr. Lecter say? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z If you liked Richard Feynman’s autobiographical “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman” but thought it was rather self-indulgent, this book will prompt similar reactions. Enter the Holodeck 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z I praised the considerable beauties of its instrumental music and set pieces but complained about the protracted recitatives, the “long, arid patches of spoken narration” and the “precious, self-indulgent libretto by Robert Gordon.” Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Would this self-indulgent garbage have won an Oscar if the producer wasn't a black celebrity? ‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Best Picture as Oscars Project Diversity 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z While one reviewer described the Manchester world premiere of the songs as "massively self-indulgent", many more were gushing in their praise of "moments of simple, transcendent beauty". Nature's way 2011-07-28T08:18:35Z Broadly speaking, it’s aesthetically self-indulgent and politically selfish, and Imhof knows it. Anne Imhof, Dancing in the Ruins 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z I used to think it was self-indulgent or shameful to write about my private passions, but then I realized that as a reader I loved learning about other writers’ obsessions. Golf Balls! Pencils! Whales! What Makes an Author’s Obsession a Thrill, Not a Bore? 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z In which case J Cole's debut album should be a self-indulgent sorrow-fest to match Drake's because he's quite clearly going to be massive. New band of the day - No 840 J Cole 2010-08-04T16:17:00Z As the Atlantic described it, the film was "self-indulgent and thoroughly unnecessary." Kenneth Branagh’s "Death on the Nile" forgets Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z More than anything, "Bellflower" is a work of tremendous passion and energy, wiling to risk appearing idiotic or self-indulgent in almost every scene. Indie film discovers sci-fi spectacle 2011-08-02T21:01:00Z It's self-indulgent, but the songs aren't pastiche like the ones in Grease. How we made: The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2013-03-04T19:30:02Z The show was spiritual and cathartic for some, pretentious and self-indulgent to others. The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z "Sure, it was self-indulgent, but there is no musician you'd rather watch tinkering around on stage for two hours than Hancock." London jazz festival 2012: highlights from days three and four 2012-11-13T16:30:00Z But the emphasis is still on visceral, accessible entertainment of all kinds, especially in this 10th-anniversary year, when, as Mr. Hendrix put it, “we’re sort of being a little self-indulgent.” Critic?s Notebook: A Rogue Film Festival Earns Respect (Sort Of) 2011-06-30T22:19:02Z Somehow, it wasn't patronising to the people whose stories it lighted upon, and it didn't feel self-indulgent for a moment. Radio review: Supermarket Symphony 2011-07-10T19:29:00Z It could be tiresomely self-indulgent, but Winterbottom and his sure-footed leading men keep the pace to a jaunty trot. Perspective | Movies to satisfy your pent-up wanderlust 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Despite the presence of plenty of virtuoso musicians, there is little or no self-indulgent showboating for it's own sake; all the solos and instrumental passages fit the song and never outstay their welcomes. Readers' reviews: Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Riversea 2012-08-29T14:07:29Z Critics may find the book preachy and Bennett's list of accomplishments and sunny outlook self-indulgent, but the celebrity and career anecdotes will likely appeal to fans. Review: Tony Bennett's meditations on show biz 2012-11-21T22:00:14Z In Afghanistan, fashion, with its low barriers to entry, is not so much a symbol of self-indulgent indolence as a lever of advancement. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z It’s a chance for listeners to revel in The xx’s world for a bit longer, which is self-indulgent, but also blissful. The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist 2012-09-05T16:00:49Z There are moments of loveliness in Tarantino’s portrait of his hometown, even as its willful rewriting of reality feels self-indulgent. Perspective | Summer movies circa 2019: A season of random blips and nostalgia trips 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s exuberant and surprising and fun, but it’s also self-indulgent. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z He seemed to know exactly how much space to leave Sellers before his pratfalls became self-indulgent, while introducing a perfect foil in the uptight and eventually insane Charles Dreyfus. Blake Edwards: a life in clips 2010-12-16T20:47:26Z The unpleasant fact is that an obsession with identity is, finally, self-indulgent. Donor siblings: do the ties of blood matter? 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis When CS Lewis was writing The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, in 1949, the times were hardly self-indulgent. Season's Readings: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis 2010-12-10T10:47:00Z If on par with the previous episodes, which are also being performed at the festival, it’s bound to be self-indulgent, chaotic, smart, fun and totally engrossing. Dance Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “Goblin mode” is a slang term referring to “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z In a piece about legacy, this felt dangerously self-indulgent. Dabbling in Provocation at the Fall for Dance Festival 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The composer tacked dances on the end that mean nothing and are cut by all but the most self-indulgent choreographers. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z During the sound mix, they reconsidered: that approach felt potentially self-indulgent and bratty, and maybe punishing to viewers. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Sure, when described like this, the concept sounds a little self-indulgent. Why I'd like to be … Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The result, he said, was “a really unfiltered script, something that was perfectly self-indulgent and pushed various ideas of comedy.” ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The legacy of your father’s self-indulgent and irresponsible behaviour is clear to see and I wish I could feign surprise that it’s embedded itself so deeply in your psyche. My father’s terrible behaviour means I can’t be intimate with men | Dear Mariella 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z For 10 years, he struggled to write a book that wasn't "sentimental and self-indulgent," Green said, laughingly adding that his early efforts featured a "22-year-old dashingly handsome chaplain who was also a drunkard." 'The Fault in Our Stars' is a tour de force about teenage cancer 2012-01-14T07:25:43Z So, as she faces down her last day on "The View," Walters can be forgiven her long and self-indulgent victory lap. For Barbara Walters, power, politics and pop culture were personal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The questions are self-indulgent, but they still strike a nerve. The Enjoyable Discomfort of Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z "Bardo" is sure to be seen as pretentious and self-indulgent — and how can an existential film about a filmmaker not be? Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The personal poems are superb and anything but self-indulgent. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z Feirstein was writing a column for the college paper, using it to lampoon the school’s rich kids and their self-indulgent antics. Visions of Snowflakes Dance in Bill O’Reilly’s Head in ‘Old School’ 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Whenever I think of my brother, it stops me being self-indulgent about my career – at least I am not going to get shot. Ruth Wilson: 'I'm not sure there is such a thing as madness' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Their self-indulgent musical presence is dwarfed by the R&B royalty that “River” seeks to honor. ‘Take Me to the River,’ a Documentary About Soul Music 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z To some critics, she was simply too self-indulgent. 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The comic formulation is usually the same — he’s trying to protect these two little angels from the evils of the world, while still being fundamentally selfish and self-indulgent. Last night’s “Louie” reveals the engine behind Louis CK’s hate-parenting 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z I was in self-indulgent mode, and Castle Rock were really supportive. How we made: The Last Days of Disco 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z A contingent of opera fans always found Corelli just too self-indulgent and careless. Critic?s Notebook: Sony Classical Releases 4 New Historic Met Opera CDs 2012-01-21T01:25:23Z Lest this all comes off as self-indulgent, devotees of men’s groups say blunt-force honesty is something that keeps them coming back. These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z They were messy, confusing, self-indulgent excuses for Johnny Depp to run around in circles while pulling a variety of silly faces. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z This once urgent topical gag can’t avoid looking a bit self-indulgent eight years later. Oscars 2017: Jimmy Kimmel the safe choice for host but sparks unlikely to fly 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Bad writing for Murdoch, and for the generation of literary writers surrounding her, could be defined as "the soft, messy, self-indulgent work of an enslaved fantasy". Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z But Jarmusch is smart, and every scene, every line, is carefully chosen — there’s no self-indulgent rambling here. More than a real cool time: Jim Jarmusch’s “Gimme Danger” is essential viewing for Stooges fans 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z I was given an early copy of this book and within 10 minutes of reading it went from finding it clever and authentic to tiresome and self-indulgent. Review: 'Prune' by Gabrielle Hamilton 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z The movie's full title is Crystal Fairy and the Magic Cactus and 2012, a self-indulgent sprawl of words that suits the movie's psychedelic undercurrent. Crystal Fairy – first look review 2013-01-18T16:52:39Z If, on the other hand, you thought the original was self-indulgent sop — an insufferable memoir by a privileged woman with first-world problems — we should talk. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z It was self-referential and self-indulgent, but a nice gesture in its own, blackhearted way: the show went out not with a “Farewell, old friend” but with a “See you in hell!” Review: Two and a Half Men Stays True to Its Wicked Heart 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The first part of the show is fascinating, if self-indulgent, as we watch creators attempt to negotiate thorny material in the highly sensitized environment that is art-making in 2019. Review: ‘jazz singer’ Looks to Complicate a Film’s Fraught History 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z “For me, the constant search for perfection and self-actualization that you have as a dancer became self-indulgent,” he said. Man of Medicine, Dance and Film: 3 Dimensions of Pontus Lidberg 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Luschek that apologies work as long as you really mean them, it’s clear that repentance is simply self-indulgent if not backed up by direct and tangible actions. When “I’m sorry for your loss” doesn’t cut it: “Orange Is the New Black” explores the limits of easy apologies 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Coming so soon after Darren Aronofsky’s self-indulgent Mother!, red flags were raised by the thought of another story from a tortured male genius about just how difficult it is to be a tortured male genius. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 4 Phantom Thread 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z The playing was note-perfect and affectionate, though a little self-indulgent at times. Pianist András Schiff is note-perfect at Strathmore concert 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The glib, flashy and self-indulgent musical results were not much fun. Review: Lang Lang Opens Carnegie Season With a Gershwin Gimmick 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z I told myself that it was self-indulgent to write my family history – who would be interested in reading about Grandma? I could never understand my grandmother's sadness – until I learned her tragic story 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The glamorous but naive Katherine is taken up by the intellectual, self-indulgent, Goldman family, and has her heart broken in a series of vivid, comical vignettes – and that's just the first half of the novel. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z I pictured myself old and bearded and blubbery, lying on the floor drinking malt whisky and expanding my mind, a self-indulgent vision now sidelined by fatherhood. Stewart Lee: my life on the shelf 2010-07-31T23:07:00Z Punk also lashed out at a different kind of status quo: the previous generation’s stadium rock pomp and self-indulgent hippie meanderings. How a TV Series Undersells the Danger of the Sex Pistols 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The acupuncturist and herbalist thought the idea was "self-indulgent and ridiculous," yet another way to turn childbirth into an over-the-top outgrowth of a consumer-driven culture. Push presents for mom: easy bling or heartfelt? 2011-06-20T17:33:09Z “To be sentimental is to be kitsch, phony, exaggerated, manipulative, self-indulgent, hypocritical, cheap and clichéd. It is the art of religious dupes, conservative apologists and corporate stooges.” People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z And he emerged as a self-indulgent clod with no concern for how his actions affected others. Showtime’s ‘The Affair’ Expands Its Points of View 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Sprawling, ramshackle and not a little self-indulgent, director Oren Moverman's unruly landscape of a movie deserves plaudits for its scope, ambition and refusal to offer a sympathetic centre, often to the detriment of audience engagement. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-07T23:05:22Z Joy is one of the hardest things to write well, and bald talk of one’s personal happiness is easy to dismiss as tacky or self-indulgent. Under the Crushing Weight of the Tuscan Sun 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z A cloud of stories, a self-indulgent, disunited cloud of cold, hardhearted tales that are so repetitive it's boring. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 1: Picking Up the Jagged Pieces 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z It’s certainly not self-indulgent, or even sentimental; it’s just deeply, deeply sad. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z The phrase is hateful, conjuring up a self-indulgent fragility, along with hippy smells and meditative loafing. The truth about time management: how I went from chaos to punctual calm in one week 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It was more self-indulgent than luxurious, focused only on pushing Fielding’s hepcat Izzard shtick further up his own backside than ever before. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Relentless, unmodulated beauty is bland and frequently self-indulgent. Cardiff Singer of the World: is a beautiful voice enough? 2013-06-19T20:00:02Z The way I see the world — this is probably so pretentious and self-indulgent — I don’t see why people aren’t reacting the way my character reacts to bad news. Jesse Eisenberg on the Surprising Success of ‘The Spoils’ in London 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z When you realise that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff' 2012-08-05T19:00:01Z It might sound like an absurd, self-indulgent or exhausting hobby. They made it their mission to talk back to Trump on Twitter. But is anyone listening? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z It was self-indulgent and worth seeing in equal measure. It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The album’s throwaway track, a cover of “Sixteen Tons”, is nothing short of a self-indulgent exercise accented with skronking saxophone. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z The prose is loquacious, repetitive, at times self-indulgent and just good enough to get away with it. Letter of despair 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z He's reluctant to pass on these assets to a self-indulgent young round-eye who's too lazy to hang up his jacket, but pity leads him to relent. The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China 2010-08-02T08:00:00Z Alan Parker is in reflective mood: the onetime scourge of all that is arty, self-indulgent and non-commercial has, to all appearances, mellowed. Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set' 2013-01-24T19:00:00Z But if this sounds like self-indulgent navel-gazing, the play broke through the fourth wall to demand more reality from this encounter between actors and audience members. The year in theater: Drama reigns in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z A comprehensive in-house study in the late ’80s fretted that Style had grown predictable and petulant; flabby with stories that were too long and writing that was too mean or too self-indulgent. Perspective | The Style section at 50: Still sharp, snarky and soulful — and always a work in progress 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z They hold me up as an example but I am not an example of publishers or bookstores extracting value because without an editor my first novel, Looking for Alaska, would have been unreadably self-indulgent. John Green: why I'll never self-publish 2013-06-06T14:13:57Z Others disagreed, the Hollywood Reporter branding the reboot a “self-indulgent, pointless, meaningless… exercise in misplaced nostalgia and auteur idol-worship”. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z She made two studio albums with Dresden Dolls and two solid, albeit self-indulgent, solo records without singing well. Amanda Palmer is an expert storyteller who’s less skilled at singing 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Though it’s fair to criticize the book for being somewhat self-indulgent, the classic contains hidden nuggets of important advice. 5 life lessons from J.D. Salinger’s “Franny and Zooey” 2013-09-12T13:40:00Z Maybe taking on Boccanegra is a self-indulgent exercise for Mr. Domingo at this stage of his career. 2010-01-20T05:02:00Z Mr. Lagerfelds creativity was extraordinary when focused — his couture shows could be transcendent; he transformed Fendi and the whole idea of fur — but often it wasn’t, and the result could be self-indulgent. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The piece comes across as jejune and self-indulgent, and the part of it that gets a little hip-hop seems overly influenced by “Hamilton.” Review: A Portrait of Living With Mental Illness in ‘The Pen’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z But the storytelling is as yet too impulsive, and at times too self-indulgent, to be corralled in those ways. Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in ‘The Lucky Ones’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Yet his karmic musings on samsara – the Buddhist concept of "continuous flow" – become an excuse for some extremely loose and self-indulgent writing. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z The friction with the label led the band to begin releasing material including the obtuse and at times self-indulgent Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, a creative leap but a commercial and critical question mark. The Dandy Warhols' This Machine: The Indie Rockers Go Goth 2012-04-25T16:00:53Z “It was so self-indulgent, another case of a white man benefiting from showing non-Western art to build his career.” Change is coming to the National Gallery of Art. But is it ready for Kaywin Feldman? 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z And I think there are so many people that would've been like, "You know, I'm 28, 29. I don't have a memoir in me. That's deeply self-indulgent." "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z There was the “selfish-y,” a self-indulgent selfie he introduced on “Conan” in which the photographer blocks the other person in the picture from view. For Carl Reiner and His Fellow Nonagenarians, Death Can Wait 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z I'm not interested in whether or not we are happier; I find that a temporal, self-indulgent thought. Pop-up book club: The Feminine Mystique – day one 2013-02-20T19:05:08Z A successful politician, Mr. Doonan wrote in Slate, must appear Prada-oblivious: “Any hint of dandyism or vanity would indicate a superficial, self-indulgent character.” The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z She was also personal in the most transformative sense — not self-indulgent, but rather rigorous. For Ellen Willis, criticism was personal 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z In their first directorial project since “Avengers: Endgame,” the Russos employ their blockbuster aesthetic on a stylized and self-indulgent American crime drama. New this week: ‘Cherry,’ ‘Bloodlands,’ Nick Jonas & Grammys 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z But it demonstrates that mainstream Chinese cinema can be as guilty of self-indulgent overstatement as anything out of the West. | 'Beginning of the Great Revival': Chinese History, Straight From the Source 2011-06-24T16:13:27Z It’s the type of thing that shouldn’t have a shelf life, but it does because the joy is that it’s self-conscious — not self-indulgent. Dance Review: Seduced by a Savior Who Likes to Dance 2010-09-24T21:56:00Z “Killer Joe,” with its stereotypes spread across twice as many characters and hollow gestures toward a social context, is an even blunter, more self-indulgent exercise in excess. Movie Review: ‘Killer Joe,’ Directed by William Friedkin 2012-07-26T17:03:26Z “But a lot of stuff is quite self-indulgent and needs a serious edit. I’m reluctant to pick up something that’s more than 600 pages if I don’t have a previous relationship with that writer.” Never-ending stories: from Bond to Galbraith, why is everything so long? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Was it self-indulgent for him to weep, particularly given his role in the war?” Obama and Christie: It’s alright to cry 2012-11-06T16:25:00Z Likewise, while “The Affair” wracked up Golden Globes for best drama series and for lead actress Ruth Wilson, many critics seemed to grow tired of the self-indulgent central romance. Reboots done right: How “The Affair” and “The Leftovers” played to their strengths and wiped out their biggest flaws 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Within hours, if not minutes, of the publication of the Rolling Stone article, Mr. Penn was being vilified for his self-indulgent prose style and his awkwardly friendly attitude toward Mr. Guzmán, a wanted criminal. Sean Penn’s Excursions Into Writing Often Mix Activism With Journalism 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z But if that sounds even more airily arty and self-indulgent, a no-nonsense marketing professional might disagree. Who Wore It Better: Art or Commerce? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z His début review for the Herald Tribune dismisses Sibelius’s Second Symphony as “vulgar, self-indulgent, and provincial beyond all description.” Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z "Rude, profane, obnoxious and self-indulgent is not the way to live your life," the judge told Polizzi. Snooki to sign for fans after community service 2010-10-14T18:13:00Z In the ensuing year, I ate dozens of meals with him, all over the county, stretching the reporting of a five-thousand-word Profile to absurdly self-indulgent lengths. How Jonathan Gold Stretched Food Criticism to Encompass Everything 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s generally a bad sign when a band starts out its new album campaign by apologizing, particularly when that band spent the better half of the 2000s in unfettered self-indulgent decline. Review: Weezer Insists That Everything Will Be Alright in the End, and It Is 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z To spend the money felt overly self-indulgent, and something as inconsequential as making small talk with the nail technician was daunting. How I became an adventurous woman 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This whole debate is, of course, deeply self-indulgent, as most people won't see The Killer Inside Me or Antichrist. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z On “Zoltan,” Young takes a heroically long but not self-indulgent solo that builds, with a relentless intricacy, to a terrific noise that highlights another facet of his artistry—a sure dramatic sense. Larry Young’s Self-Questioning Jazz 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z They are bankrupted by the boomers' self-indulgent spending, let down by the boomers' complacent inability to anticipate the revolutionary consequences of the computer world, flustered by constant electronic distraction. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z He does this because he’s a cutting-edge multimedia artist and not, as you think, a self-indulgent nitwit vastly overcompensating for those three Transformers films he made. Which ridiculous art project should Shia LaBeouf do next? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z “They meant it as a criticism. You see, indeterminacy was supposed to get us away from such romantic notions. One of my friends confessed that he thought it was ‘self-indulgent.’” A Piece of Music Will Speak Once More. For 26 Hours. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z On a similarly dim-witted note, this year’s set of nominees also included Jennifer Lawrence, up for worst actress for her hugely impressive work in Darren Aronofksy’s divisive, self-indulgent black comedy Mother! Rotten fruit: why it's time to give up on the Razzies 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But this thrown-together, insanely self-indulgent showcase merely reveals someone far more sad and delusional. Charlie Sheen bombs in Detroit debacle 2011-04-04T03:06:46Z As a set it is self-indulgent, ill thought-out and, frankly, boring. Nanci Griffith – review 2012-07-30T14:27:41Z Yes, it's ever so slightly self-indulgent – and grandiose. Dancing on the Edge; The Year of Making Love – TV review 2013-02-05T07:00:11Z The pilot episode of Showtime’s self-indulgent character drama “The Affair” makes prominent use, in the first few scenes, of On Prospect Park, a 15-story glass building designed by celebrated architect Richard Meier. “The Affair’s” real-estate porn: Class politics, twisted perspectives and New York’s torrid romance with real estate 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z To Lenora, Martin is a callow, self-indulgent boy, unwilling to sacrifice the few to help the many: “You can’t see past the end of your own nose.” Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z There is a fine line between being personal and being self-indulgent. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z I overheard audience members complaining during intermission that Mr. Denk’s rendition was too “self-indulgent,” but while he certainly maximized the piano’s capabilities in terms of dynamic contrast, he never sacrificed good taste. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z Dunham has come under fire for being too self-indulgent, revealing too much. Lena Dunham's Story of Rape Is a Must-Read 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Well, “feast” may be too uplifting a word for this frankly tiresome play, which finds Mr. Joseph in the self-indulgent mode of his “Guards at the Taj” from 2015. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Some critics took issue with the more self-indulgent moments, however. Jarmusch's star-studded zombie parable kicks off Cannes 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Anyway, current events have rendered the possibility of acting out a midlife crisis not only self-indulgent but downright impractical. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z True, the show was self-indulgent and puerile in places: Jimmy Savile, Brand's impending lawsuits and a long riff on Shetland ponies featured. Russell Brand on Xfm – radio review 2013-03-22T07:00:14Z Point of fact, the content to which the cruise ship's audience takes the highest offense wasn't jokes, it was Deborah's defensive, self-indulgent badgering. Ellen can say "gay" now: "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" ends by taking a stand...for celebrity 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Such a pity our self-indulgent narcissistic culture has come to this. Upscale Food and Gear Bring Campsite Cooking Out of the Wild 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z With its constant starts and stops, “Boys in Trouble” was more self-indulgent than transformative. Review: A Transgender Choreographer Takes on Machismo 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Small screen sex has shifted from mere spectacle or punchline to thoughtful facet of a more three-dimensional character: from being "sassy" and sometimes self-indulgent, to being knowing and self-reflexive. Sex and the City: the reboot needs to look beyond its narrow view of white wealthy heterosexual sex 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z Lingering over breakfast at the Standard last Saturday, August Miele recalled the highlights of a self-indulgent weekend. Miami?s Rising Tides 2011-08-19T22:23:58Z But the flirtiness didn’t come off as self-indulgent, feeling more like a method to make the crowd feel comfortable and included, and to allow themselves to share in the emotions Styles channeled into “Fine Line.” Review: Harry Styles brings fans to emotional highs and lows at Tacoma Dome stop of Love on Tour 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z And for a clan that is never far from the public imagination, the Windsors really outdid themselves in 2022, captivating attention and polarizing opinions in ways celebratory, solemn and self-indulgent. The Windsors outdid themselves in 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z This was self-indulgent twaddle, inappropriate in these austere times and built on an entirely erroneous premise and poor science. Food TV: a crop of lemons 2013-01-23T10:45:00Z “It’s not self-indulgent. It’s in service to the music that already exists.” Brandi Carlile prepares for ‘emotional’ run with Seattle Symphony 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps we need a similar new standard for actors who manage to overcome weak material, self-indulgent direction or the conventions of the genre they’re working in to deliver credible, emotionally grounded performances. Perspective | As Oscar season gets underway, let us now praise great actors in bad movies 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Ms Morris does not pretend that this book is anything other than a self-indulgent caprice, but it is both enjoyable and instructive. Venetian love affair 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Links to self-indulgent despots have driven up a few estimates for a Bonhams auction of 154 Chinese snuff bottles on Tuesday. Antiques: Asia Week Dealers Stress Provenance 2011-03-17T20:46:32Z The writers’ conference depicted in “Country Porch Lights” is a cesspool of snobbery and sycophancy, gilded with “self-indulgent aphorisms and psycho-babble.” ‘The Richard Peabody Reader’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The loving gesture would not be so touching had we not seen Berenice’s teasing, lecturing, self-indulgent side, too. Review | ‘Member of the Wedding’ is Southern Gothic looking for flavor 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z No, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not breathtakingly self-indulgent and just plain awful; it is actually jaw-droppingly great. Cult films: just bad movies in a good disguise? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s basically the idea that Ben Franklin touted more than 250 years ago — “early to bed, early to rise” — with everyone else cast as lazy or self-indulgent. Maybe Your Sleep Problem Isn’t a Problem 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z “I Wanna Be Sedated” is an “I’m sick of being on the road” song that’s hilarious where it could have been self-indulgent, mostly because nobody had ever sung so earnestly about longing for tranquilizers. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z “Why so self-indulgent? Let a broader array of nihilists see themselves in your mediocre music.” Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z But, as his obituaries in 1896 made clear, he was more widely seen as a strangely solitary Austrian church musician with oversized ambitions whose sprawling symphonies were earnest yet awkward and self-indulgent works. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z That depends on whether you consider Gehry, now 86 years old, to be one of our greatest living artists or a purveyor of self-indulgent sculptural excess. ‘Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry’ review 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z But in spite of his noble intentions, the Night Manager star was roundly criticized on social media by observers who found his remarks self-indulgent, tone-deaf, or just plain awkward. People Can't Stop Criticizing Tom Hiddleston's Golden Globes Speech 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Nor is she the willful, self-indulgent dilettante she embodies in “You Wont Miss Me.” The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z Beneath all the sometimes self-indulgent showmanship, the point seemed pretty clear. Blood, Money, Oil. And Clothes. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z The intimacy can be uncomfortable at times and that closeness highlights self-indulgent tendencies, but the meaning behind lyrics which have become so well-known shines through anew. Review: Hooper's `Les Miserables' is relentless 2012-12-10T20:49:09Z Um, well come to think of it I have been doing that a lot lately, but then I love periods of decadence" – wild grin – "self-indulgent but not self-destructive, that's me. Rod Stewart: 'I've been a golden boy for too long' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-10-09T14:59:37Z To shy away from such questions at a time when others are having to make painful and difficult sacrifices would be self-indulgent. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z They were followed by experimental rockers Akron/Family who gave a spirited - if occasionally self-indulgent - performance veering from throbbing rock to hypnotic native American chanting. Fjords, funk and feedback at Norway's Bergenfest 2010-05-03T17:53:00Z Their cumulative effect is substantial, outweighing the self-indulgent philosophizing and narrative contrivances that can mar the individual movies. Watch List: Selections for Marathon Couch Time 2013-08-12T21:53:25Z His highly personal approach may appear to be self-indulgent — and at times it is — but it is more of a benefit than a drawback. HBO's Adrienne Shelly doc is a loving, wistful tribute to the filmmaker whose life was cut short 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z This self-indulgent digression is intended to validate my place at the Dusty altar. Theater Review: ‘Forever Dusty’ at New World Stages 2012-11-21T21:57:24Z Part of his problem, no doubt, is that he is arrogant, spoiled and self-indulgent. Charlie Sheen's mental health problems aren't funny 2011-03-03T09:00:03Z But without collaborators to push back against his instincts or question his ideas — the only other credited producer is his mother — Harrison’s vision reigns unchecked, to ends both excessive and self-indulgent. ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But the Telegraph's Charles Spencer found it "hard to warm to", "decadent" and "self-indulgent". Why British critics don't get The Book of Mormon 2013-03-26T18:40:04Z The Oscars have a tendency to veer into self-indulgent propaganda for the film industry. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z This Sibelius symphony was once pilloried by the critic Virgil Thomson as being “vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial beyond all description.” Review: An Orchestra of Teenagers, but No Apologies Necessary 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “Three hours? So self-indulgent,” said a film festival programmer. Venice: Can Iñárritu Beguile Oscar Voters Again With ‘Bardo’? 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Once she did, she went from being a self-indulgent socialite to a political activist. 'Sophia' a fascinating story of a princess turned revolutionary 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Winter Journal is a terrible book – the kind of self-indulgent, ill-conceived, and poorly-edited disaster that makes you doubt whether or not you could truly have liked the works that preceded it. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z I'm clearly supposed to but I don't and too often he resorts to scenes which are just people screaming at each other … This is 40 was terribly self-indulgent. RIP Richard Briers, Hynes's new sitcom and Gervais and Cleese – oops 2013-02-19T16:02:37Z There is, however, no denying that Moyles has also been guilty of being self-indulgent, arrogant, rude, occasionally homophobic and nearly always narcissistic. Chris Moyles: are you happy to see him go? 2012-07-11T11:47:31Z Was Whedon's film going to turn into a self-indulgent night of charades for his acting chums? Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z Not that the show is especially generous to her self-indulgent, solipsistic companions, either. Review: ‘Camping’ Is a Long, Uncomfortable Trip 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z That sounded good to me, even if it felt a bit on the self-indulgent side for a getaway. Unplugging in the Unofficial Capital of Yoga 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Bartok’s musical ideas are like perfect dinner party guests who are colorful, witty, and emotionally honest without turning self-indulgent. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “This is the most bloated and self-indulgent movie anyone’s ever made, and I might get away with it because of the heart attack,” he laughs. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The busy self-indulgent fella Will not learn what bliss is If he never takes the time to smell a Flower named narcissus. Style Invitational Week 1228: Drone for a loop 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But his penchant for self-indulgent, overly emotive playing usually takes over, as it did in the Grieg concerto. Review: Lang Lang Opens Philharmonic Season, as Avery Fisher Hall Is Renamed 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z I thought it was self-indulgent and faintly ludicrous in its depiction of emotional fragility for 150 pages. What are you reading today? 2013-05-01T14:49:40Z Popular websites like Gawker have dismissed O’Connell’s approach as self-indulgent while other critics berate Thought Catalog as a vacuous outlet designed solely to aid 20-somethings in hearing themselves speak. Too Sincere for the Internet? How the Web Journal Thought Catalog Sparked an Online Firestorm 2012-07-05T14:00:18Z One can actually smell the flop sweat as Larson gives an agonizingly self-indulgent monologue that recounts his failed efforts to get the play that he thought would make his Broadway career get off the ground. The worst film performances of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But at no point does Mr. Armstrong indulge in extraneous audience pandering or self-indulgent showboating. Critic?s Notebook: ?Idiot? Welcomes Back a Bad Influence 2011-01-09T23:47:39Z What if it actually is all rubbish, self-indulgent, glittery, adolescent, incontinent, with a vastly inflated view of its own importance? How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z As the show’s writers, they are so self-indulgent that the story borders on the incomprehensible. | 'Storm Still': ?King Lear? Inspires a Riff on the Endurance of Time 2011-02-27T23:00:47Z Though its characters are self-indulgent fantasists, Polanski's film is witty, sharp, stylish and wonderfully camp. Roman Polanski directs Ben Kingsley and Helena Bonham-Carter in Prada 'anti-commercial' 2012-05-22T09:52:00Z But all dreams are symbolic, even pretentious movie dreams that only appear to exist to demonstrate how much of a relentlessly self-indulgent show-off the director is. The dreams in Inception look fantastic. But what would Leonardo DiCaprio make of these? 2010-07-09T23:10:00Z It set the tone for a two-hour film that was alternately mawkish and self-indulgent and always – as Lucy seemed a perennially reluctant subject – faintly, distastefully intrusive. Hugh's Big Fish Fight and True Stories: The Kids Grow Up 2011-01-12T08:00:04Z Hopper, who gives himself some spectacularly self-indulgent moments, is often riveting, but the movie ultimately belongs to Manz, introduced in Halloween clown-face makeup happily riding in Daddy’s rig. ‘Out of the Blue’: When Dennis Hopper Cast Himself as a Dad 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Thinly repressed hostility or inexplicably self-indulgent behavior is the norm among these characters. Book review: ‘The First Bad Man,’ by Miranda July 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I know that sounds self-indulgent — and it is, a bit — but let me explain. Dinosaur nuggets and juice boxes: In defense of making lunch fun again 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Some will hail it as a fun, thought-provoking, self-improvement memoir, while critics may call it self-indulgent and shallow. Can living like a star produce a happy ending? 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z In other hands, nearly everything she does could come across as self-indulgent. For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z However, what saves Dark Blood from seeming unbearably self-indulgent is the craftsmanship. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z There was a mean-spirited quality to Macfarlane's Oscars that went beyond the usual awkward imbalance of celebrating and embarrassing a self-indulgent industry in the same show. Oscars 2013: the meanest show ever? 2013-02-25T19:02:22Z It was boring, tedious, self-indulgent, hypocritical and insufferable. Oscars Show Growing Gap Between Moviegoers and Academy 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z After reading the letter, I called Bill with a self-indulgent proposal: I didn’t have a project in mind, but what if we were to spend a couple of hours together every week? Tuesdays with William Zinsser 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z And far from feeling self-indulgent or distracting, Egan’s willingness to share her human connection to her professional endeavor makes her writing resonate with a greater power. Review | For years, one reporter investigated allegations against Bill Cosby — even when no one was listening 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But Banks has embedded that self-indulgent tragedy in the larger context of an anguished confession. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z An full hour of cloying, self-indulgent, one-on-one toadying which proved that Ross was just as proficient at bumlicking as he was at teasing. Jonathan Ross: his BBC highs and lows 2010-07-16T12:57:00Z I was unhappy and unwell at university, but I met brilliant, funny, kind people there who looked after me when things were bad and tolerated my self-indulgent despair. How to win friends – and keep them 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z But the play is such a self-indulgent, posturing performance piece that some will be tempted to check out right along with him. | 'Little Doc': ?Little Doc? by Dan Klores: Departing Friends 2010-06-21T22:46:00Z Called "Yes Please," it is, as Poehler fans might expect, funny, wise, earnest, honest, spiritually ambitious, occasionally self-indulgent and structurally messy. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Yet despite its D.I.Y. origins “High Maintenance” doesn’t feel like a self-indulgent pet project—instead, it’s more like a shoebox that opens into Narnia. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Either it's self-indulgent amateur dramatics or worthy projects that tick the right social-issues boxes. Community theatre: how Oberammergau got it right 2010-06-21T10:53:00Z Mr. Gilbert drew just about the most cogent playing I have heard from the often self-indulgent, flashy Mr. Lang. Critic?s Notebook: No More Silent Summers 2011-06-28T22:12:22Z The Book of Mormon" strikes me as a decadent and self-indulgent musical, and its mixture of satire and syrup ultimately proves repellent," wrote Spencer. Musical "Book of Mormon" opens in London to mixed reviews 2013-03-22T15:22:47Z But in pure evolutionary terms, even the pretentious, over-the-top, foolishly self-indulgent forms of haute macho beat butting heads. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z Even a filmmaker who aspires to make the next Day for Night more often than not ends up with self-indulgent bombs like Full Frontal or pleasant piffle like My Week with Marilyn. Hitchcock: To Psycho with Love 2012-11-20T13:00:50Z Frequently clumsy and tirelessly self-indulgent, the work's most powerful evocation of its title consists not in a revelation of some cosmic harmony, but in its apparent indifference to its listeners. Danish NSO/Thomas Dausgaard 2010-08-12T10:40:00Z The movie’s blend of self-aware insult humor, self-indulgent grossness, celebrity cameos and strenuous whimsy represents a fairly standard recipe for sketch-comedy-derived feature films. Movie Review: ?The Dictator,? With Sacha Baron Cohen 2012-05-15T16:30:09Z There is a line between a composer indulging himself and becoming self-indulgent. ‘Gloria — A Pig Tale’ Brings Opera to the Met Museum 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The stage seemed such a self-indulgent thing to pursue.” Joyce DiDonato, Standing on Her Own Just Fine 2010-03-20T04:45:00Z Meanwhile, tales of female suffering, though profuse, are often dismissed as trivial or self-indulgent. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Obviously, if you’ve just announced you’re marrying yourself, it is plainly a statement of self-love, and I was under no illusion how self-indulgent that might appear. I married myself 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Basically, this is a pretty self-indulgent personal project, sketchily conceived and not particularly well acted. Film review: Wah Do Dem 2010-08-26T21:40:00Z All I felt was more of that self-indulgent sadness welling up. Saved by Pop Culture: How "Six Feet Under" killed my depression 2011-04-08T12:40:00Z One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z I can’t be self-indulgent and go “Oh my God, it’s over, poor me!” Maryann Plunkett Says Goodbye to Her Lives in Rhinebeck 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Can it even begin with the question How Should a Person Be?, or will that lead to an answer that is horribly self-indulgent? How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti - review 2013-01-11T08:00:10Z Yes, it's occasionally arch, self-indulgent, even child-unfriendly, but this adult reader almost always found some new little nugget of irony, a felicitous phrase, an unsuspected insight to enjoy. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z It sounds... well, it could be rather self-indulgent, couldn't it? Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The once young god ballooned into a grotesquely self-indulgent old man. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Some find such self-references by the medium self-indulgent and their prevalance can be seen as a result of a loss of confidence by the medium. Outnumbered 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z But even as a fan, I found it very self-indulgent. The Thorn in the Heart ? review 2010-12-09T22:26:00Z A working artist is seen neither as the salt of the earth by the left, nor as a “job creator” by the right — but as a kind of self-indulgent parasite by both sides. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z It’s more like a massively self-indulgent prank, inflicted on the world by some reasonably intelligent young men, which makes it the most bro-tastic project of all time. Bathe in the self-indulgent broth of “Sausage Party,” most bro-tastic movie ever 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z It may seem rambling or self-indulgent at times. Review: ‘Painting With John’ Teaches the Art of Living 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Three men cut loose after the death of their buddy in this free-flowing to the point of self-indulgent drama. This week's new films 2012-09-28T23:05:52Z “Sort out your insecurities and guilt and self-centred, self-indulgent feelings, and get on with the job of parenting.” ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z But patience rewards what might first appear to be self-indulgent monologues — even when he seems like a gasbag, he's proved it's worth hearing him out. 'Hitch-22': the unvarnished, unapologetic Christopher Hitchens tells all 2010-06-22T00:12:00Z He doesn’t take himself too seriously, and this makes for an indie-folk-rock album that bears truth without being self-indulgent or saccharine. 3 new music releases you need this fall 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Tears are, they say, feminine, self-indulgent and melodramatic. Why do we cry – and what can we learn from our tears? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z There are a few moments in Campbell's script that feel precious — but then, the Beats were a youth-driven movement and it's the prerogative of young people to engage in self-indulgent myth-making. 'Beats' delivers a full dose of finger-snapping rebellion 2011-01-18T18:05:00Z I had mixed feelings about this self-indulgent music. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Hawley has more than proved that he’s a worthy foe of tropes and cliches, but here, his vision can at times feel detrimentally self-indulgent. Review | There’s a little too much ‘Fargo’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ but the trip is still worth taking 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Some of the events in this year's line-up, however, were described as "amateurish" and "self-indulgent" by newspaper critics. Sundance London to return in 2013 2012-10-22T10:10:45Z And as presented here, the mother’s lament seemed self-indulgent. Review: The Rare Problem of a New Opera That’s Too Short 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Family Guy, meanwhile, has become a delightfully bizarre and sometimes self-indulgent irreverent pantomime that can border on nihilism. When Peter Met Homer: A First Look at the Family Guy–Simpsons Crossover 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Coppola returns to his low-budget roots and, despite some self-indulgent touches, turns in his best film in decades. This week's new films 2010-06-25T23:05:00Z We know that it is problematic, or maybe just self-indulgent, to claim her as mother. Toni Morrison and What Our Mothers Couldn’t Say 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The self-indulgent display subjected Walter to some behind-his-back mockery in baseball circles, but the billionaire’s lack of feel was, for the most part, viewed as harmless. Column: It's time for Mark Walter to show he really is the Dodgers' controlling owner 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z "I am spoiling the quality of my lifestyle by being so self-indulgent and egotistical. I must take some material out." Ken Dodd's widow saves 'invaluable' notebooks that he wanted to go up in flames 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z Hui was an ambitious businessman who could be demanding with his staff, charismatic with creditors, and at times self-indulgent. How Evergrande’s downfall signaled China’s property crisis 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Nations predicated upon these ideals have begun to allow the erosion of what was once sacrosanct at the whim of emotive impulses and self-indulgent cultural shifts. Criminalizing Christianity: March toward ideological totalitarianism may land believers behind bars 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z One political commentator accused the Labour left of being "petty", "childish" and "self-indulgent" with its ungracious attacks on the Iron Lady's memory. Glenda Jackson obituary: 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Hansberry reserves long stretches of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” for what might be called “The World According to Sidney,” his self-indulgent joy at holding forth and picking fights. Review | Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan head sparkling cast in Hansberry revival 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z I think that people just assume it’s going to be incredibly — well, they are self-indulgent. Lauren Weedman returns to Seattle with new solo show 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Don’t get married and have children if you don’t plan to give up your self-indulgent lifestyle. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Is it selfish for a parent to take a solo vacation? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z A brilliant takedown artist or a terminally smug, self-indulgent one? All the 2023 best picture Oscar nominees ranked, from worst to best 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Rather than a self-indulgent portrait of two amazing men and their amazing careers, “Turn Every Page” bristles with ego and good-humored tension. Review | ‘Turn Every Page’ revels in the joy of working with words 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z As the Oxford English Dictionary has it, the 2022 winner describes behavior that is "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations." Words of the year 2022: We were gaslit in goblin mode 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Do you think the self-consciousness you bring to your work helps tamp down some of those worries that you’re being self-indulgent? Lauren Weedman returns to Seattle with new solo show 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Quite honestly, by the time this muddled, overcrowded, tiresomely digressive trip finally crashes like so many post-binge hangovers, Chazelle’s point has gotten lost in a self-indulgent, manically erratic shuffle. Review | ‘Babylon’ is a lavish yet unfocused valentine to Hollywood’s heyday 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The director said he first thought the project would be the "most self-indulgent thing I've ever asked people to accompany me through" - describing it as "$40m of therapy". Steven Spielberg regrets decimation of shark population after Jaws 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Cameron knows this and extends those sequences to lengths that seem a trifle self-indulgent. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ review: Visuals aside, this sequel simply treads water 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It defines the term as “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations.” Oxford Dictionaries names ‘goblin mode’ its word of the year 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The winning word, "goblin mode", is a slang term describing "unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy" behaviour. Oxford word of the year 2022 revealed as 'goblin mode' 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z After Trump lost reelection — incontrovertibly, undeniably — Dhillon was among those backing his self-indulgent legal fight and promoting unfounded claims of voter fraud. Column: California Republican tasked with assessing GOP flaws needn't look far. She's part of the problem 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z In his sentencing remarks on Friday, Justice Ian Harrison said Dawson's crime was "self-indulgent brutality" that "was neither spontaneous nor unavoidable". Chris Dawson: Husband in podcast-famous case jailed for murder 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Hutchinson wrote that "there are better choices" for a Republican nominee and called Trump's message "self-indulgent." Ex-Trump chief of staff warns “he’s the only Republican who could lose” as allies pan 2024 speech 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z And far too many chapters sound self-indulgent and redundant. Review | John Irving’s ‘The Last Chairlift’ is more of the same. A lot more. 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z It went on to explain it as "a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations". Oxford word of the year 2022 revealed as 'goblin mode' 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z They let a few anarchist troublemakers interfere and drive the protest toward looting and arson, and their occupation became a self-indulgent exercise that opened the door to the shootings. In dealing with CHOP, Seattle police failed 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z She wouldn’t feel like herself if she didn’t write novels and stories, but “it feels self-indulgent to do only that. It’s not the same as action.” The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “One makes art in order to create beauty; there’s no other reason. Any other reason is really self-indulgent, as far as I’m concerned.” The Monumental Work and Life of Barbara Chase-Riboud 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z You could call this movie, which Universal will open in theaters Nov. 11, an unusually self-indulgent project for Spielberg, a director who’s often oscillated between escapist thrill rides and weighty historical dramas. From Spielberg to Iñárritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z A rephrase, if it helps: Each of us always has a choice whether to be a decent, responsible adult or a self-indulgent adult-baby. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Am I controlling him or is he gaslighting me? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z This is self-indulgent and, dare I say it, even a bit unpatriotic. Opinion | Biden loses sight of the virtues of ‘normal’ 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z “Every artist has the right to express himself the way he wants without being accused of being self-indulgent,” Iñárritu said. The winners and losers of a muted Telluride Film Festival 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z In the movie, Silverio comes in for some harsh criticism from a former colleague, who tells him the documentary project he’s working on is too long, too self-indulgent, too pretentious. Alejandro G. Iñárritu answers critics of his new film: 'There's a kind of racist undercurrent' 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Like Morrison’s work on everything from Batman to the X-Men, except even more so, the book is wildly and sometimes tediously self-indulgent. Review: Comics icon Grant Morrison's debut novel is a marvel of Oedipal camp 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z The same is true of appetites and feelings of anger; some men become temperate and good- tempered, others self-indulgent and irascible, by behaving in one way or the other in the appropriate circumstances. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z If that happens, it won't be the first time women of all colors have had to clean up a problem caused by a bunch of self-indulgent men. How in God's name are the Democrats still losing — even after Jan. 6 hearings and Roe? 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z A year before Jan. 6, I saw Bill Barr laughing and applauding while Trump gloated through a self-indulgent monologue. Photojournalist David Butow covered Trump and Jan. 6: "I don't think there's an America anymore" 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Actually, that’s exactly at the heart of the conflict of the character: this identity politics, the idea that a Mexican cannot be doing these things, that it’s too pretentious, too self-indulgent. Alejandro G. Iñárritu answers critics of his new film: 'There's a kind of racist undercurrent' 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z "I can't imagine anything more insane and self-indulgent than deciding a Conservative beauty parade trumps all of that." Partygate: Will Boris Johnson survive June? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z The Liberal Democrats called the proposed changes "dangerous and draconian", but Home Secretary Priti Patel argued they were needed to deal with a "self-indulgent minority who seem to revel in causing mayhem and misery". PM focus on economic worries as agenda unveiled in Queen's Speech 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z As the series unfolded it was shallow, self-indulgent, tedious and pandering. Letters to Sports: Critics aplenty for 'Winning Time' portrayals, Trevor Bauer suspension 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Barr is a smart guy, but I watched him laughing and applauding along with everyone else in that room while Trump gloated his way through that self-indulgent monologue. Photojournalist David Butow covered Trump and Jan. 6: "I don't think there's an America anymore" 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Every artist has the right to express himself the way he wants without being accused of being self-indulgent. Alejandro G. Iñárritu answers critics of his new film: 'There's a kind of racist undercurrent' 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z He’s never self-indulgent while playing himself, knowing what the joke is but not acting like he’s in on it. ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ review: Is it bearable for the casual Nicolas Cage lover? 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Anonymous: What a self-indulgent roommate you have, I’m sorry. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Moody college roommate ‘puts my hair on end’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In their minds, self-indulgent citizens would readily surrender their liberties in exchange for immoral personal benefits ranging from frivolity and vice to corruption and government favoritism. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Here, baby boomers still reign supreme, in a place that caters to some of their most self-absorbed, self-indulgent impulses. Opinion | The ‘Disney’ for Boomers Puts Hedonism on Full Display 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Following a lengthy and gloriously self-indulgent opening sequence, you’re placed at the world map and told to visit a cafe. There’s still nothing quite like Gran Turismo 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But it will fall to the conflicted Cyrano to answer her deeper need for wit and poetry, ghostwriting Christian’s love letters with a florid eloquence that feels both selfless and self-indulgent. Review: Peter Dinklage earns your love in the snazzy (but not schnozzy) musical 'Cyrano' 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z On a wall directly across from an austere painting of Venice by Pierre-August Renoir, Van Gogh’s maximalist use of paint looks almost self-indulgent. You’ve seen ‘Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience.’ Now experience a real Van Gogh. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Taking an entire year off was seen as self-indulgent or a wasteful luxury. What India's restless Gen Z really wants 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The Trump Organization dismissed the effort as a "ridiculous charade" and "self-indulgent, baseless nonsense." Trump’s struggling UK golf courses claimed $4 million in Covid aid while he was president 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z The looseness of “Love and Fury” can make it feel self-indulgent, as though Harjo just cut together a bunch of disconnected footage of his friends and colleagues and called it a documentary. Review: Sterlin Harjo's affecting 'Love and Fury' collects stories of Native American artists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The only thing more wasteful than this article is the amount of money being thrown away by self-indulgent, overpaid corporate leaders. Letters to Sports: Tales from the Crypto.com Arena coming soon 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z But our democracy will not function properly until the right-wing’s self-indulgent excess is routed. Opinion | Anthony Gonzalez gets what Democrats need to know 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z "Really appalling behavior. And this insinuation that Naomi owes her off-court success to the media is a myth — don’t be so self-indulgent." Naomi Osaka breaks down in tears, briefly exits press conference after question about media relationship 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z "It was an arrangement whereby she would bring him the girls, and he would give Ghislaine the kind of self-indulgent life that she was accustomed to growing up," Giuffre says in the book. Ghislaine Maxwell was a 'tyrant' with Jeffrey Epstein victims: report 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z When you teach self-indulgence and narcissism, you are going to get a bunch of self-indulgent narcissists, not just in your colleges but even on your tennis courts. When safe spaces for the coddled young move from college campus to tennis courts 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z For many, the experience of visiting the chain is a self-indulgent treat. Starbucks, Flush With Customers, Is Running Low on Ingredients 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z If that sounds self-indulgent, given that it’s coming from a journalist who distributes his work via email, I apologize. Will Apple end the newsletter boom? 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Furthermore, Goldsmith, brother to Middleton’s mother Carole, said that "if Harry doesn’t get a grip and stop this self-indulgent episode, there will soon be no common ground or relationship to rebuild." Kate Middleton is ‘trying to mediate’ Prince Harry, Prince William’s reconciliation, uncle says 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z I've been sketching here the highly self-indulgent claims to omniscience of people who consider themselves credentialed and entitled to determine a republic's grand strategies. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z At times it felt “futile and pointless and self-indulgent,” she says, to be working on a book about self-care in a time of political crisis. Alison Bechdel tried to write a light book. Fortunately, she failed 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z And even now, after spending much time in the app, I find many of the rooms boring, chaotic, self-indulgent, or, at worst, scammy. Can Clubhouse keep the party going? 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Even though his self-indulgent and frustrating style of play means less teamwork, PSG remains more dangerous with him and needs him for the run-in. PSG needs Neymar return to boost its fading title defense 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z His may be a stunted, self-indulgent vision, but that’s arguably better than no vision at all. Review: 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' has arrived. It's been a long wait — and so is the movie. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Hopefully that'll put a stop to some of the ceremony's more self-indulgent speeches. Grammys 2021: Seven things to look out for - and how to watch the ceremony 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z It seemed so extravagant and self-indulgent with people getting sick and dying. Many of our lives became static during the past year. These people chose new directions. Like Trump’s pressers, these were often stream of conscious, self-absorbed and self-indulgent, but Cuomo inspired by also exuding compassion and cautious optimism. Opinion | Why were liberals so blind about Andrew Cuomo? They wanted to believe. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Scott confronted the intra-party battles head-on this week, telling his colleagues in a sternly worded two-page memo this week that “now is not the time for division” and “self-indulgent divisions.” Sen. Rick Scott woos CPAC to bridge divide between Trump, Mitch McConnell 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z She was ridiculed as self-indulgent, insincere and insensitive. A Child of China’s Gilded Elite Strikes a Nerve Over Wealth and Privilege 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The title of the episode was notable considering that Moore savaged the Bay Area in his 1989 film “Roger and Me” as a hornet’s nest of self-indulgent liberals. Make America California Again? That's Biden's plan 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z After filling his supporters’ heads with anger and lies, after provoking them to violence, he posted on Twitter a typically half-hearted, self-indulgent, whiny plea. We can be outraged, saddened, terrified. But we can’t be surprised by what happened at the Capitol 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Trump loves nothing better than to deliver self-indulgent, stream-of-consciousness rants in front of adoring crowds. Trump not likely to quietly tip-toe away 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But what is more pertinent than Trump acting like the spoiled, petulant, self-indulgent man-child he has always been is how badly congressional Republicans are behaving. A new era of what-about-ism: Media already feeling pressure to cover Biden "corruption" 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “The need to transform the unethical, greedy, and self-indulgent behavior characteristic of the UAW leadership is long overdue.” Former UAW exec gets 2 1/2 years in prison for kickback 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Believe it or not, the world did not stop turning on its axis because of the US election and ensuing, self-indulgent disputes in the land of the free-for-all. US poll chaos is a boon for the enemies of democracy the whole world over 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z "When I'm deep in the music world I feel quite self-indulgent," she says. The pop star doctor who answered the Covid call 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z To gaze upon oneself in the midst of grief was to engage in sinful, self-indulgent vanity, to ignore the ephemeral nature of life, and to taunt the fact of one's own mortality. From digital filters to plastic surgery, "Zoom vanity" has a long history 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Another piece, a self-indulgent narrative about an abusive marriage, with a glancing reference to horse racing, could be chopped in half. Review | In sports, winners get the glory. What happens to everyone else? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z There are things that journalists can do over the next two months to resist our more self-indulgent impulses, do great journalism and stay off the ballot. Journalists Aren’t the Enemy of the People. But We’re Not Your Friends. 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z And it's entirely the consequence of the most irresponsible, self-indulgent, reckless and easily-manipulated president in history. We just passed 6 million cases, and it didn't have to be like this — if we'd had a leader 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z "Beneath it all, Prebble holds the reins firmly in her fist and Piper keeps us - just, just - on the side of an endlessly charismatic but volatile, self-indulgent character," wrote Lucy Mangan. Five-star reviews for Billie Piper's TV return 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z At a moment when novels were tackling post-colonialism and family dysfunction, would my concerns with derailed erotic journeys suggest I was a frivolous, self-indulgent creature, someone unlikely to be a good mother? Perspective | How literature can mirror our complicated desires 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z It seemed self-indulgent to write about media angst when the country is self-immolating because of unchecked disease and an economic catastrophe that’s about to get much worse. Opinion | Do Progressives Have a Free Speech Problem? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z “You’d be called self-indulgent, which I am all the time,” Kaufman said. This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It’s probably the best work of Ruffalo’s career — but I found myself bailing after just one episode because the show felt like a self-indulgent dirge. Emmy 2020 predictions, limited series: All 'Watchmen' all the time 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z At a period of national turmoil, Trump appeared self-indulgent and overtly political as he posed for photos that his aides quickly turned into a propaganda-style montage. Lafayette Square clash, still reverberating, becomes an iconic episode in Donald Trump’s presidency 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Will he further politicize the military by delivering a self-indulgent, campaign-style speech, like the one he gave before a Boy Scout Jamboree in 2017? Breach swells between Trump, military brass 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Australia’s finance minister, Mathias Cormann, called Black Lives Matter protesters reckless, selfish and self-indulgent, after tens of thousands took to the streets across the country on Saturday. Global report: Bolsonaro hides Brazil's coronavirus death toll and case totals 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Drawn to the confines of the seminary, Brown intended to become a Jesuit priest — trying, as he put it, “to overcome the self-indulgent, weak part of human nature.” Review: Jerry Brown gets the biography he deserves 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z It is deeply confusing, dementedly self-indulgent, to kind of want to be in a city soundtracked by ambulance sirens. New York Is Wounded. I Miss It More Than Ever. 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z But some personal digressions might strike readers as self-indulgent. Staying healthy indoors, the past and future of power, and shoe libraries: Books in brief 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z I’d been told that my style was neither commercial nor fashionable enough to succeed, and that there was no market for books set in rural France, filled with self-indulgent descriptions of food. 'I was told there was no market for foody books set in rural France': Joanne Harris on writing Chocolat 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Unlike Trump’s self-indulgent soliloquies, Cuomo’s statements were straightforward, honest, factual and, despite the dire statistics, refreshingly reassuring. Opinion | Let Andrew Cuomo speak for America, not Trump 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z I began to see my old pessimism as juvenile and self-indulgent. Optimism in a Dark Time 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z There were whispers that it might be a self-indulgent mess, that Kojima had gone entirely off the deep end. Hideo Kojima’s Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z His self-indulgent essay paints himself as both tragic victim and courageous hero. Coming out as gay doesn't absolve you of your anti-LGBTQ history | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z If one of the candidates who competed in Iowa were emerging as a strong front-runner, Bloomberg could look more like a self-indulgent ego-tripper than a potential savior. Opinion | Mike Bloomberg won the Iowa caucuses 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “The Rhythm Section” was directed by Reed Morano, who did a nice job with the first few episodes of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but who seems a bit self-indulgent here. Review | ‘The Rhythm Section’ is about the making of an assassin — and, potentially, another cliched movie franchise 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z For years afterwards, the full breakfast continued to feel gloriously self-indulgent. The fry-up may be toast – but, much to my own surprise, I don’t really care | Tony Naylor 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z He told the Guardian that he became a Conservative when visiting Paris during the 1968 student protests, which he saw as an "unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans" professing "ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook". Conservative thinker Roger Scruton dies at 75 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Trump’s rants seem — and often are — irrational, undisciplined and self-indulgent. Opinion | Will we be enemies — or fellow citizens? 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z This kind of self-representation, he argued, was a Western construct, and its focus on Chinese misogyny, or the “icky-gooey evil” of Chinese culture, was a self-indulgent play to please white readers. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Mrs Vaughan Jones said friends told her writing the article was "a brave thing to do", but that to her it felt "purely self-indulgent" as it was like "free therapy". 'Last embryo' boy born after 15 rounds of IVF 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z In fact it often seems that those writing memoirs, far from being narcissists, need constant encouragement that their story is worth telling, that they’re not being self-indulgent, that it’s OK to use the word “I”. The naked truth: how to write a memoir 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z It really is like watching a movie—an absurdly long, messy, beautiful, ridiculous, occasionally moving, and frequently self-indulgent movie. The Blockbuster Video Game That Wants to “Make America Whole Again” 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Is this all vanity, or is it self-indulgent?’” she said. Let 'Waves' duo Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Taylor Russell break your heart and piece it back together 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He doesn't dispute that Christmas is an important time of year for retailers, but says it's hard to justify the sort of "lavish self-indulgent campaigns" we typically see. Christmas adverts - do they really work? 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z They’re just the people who interested me in, really, an incredibly self-indulgent act of serendipity. Andrew Roberts: ‘We’re lucky Churchill was so egotistical’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z But no President should use the word in the off-hand and self-indulgent way that Mr. Trump did in his tweet. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z At its worst, it was as self-indulgent as the artists they affected to despise, filled with attitudes and language that simply wouldn’t fly today. Nick Tosches: the writer who made his prose rock and roll 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z For every classic like Sign O' The Times or Exile On Main Street, there's a skip-load of failed experiments and self-indulgent nonsense. Foals on why they 'relish a knuckle-dragging riff' 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The plot revolves around the old monarch’s self-indulgent folly, dividing his kingdom among his daughters not on merit but on flattery. Opinion | Trump is looking a lot like King Lear — but this tragedy is far from over 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z No other candidates need apply — and certainly not any who, if asked, might politely decline to appear in such a self-indulgent exercise as that commercial. Anthony Rendon’s MVP case is gaining momentum but running out of time 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The first reviews of the film have been broadly positive - but many critics have highlighted the self-indulgent nature of the film and a lack of journalistic rigour - a result of the chosen contributors. The Band documentary opens Toronto Film Festival 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Many Britons see Parliament’s idiosyncratic — and arguably self-indulgent — use of language as evidence that politicians are hopelessly out of touch. British PM ruffles feathers with ‘chlorinated chicken’ taunt 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Many Britons see Parliament’s idiosyncratic - and arguably self-indulgent - use of language as evidence that politicians are hopelessly out of touch. British PM ruffles feathers with ‘chlorinated chicken’ taunt 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Millennials are no more self-indulgent than any post-boomer generation and as the prospect of saving for big things, such as houses, becomes ever more distant, why bother? How to eat: avocado toast 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z When people talk about the self-portraiture or confessional writing, there’s often a pejorative edge to it, as though you’re being self-indulgent or as if there’s something wrong with it. Del LaGrace Volcano’s best photograph: a self-portrait, in the space between genders 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Women’s emotions, particularly their rage, are often deemed overblown or self-indulgent, and marginalized people are frequently told that they are exaggerating for perverse effect. The Mail 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Paul and celebrity chef Erasmus live an extravagant, self-indulgent lifestyle. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z On Johnson’s critics within his own party, he suggested Hammond “needs a rest” and said: “I can’t see any of them being self-indulgent enough to bring the government down.” Boris Johnson on course to win Tory leadership contest 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “Bishop Bransfield has been enjoying a self-indulgent lifestyle,” Brown wrote in a letter that was copied to two other clerics in Rome. Warnings about West Virginia bishop went unheeded as he doled out cash gifts to Catholic leaders 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z He hates these words that are spilling from his mouth, so sanctimonious and self-indulgent. Why is Trent Dilfer coaching high school football? One reason is the son he lost. 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Soap-style, the case displayed an arrogant, unfaithful husband and an extravagantly self-indulgent wife, both people with immense riches but little to do. Claus von Bülow obituary 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Fewer self-indulgent fantasies is the right idea for a moment like ours. Opinion | I have an announcement. I’m not running for president. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z With that in mind, Endgame doesn’t just play as a wild tangle of interacting plotlines and self-indulgent personal rabbit holes for these characters. Avengers: Endgame — our spoiler-free review 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z "I didn't want it to be self-indulgent… it's so easy to write about misery, everybody gets challenges and misery." They were abused as children, but art is their therapy 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z And if people think it’s self-indulgent, I just say, it’s my money, I’ve worked really hard for it, I’m not getting any help from anyone. Meet ‘Baseball Brit,’ the British guy traveling to 162 baseball games this season 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z But where do you draw the line between an interpretation that is freeing—and thus freeing to the audience, too—and one that is just frustratingly and bafflingly self-indulgent? Sam Gold’s Self-Serving Vision of “King Lear” 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z It didn’t occur to Trump to provide context: he simply saw the news and reacted reflexively, with the latest in a series of self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing missives. Why Trump should avoid conversations about electrical workers 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “To be talking about changing the players on the board, frankly, is self-indulgent at this time.” Brexit up in the air as May faces possible plot, parliament tries... 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Beto got dinged in the press for seeming rootless and self-indulgent. Are Beto and Amy O'Rourke the future of politics or the past? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The stakes are too high for self-indulgent sectarianism. Opinion | A very British lesson for the American left 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Paul Flynn wrote on his blog: "It's a disgrace that political parties are playing self-indulgent games with orchestrated resignations on the hour as part of an organised treachery." Obituary: Paul Flynn 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z The weirdness everyone was raving about seemed rather self-indulgent. Why even lesbianism and bunnies couldn’t make me love The Favourite | Arwa Mahdawi 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z They accept that this period of self-exploration and arguably self-indulgent social media posts may confuse some mainstream Democrats. Can Oprah help restore the Beto O’Rourke glow? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In the title song, he sings completely in a computer fog, a self-indulgent mess of a tune which album producer Brandon Darner evidently did not work hard enough to stop. Review: Dave Keuning’s solo album has a homemade feel, alas 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In China, they are often described as self-indulgent, spoiled, and lacking resilience. Kim Jong-un, 'the most extraordinary millennial', visits China 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Trump, lazy and self-indulgent, appears to think, when he thinks at all, almost entirely of himself. With James Mattis Leaving Trump’s Cabinet, What Comes Next? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z It made me feel embarrassed, depressed, overwhelmed and self-indulgent. Opinion | I Got Rejected 101 Times 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Walton is the worst, most self-indulgent, annoying announcer I have ever heard, period. Letters: Chargers doing their best to make themselves at home in L.A. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Home Secretary Sajid Javid said a leadership contest would be seen as "self-indulgent and wrong" and was the “last thing our country needs right now.” British Prime Minister Theresa May to face no-confidence vote by her own party's lawmakers 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z We’re taught that talking about our dreams is juvenile, self-indulgent, and that we should shake off their traces and get on with our day. Opinion | Why Do You Keep Dreaming You Forgot Your Pants? It’s Science 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The president lauded Mr. McConnell as a “rock-ribbed Kentucky leader” and “a tough cookie” before a self-indulgent addendum. A Court Victory Heals All Wounds: Trump Calls McConnell ‘the Greatest Leader in History’ 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z But it’s self-indulgent and lazily offensive, invoking racial stereotypes and snarky jokes about transgender people rather than anything of actual insight. Review: Riffing on addiction, 'Morning, Noon & Night' offers little insight - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Not to be too self-indulgent, but that was a big part in my thinking about “Every Man a King.” Poll reveals deep divisions over Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z From Trump’s perspective, his historic greatness should simply be accepted as if it were self-evidently true, the way sycophantic supporters applaud his every claim at his self-indulgent rallies. At the U.N., Trump finds the world literally laughing at him 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The reaction online to the pieces was swift, with readers pointing out the factual errors and self-indulgent excesses of the pieces. The male cultural elite is staggeringly blind to #Me Too. Now it's paying for it | Moira Donegan 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Their criticisms of brutalism as self-indulgent high art helped me to understand what I loved so much about the concrete dinosaurs that they did so much to push from fashion. Robert Venturi obituary 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z He wasn’t interested in gambling — he spent a total of $1.05 on slot machines — but went there to study the buildings, signs and roads in what may be America’s most garishly self-indulgent city. Robert Venturi, postmodern architect who argued ‘Less is a bore,’ dies at 93 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A negative review in the Hollywood Reporter called the film “excruciatingly self-indulgent” as well as “ugly and off-putting.” Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry challenge themselves and the audience with 'Her Smell' 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The routine looks cool when it ends with a penalty converted; self-indulgent when it is not. Lukaku double gives Manchester United victory but Rashford sees red at Burnley 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z He avoids being self-indulgent about it — he doesn’t find his own despair very interesting — but there’s a sense of dislocation and loss shaping his art and his life. How Dev Hynes, English Misfit, Became Blood Orange, R.&B. Miracle Worker 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z In a written statement, the Maricopa County attorney’s office called the lawsuit “self-indulgent” and said it remained committed to steering drug offenders into treatment. Caught With Pot? Get-Out-of-Jail Program Comes With $950 Catch 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z The president’s self-indulgent military parade would’ve cost more than six times that total. Faced with a soaring price tag, Trump's military parade unravels 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z This line of thought is, to say the least, a little self-indulgent. Britain is weaker alone 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The father’s trite, self-indulgent prose jars with the son’s laconic style. How Jorge Barón Biza Turned His Family Tragedy Into Fiction 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z An election is seen as less likely, with MPs painfully aware the public would not relish yet another call on their attention, and it could be seen as self-indulgent given the Brexit deadlines. Eight months to Brexit: what happens next? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The suggestion that young people are uniquely intolerant and self-indulgent is a useful way of avoiding talking about other things. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Grzegorek and Hurley, along with Corbett, have opened themselves up to rampant speculation about their intentions with this self-indulgent political stunt. Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z That will at times entail setting aside our profits and our precious convenience, and it may seem like a stretch to imagine our self-indulgent species ever acting on this reality. Opinion | Selling the Protected Area Myth 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z But there's also something deliciously self-indulgent about watching all the movies you want, without paying for them or feeling guilty about the time you're spending on them. These Apps Don't Exist Yet--but They Should 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z As professionals, accountants are generally trusted to self-regulate – with predictably self-indulgent outcomes. The financial scandal no one is talking about 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z These images appear inescapable, and in today’s social media-driven ecosystem, they’re often seen as self-indulgent or fueled by a need for affirmation and acceptance. These Famous Women Artists Changed the World With Their Self-Portraits 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Leto” is undeniably woozy and borderline self-indulgent, which is to say it pretty much nails its moment. Russian drama takes the stage at Cannes in the sweet 'Leto' and the scathing 'Donbass' 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent. Britain’s Wedding-Mad Tabloids Feel a Cold Royal Shoulder 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z I’d like to do some good in the world and it’s so much less self-indulgent than being a writer. Curtis Sittenfeld: ‘I have declined to write fiction about Melania Trump double digits of times’ 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z For literary women, such as Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys, drinking was seen as weak, melodramatic or self-indulgent. Whisky, ink and the road to ruin 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s self-indulgent and repetitive, and it makes widely diverse characters from around the world all feel like identically drawn Ernest Cline clones. What the Armada adaptation can learn from Ready Player One’s successes 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z That is not a call for self-indulgent chest-thumping or blind confrontation. Opinion | Putin Has Overplayed His Hand 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Identity politics has been criticised by the left as “a moralistic, self-indulgent anti-politics” that fails to confront society’s material conditions. The far right hates vaginas. Why doesn’t this anger the left more? | Marina Prentoulis 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z While “Tomorrow Will Be Different” is the story of McBride’s journey, she admits that the idea of writing a memoir at age 27 seemed self-indulgent or absurd at first. Review | Putting a face on the struggle for transgender rights 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z But it was not until 2013 that United decided that Twitter was not just — or not only, anyway — a self-indulgent fad. At Manchester United, a Win to Celebrate but Not to Savor 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z Ready Player One is a self-indulgent but celebratory novel about the pop culture Cline loves. What the Armada adaptation can learn from Ready Player One’s successes 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z It was full of screams and dives and needless flourishes, a mess of individuals in desperate need of structure, self-absorbed and self-indulgent. Neymar wilts in Madrid as superclub tie descends into Disneyfied dystopia | Jonathan Wilson 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Judge Stephen Hopkins QC said Mrs Miller was "an innocent young woman" who was killed by the "stupid, dangerous and self-indulgent actions" of two young drivers. Drivers jailed for mum's death crash 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z State and federal money was scarce too, in part because Miami was seen by many Americans as a rich, self-indulgent city that had ignored decades of warnings about building too close to the water. The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Gopnik describes the memoir essay as “the least self-indulgent form” because it lets the reader know “that your troubled and confused inner life is no more troubled or confused than everybody else’s”. Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s an almost ludicrously self-indulgent way of interpreting gradations of hyperaffluence, but I could also see Lee’s point. The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Gardner conceded that exploring was a self-indulgent activity. British explorer Benedict Allen 'alive and well' in Papua New Guinea 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z “They’re a bit too self-indulgent and just too much like, ‘Come on. Outtakes: Sam Smith on George Michael, Rihanna and drinking 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Sometimes I feel very self-indulgent and bratty and ungrateful, and no good music comes out of that. Me and the Muse: Perfume Genius on his sources of inspiration 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s inhumane model bookers, self-indulgent designers, greedy stage parents and other creative types who treat women as something other than sentient, thoughtful, individuals. Perspective | The utter meaninglessness of the fashion industry’s shunning of Terry Richardson 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z He understands that his unremitting coarseness satisfies their unpolitical agenda of smashing crockery, even though his self-indulgent floundering precludes fulfillment of the promises he flippantly made to assuage their sense of being disdained. Opinion | Sinister figures lurk around our careless president 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Messenger Lite is the messaging app not just for people on a limited data budget, but also for those with limited patience for self-indulgent mobile apps. Facebook’s Messenger Lite is actually really good 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “The whole thing is a little bit unreal to us,” said his father, Andrew, who initially thought his son’s pursuit of big-time college football was fanciful and even self-indulgent. Perspective | A 5-foot-7 Georgetown grad became Maryland football’s most unlikely player 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The ruling class became hoggishly self-indulgent: Mr Heffer lacerates Edward VII for his habit of sponging off his friends and debauching their wives. The decadent late-Victorian and Edwardian era 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z To cite a high-profile example, when Francis Ford Coppola finally got to release his director’s cut of Apocalypse Now, the overwhelming consensus was that the shorter, less crazily self-indulgent version of Coppola’s film was superior. New edits and director's cuts: are they lost gems or simply second best? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The speech not only included juvenile taunts, as if this were another one of the president’s self-indulgent red-state rallies, but it served as a reminder that Trump’s foreign policy vision is increasingly incoherent. Trump reportedly ignored White House aides ahead of U.N. speech 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, she thinks it is "self-indulgent" to dwell on the past. Dame Kiri 'won't sing in public again' 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z "I worry that if I think I talk about it all the time I feel self-indulgent. But it's not only diabetics who like it and it opens up conversations." The designer who weaves clothes with her blood - BBC News 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z "She would have called it self-indulgent nonsense. "But her generation knew how to feed themselves for where they were from and how they were made. Why I gave up being vegan - BBC News 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And let’s not forget their dramatic and, in the eyes of many, self-indulgent decision to burn £1m of royalties in a final symbol of their disdain for the major labels’ domination of the music industry. The return of the KLF: pop's greatest provocateurs take on a post-truth world 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z One of her closest friends was Coward, the gay playwright and entertainer who based a character on Mrs. Blackwell in his 1956 play “Volcano,” about the self-indulgent lives of island aristocrats. Mistress and muse of James Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, dies at 104 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z “Isn’t a life based on seeking personal happiness by nature self-centered, even self-indulgent?” he writes. Does Spirituality Make You Happy? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z And from their perspective, our prevailing mood of despair is irrational, and frankly a bit self-indulgent. Is the world really better than ever? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Young Roman emperor Caligula may have insisted on being worshiped as a living god, but a self-indulgent three-year reign that exhausted Rome’s treasury provoked a gang of Roman loyalists to stab him 30 times. 'These are not bright guys': watching the Trumps bring about their own destruction | Van Badham 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z To describe “Endless Poetry” as self-indulgent would be entirely accurate and not even remotely insulting. With 'Endless Poetry,' Alejandro Jodorowsky leads us on a surreally inventive tour of his young adulthood 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z To some reviewers, it was self-indulgent of her to keep making films about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Sofia Coppola on being a pioneer for women directors 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The feelings of sadness evoked by Joy Division’s classic song and the Ian Curtis myth, Brannon suggests, are quite understandable, but are also verging on the self-indulgent. Factory outlet: the art inspired by Joy Division and New Order 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z On the other hand, if trophy hunters want to keep shooting they need to convince the world their hobby isn’t a self-indulgent blood sport. Rewilding Mozambique – funded in part by trophy hunting 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z But Graham Brady, who chairs the influential 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative lawmakers, said a "self-indulgent" party leadership campaign would only cause more uncertainty. Theresa May Reshuffles Cabinet Amid Calls for Her to Step Down 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z On another show, this obsession might seem grotesque, self-indulgent. The Apocalypse According to “The Leftovers” 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z To her political fans, she is the radical left voice of principled resistance; to her critics, the worst sort of adolescent idealist: unrealistic, self-indulgent. ‘Fiction takes its time’: Arundhati Roy on why it took 20 years to write her second novel 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s not meant to be grandiose or self-indulgent because everybody salts the earth in a way. Richie Kotzen solo tour behind album ‘Salting Earth’ comes to Rams Head On Stage 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z This means more work for the next generation of autoethnographers, and more work for the cynics who trawl journals for "self-indulgent" studies to mock on Twitter. 'Mesearch' - when study really is all about me - BBC News 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z And without being over self-indulgent but bravely self-revealing, so it is. In ‘Ode,’ Seattle actress channels dark memories, midlife triumphs 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z I told Pozner that, having lost someone in 9/11, I understood how painful it is for people to use your tragedy for their own self-indulgent obsession. Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner on death threats: ‘I never imagined I’d have to fight for my child’s legacy’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z "Shipley deserves an MP that will represent the needs and interests of all its constituents, instead of one who spends constituency time on a self-indulgent anti-women campaign," she said. General election 2017: Women's Equality Party leader to challenge MP Philip Davies - BBC News 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z That minibreak in Stockholm suddenly doesn’t seem so self-indulgent; she books it quickly, mentally tapping her back pocket like in the old Asda adverts. Please bring back my old British Airways | Victoria Coren Mitchell 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Sceptical academics have taken to Twitter to expose what they regard as the most self-indulgent and unscientific examples of autoethnography. 'Mesearch' - when study really is all about me - BBC News 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The real Cromwell was a cunning conspirator who tore up the old order in service of a self-indulgent, wife-killing king who forced a breakaway religion on his subjects. Steve Bannon, a latter-day Thomas Cromwell 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “Should that happen,” Schama continued, “the complacent dismissal of resistance art as the self-indulgent playtime of a defeated ‘elite’ will die on the faces of the powerful. Writers unite! The return of the protest novel 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Even when the material is not shocking, the treatment is often self-indulgent. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Yet now, with the blessing of the president, this overwrought, self-indulgent and otherwise forgettable work may prove not just commercially successful but politically influential. Review | Trump tweeted that this new immigration book is a ‘must read.’ So I read it — and you must not. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z Keep the tape rolling and most listeners will lose interest while you risk coming across as self-indulgent. These are the songs that never end: 10 of music's most rewarding long cuts 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z It’s just self-indulgent displacement, performed by people who want to turn their faces away from the horrors of factory farms and animal slaughter but fund it anyway. Free range is a con. There’s no such thing as an ethical egg | Chas Newkey-Burden 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Since Election Day, Trump has managed to squander good faith and guarded hope with flagrant displays of self-indulgent tweeting, chaotic administration, willful ignorance, and ethical sludge. Preserve, Protect, and Defend 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Tone-deaf, self-indulgent, frivolous – whatever the angle, not one of them is flattering. Theresa May’s Vogue shoot is a smart fashion statement | Anne Perkins 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But Christopher Stevens in The Daily Mail gave it no stars and said that the episode was "an abject, flailing, noxious mess", "shockingly bad" and "self-indulgent rubbish". Sherlock finale ratings hit all-time low - BBC News 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z |
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