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self-indulgent
1. After all, it had been such self-indulgent feelings that had brought about her attempt on her own life in the first place, and had led to Brock's grave illness
2. I was young, but not too young to realize that it was a forbidden object in the Abnegation faction, a useless and therefore a self-indulgent one
3. sins that are dear to our self-indulgent hearts and
4. “After I had realized that both materialism and asceticism are self-indulgent, I went to contemplate all that I had learned, to logically sort out what could and could not be known with certainty
5. " It's good to know that there is a bloody good reason to plough through all this otherwise this would be the longest self-indulgent ramble on record
6. We moderns with our undisciplined, self-indulgent, materialistic, decadent lifestyles have become a toothsome delight for the demons who suck us
7. the self-indulgent lifestyle would serve to create a new identity
8. As the so-called “nuclear family” slips under the cold, dark waters of self-indulgent economic stupidity, government and religion-enforced marital cupidity, and what seems to be an inborn propensity of the human male to exhibit violent, aggressive behavior towards mate and offspring (not unlike chimps and assorted other great apes), the reversal is complete
9. “Should not” here serves an exhortation, such as when you say to a self-indulgent man: “should not you repent since you have become white-haired?”
10. Art for art's sake is like excellence for excellence's sake – self-indulgent
11. It was pointless and self-indulgent
12. But the fact is: anything that is too good is instantly taken off the shelf and replaced with shoddier goods because consumers who are self-indulgent do not want quality
13. Self-indulgent consumers are not capable of even noticing which product is better or worse
14. Once you are brainwashed into the idea that selective choice is only supposed to be used to ‘please’ yourself as corruptly and lazily, and self-indulgently as possible; then idiots buy ‘the clapper’ because they’re too lazy to get off the chair to turn off a light
15. The self-indulgent excuse is that he smokes a pipe
16. The healthier, harder, more honest, less self-indulgent ethos of European Philosophy
17. Once in power, Hitler becomes a recluse: he lives exactly as the old imperial royal families once lived: a life of pure self-indulgent indolence: watching movies late into the night, sleeping late, taking walks, never working; leaving all minor policy decisions in the hands of his underlings
18. The extraordinarily obese and self-indulgent sailor owned and commanded the twin-masted schooner Mairee Zhain, which had been caught running contraband—better than seventy thousand marks’ worth of Chisholmian whiskeys and Charisian luxury goods—into Gorath in defiance of Zhaspahr Clyntahn’s embargo and King Rhanyld’s own decrees
19. Santos saw the leather couch as self-indulgent, what would she think about recreational jogging?
20. We used to joke that the big status symbol for one’s office at O’Neil was not getting new carpet, but getting new duct tape to repair the rips in your old office carpet! All joking aside, you will not find a Google-like “habitat” where extravagant and self-indulgent perks are an intrinsic part of the environment
21. So now it’s your turn, however much your head pounds from your self-indulgent folly
22. He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too—not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling