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:

  • Quentin Tarantino's first film since Pulp Fiction reinforces reviewers' mixed opinion of him as clever but self-indulgent.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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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