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:

  • Time deems the book "definitive" but too harsh: "Morris struggles for fairness but portrays Luce as a calculating, self-indulgent user whose fixed eye on the main chance rendered her oblivious to the concerns of others."

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

  • Still, critics say the daughter has inherited the father's "gift for fine, lapidary prose [and] carefully controlled language" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). The book wins praise largely because of its keen rendering of the self-indulgent '70s.

  • The third installment in the adventures of Henry Bech, an aging urban Jewish writer, is deemed "one of Updike's less ambitious works" but still "filled with pleasures" (Brian Morton, the Chicago Tribune ). Although said to be occasionally self-indulgent, this collection of interconnected stories is hailed as generally witty, and its sendups of the publishing business are reported to have hit home.

  • 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.


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