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