Example sentences for: self-indulgent

How can you use “self-indulgent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Keirsey's book Please Understand Me II , ESFP's are described as "inclined to be impulsive and self-indulgent, which makes them vulnerable to seduction.

  • Well, Oprah" (Mim Udovitch, New York ). The main gripes: that The Kiss represents an act of self-plagiarism, since Harrison's first novel recounts the same story; that her prose is by turns flat and overheated, "chockablock with romance-novel clichés" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post); and that her need to confess is self-indulgent.

  • David Foster Wallace bashes Updike's Toward the End of Time in the New York Observer : "[S]o mind-bendingly clunky and self-indulgent that it's hard to believe the author let it be published in this kind of shape."

  • The older generation sees them as spoiled and self-indulgent.

  • A friend who has seen her book proposal reports that it is classic Joyce: gossipy, un-prudish, and self-indulgent, with very little information about Salinger's literary pursuits.


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