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"self-indulgence" Definitions
  1. the fact of allowing yourself to have or do things that you like, especially when you do this too much or too often

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Under Bill Clinton, it was a place of monumental self-indulgence.
It actually demonstrated self-indulgence and a lack of political maturity.
They are the personal sins — laziness, self-indulgence, drinking, sleeping around.
The political opportunity costs of such progressive self-indulgence are steep.
Everything else is thought to lead to inefficiency and self-indulgence.
It changes constantly, with the only constant being his self-indulgence.
The comments that came afterward are an exercise in hilarious self-indulgence.
Being kind to yourself isn't self-indulgence; it's validating your own worth.
But their movement looked awkward, and their theater rarely transcended embarrassed self-indulgence.
And Williams' eulogy isn't the only memorial to be accused of self-indulgence.
This practice of corporate self-indulgence is not new, but it's grown enormously.
The House has fallen into a black pit of partisanship and self-indulgence.
Does this perfect storm of self-indulgence and media and public complicity sound familiar?
Conservatives look at liberals' emphasis on self-expression and see weakness and self-indulgence.
Such uninhibited invention can delight — and can easily tip over into tiresome self-indulgence.
Sierra is struggling to balance motherhood and her career (and spirituality and self-indulgence).
But that art is conceived as essentially a form of self-indulgence ("delight in one's own person") is a problem — if only because it puts the writer's art of self-indulgence at cross-purposes with any attempt to focus attention on the painter's.
There is significant flab on these bones, sins of writerly self-indulgence and authorial indiscipline.
IN WALKING A middle path, between self-indulgence and self-mortification, Buddhists face great temptations.
The Moon clashes with Jupiter in Libra at 10:56 PM, creating major self-indulgence.
Hemingway was a man who embraced every self-indulgence that can afflict a successful person.
These are personal essays about influence and inspiration; accordingly, they can veer into self-indulgence.
A vote for a third-party candidate goes beyond foolishness; it is simply self-indulgence.
By contrast, Plato argued, the surest signs of a bad leader are narcissism and self-indulgence.
After more than a decade of reckless self-indulgence, being Cali sober is the ultimate trip.
"Millennial consumers, in particular, love the idea of self-indulgence, and subscription companies really understand this."
Rather than being "bored" or "sniggering," Twombly happily embraced the more offensive sin of self-indulgence.
A decade of political self-indulgence is leaving the country without a credible voice in Asia.
It's a new platform, separate from anything that happened last year, for his own self-indulgence.
It is also bad for London, turning it into a bubble of self-satisfaction and self-indulgence.
Only, my relatively minor moment of self-indulgence had turned out to have some pretty severe consequences.
A decade of political self-indulgence at home risks leaving us without a credible voice in Asia.
In the disparate reactions that follow shared trauma, the episode examines self-indulgence, denial, and, finally, joy.
I blame it on the combination of my Taurus sun (self-indulgence) and Virgo moon (restoring purity). Mmmmm.
Yet many of the n/naka fans I spoke to remarked on its absence of cheffy self-indulgence.
Even with Ms. Mikel's centering presence, though, this play, too, spins out, primarily into New Agey self-indulgence.
For years, she has championed the notion of the bath as luxury, as the ultimate, deserved self-indulgence.
The affair is what we expect from a man with his record of scandal and heedless self-indulgence.
Green straws marched in, along with whipped cream and caramel drizzle, as emblems of summer and self-indulgence.
Just when her self-indulgence becomes wearying, she cuts through it with a critique of her own self-absorption.
This kind of comedy can be pulled off, but it's tricky, and can easily fall victim to self-indulgence.
What sort of self-indulgence creates that level of cohesion, the genuine chemistry between Flea and Klinghoffer in particular?
Boomers gave us Donald Trump, the draft-dodging, tax-evading, wife-cheating poster child for '60s-bred self-indulgence.
And the implicit prescription for self-indulgence — that has got to play well with anyone visiting the French Quarter.
Writers are often told to write what they know, only to yield series that stumble over their self-indulgence.
Corporate self-indulgence has become an enormous problem for workers and for the long-term strength of the economy.
Nailing a guitar solo is tough; the genre lends itself to masturbatory self-indulgence and not toward carefully constructed melodies.
And this self-indulgence did no harm as long as he was just a senator from a very liberal state.
First, Carter called on Americans to stop worshiping "self-indulgence and consumption" and join a nationwide effort to conserve energy.
Before the rebooted Lara Croft series dove into self-indulgence and an increased delight in suffering, there was Tomb Raider.
Whether it's Halloween, Thanksgiving, or New Year's, each one is filled with self-indulgence — and the inevitable post-day-off slump.
" ― Maya Angelou "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
But her sparse, ironic style lacks the self-conscious self-indulgence of Fermor's prose, and is all the better for it.
But what happens even more, in my experience, is an intellectual sin whose effects can be just as bad: self-indulgence.
His recommendation for some cases is not unlike Lisa's: "Take some hours in your week purely for self-indulgence," he says.
Stepping back, Trump's behavior also highlights his self-indulgence while millions of Americans were in the path of a murderous hurricane.
Pregnant moms are tough enough on themselves, and hopefully I have inspired you to feel worthy of some treats of self-indulgence!
As for the baby's mother, well, there's nothing like a kidnapping to shake you out of your self-indulgence and self-pity.
But the culture they fostered — hermetically sealed worlds of hypochondria and self-indulgence — were by then an indelible part of modern Europe.
My husband and I were also raised to believe in hard work, honesty and thriftiness; we are genetically indisposed to self-indulgence.
For II to be brought back, though, smacks of self-indulgence too much in the year of the series' 30 th anniversary.
I'm sorry, Stranger Things, but you're gonna have to do a lot of maturing before you warrant anywhere near that much self-indulgence.
I enjoy the frank calm of both these women — Ms. Juodkaite even talks as she spins — until it tips, repeatedly, into self-indulgence.
Give into pleasure this week, Aries, as planet of love and self-indulgence, Venus, enters your sign, making you more attractive and indulgent.
On the connections that reverberate Sometimes I do have points where I try to check the self-indulgence that happens as a musician.
It's hard to think of an example in which a female director got away with -- or even attempted -- this level of self-indulgence.
That burst of inspiration, however, translates into self-indulgence, as this gothic thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence descends from intrigue into irritation and eventually ennui.
Once a year, rave crews from all over America congregate in dance music's homeland for a long weekend of spiritual renewal and self-indulgence.
Watching the spectacle is like being stuck in a hipster party that never ends or stops wallowing in its self-indulgence and self-importance.
There are great songs on it but it's too long and, sonically, there are a lot of missed opportunities and self-indulgence, in my opinion.
That first month will deliver tragedy and self-indulgence on a cinematic scale, and you'll feel entitled to whatever meltdowns you get a taste for.
It's a deadly combination of self-seriousness and self-indulgence, "shocking" art cinema that's more about the obnoxious petulance of its director than anything else.
Indeed, another aspect of how we value pleasures and whether we tolerate self-indulgence relates to the amount of effort it takes to achieve them.
I would expect this type of online self-indulgence from Will, Jada, Willow or even Trey, but I thought you had more integrity than this.
At times its self-indulgence borders on self-parody, but it captures the mood of the book while also doing something new with the material.
The photographs neither add to the aesthetic nor amplify the story; rather, they present a visual layer of self-indulgence to an otherwise nuanced account.
Whether this division of labor is a trick, a game or simply a narcissistic form of self-indulgence is unclear until the novel's satisfying end.
Americans are walling themselves off from those who may have differing political opinions or worldviews, and in turn, marinating in self-indulgence and self-reinforcement.
Mr. Trump's move looks like either an impetuous act of self-indulgence or, somewhat more probable, a calculated attempt to bury his domestic political troubles.
"Shrove Tuesday is about self-indulgence, Lent is about self-denial, and Ash Wednesday, in between the two, is about self-assessment," Dr. Brown added.
The "pie scene," which feels initially like an act of cinematic self-indulgence, becomes a crucial point of reference, like a constant in a complex equation.
It embodies some of Apple's better traits, like attention to detail and high-quality craftsmanship, but the overall impression is one of fastidiousness and self-indulgence.
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare," multi-hyphenate Audre Lorde once famously said.
Dylan's own attempt to turn the experience into a movie, 1978's "Renaldo & Clara," disappeared quickly from circulation after critics trashed it for its self-indulgence.
"It would be an act of self-indulgence to remove her as leader of the Conservative Party at this point," Mr. Gauke told the BBC. Mrs.
Tadi teaches that human and environmental cataclysms need never have happened but are nature's revenge, the direct results of uncaring arrogance, self-indulgence, greed and neglect.
Amy (Mila Kunis) is so tired of overachieving with her husband, children and career that she breaks down and leads pals in a binge of self-indulgence.
Recorded in an eleven-hour session, Grave's debut, Planetary Prince, is a manic explosion of virtuosity, but one that never strays into the realm of self-indulgence.
Afterward, they sat quietly for 35 minutes before being given as much of their favorite pizza as they wanted, which established a baseline measure of selfindulgence.
A woman's drinking is often understood less as the necessary antidote to her own staggering wisdom and more as self-indulgence or melodrama, hysteria, an unpardonable affliction.
Every aspect of the book — its length, its language, its microscopic attention to detail, its apparent self-indulgence, its mass of notes — is aligned with its overarching subjects.
Another symptom of the age of massive self-indulgence we're unfortunate enough to live in ... — Gmgwat I have traveled with my cat and I've traveled without my cat.
Mr. Elba's character, Max, is a former rugby star in London whose self-indulgence has led to estrangement from his wife, Emily (Gemma Arterton, in an underwritten role).
In many ways, the book is a mirror of Mr. Clinton's presidency: lack of discipline leading to squandered opportunities; high expectations, undermined by self-indulgence and scattered concentration.
The week had the same boozy self-indulgence, the same cheek-kissing emptiness of years' past, but it also felt like something was changing, hopefully for the better.
The sesh, looked at from afar, is a kind of post-ironic reselling of Binge Britain, a nihilistic renunciation of life itself, a self-indulgence of epic proportions.
" "We cannot be aware of Pompeo's ulterior motive behind his self-indulgence in reckless remarks; whether he is indeed unable to understand words properly or just pretending on purpose.
The soapy series will bait you into soaking up every minute of its ludicrous self-indulgence — delivering just enough real-world bite to leave you wanting that next episode.
But perhaps by sheer force of personality, it becomes a film about self-indulgence, rock star wealth, and separation from humanity that feels strikingly like a metaphorical Bowie biography.
"He was somebody who was impatient with some of the self-indulgence that had happened in the humanities as it drifted away from a connection to reality," he said.
Convenience, self-indulgence, and efficacy replace faith: it's easier to fire up your television than to go to church every week, or to kill a bull mechanically, rather than manually.
Instead, just a few years later, protection from violence became the narrow, defensive definition of feminist sexual politics, and the concept of pleasure became synonymous with narcissism and self-indulgence.
That Mr. Domingo, 78, prolonged his career for a decade by remaking himself into a baritone was, depending on your perspective, a remarkable achievement or an act of self-indulgence.
At times this can lead us into that territory of casual, quarter-life self-indulgence staked out by Hannah Horvath on "Girls," but the show is still observant and funny.
Although such writers are often saddled with accusations of narcissism and self-indulgence, what commonly gets overlooked is the tremendous vulnerability that inheres in exposing oneself to the world's scrutiny.
Rajneesh's earliest financial supporters were wealthy Indians in the area of Bombay, to whom he preached the doctrines of libertinism and self-indulgence that ran diametrically counter to Indian spiritual traditions.
Among many others, Paul Krugman, was strongly critical of how the crisis was handled and, in 2015, labelled the euro a "monstrous self-indulgence" while also advocating Greece's exit from it.
Contempt makes persuasion impossible — no one has ever been hated into agreement, after all — so its expression is either petty self-indulgence or cheap virtue signaling, neither of which wins converts.
Read more: T's Wellness Guide to New York Though the menu at Farmacy, a chic restaurant sandwiched between Notting Hill and Bayswater, is entirely plant-based, it allows for self-indulgence.
But even though self-indulgence is a trait I truly loathe in television, Mr. Robot's comes laced with something else that makes it not just manageable, but way more intriguing: self-awareness.
In other words, post-Rice, ALW has always been hampered by his own self-indulgence and the lack of a lyricist as good at writing lyrics as ALW is at writing music.
Both came to Manchester with reputations for truculence and self-indulgence, as well as vivid brilliance, and both, once there, proved to be gifted leaders, too, by deed rather than by word.
Lucey creates a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of weath, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence, and her book overflows with hilarious, disturbing detail.
In the past month, I have grieved for a child who has never existed, and then, remembering I have a friend who had a stillbirth, have felt ashamed of my self-indulgence.
" He continued: "In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.
Moral superiority in the absence of political power is useless, and self-reassurance in the inevitable upward motion of progress—that it may be interrupted or delayed, but rises inexorably—is self-indulgence.
But their self-indulgence, protected by timorous politicians, can only make it easier for the next killer to obtain a military-style weapon in what amounts to an open market for mass mayhem.
In fact, the biggest danger from Mr. Trump's terrible week is that it might encourage complacency and self-indulgence among voters who really, really wouldn't want to see him in the White House.
In the '60s, LBJ's escalation of the Vietnam War similarly derailed the possibility of a socialist-liberal alliance, driving many young idealists away from mainstream politics into political extremism or apolitical self-indulgence.
And with upcoming summer vacations begging for a new bathing suit (and sunglasses, and shorts, and minidresses...), we'll keep telling ourselves self-indulgence isn't as bad when you're paying less than full price.
"Johnny and I wanted to work with the idea that even when the future of a person seems bleak and uncertain, they can still choose to pursue pleasure and self-indulgence," he says.
Books of The Times The philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum wants Americans to get in touch with their feelings; not in a fit of self-indulgence but as a righteous act of civic duty.
BEVERLY TAN MURRAY, Miami Despite his admirable, almost superhuman restraint, I will sadly remember President Obama's tragic moment of self-indulgence, the night he skewered Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Small as they were, Mr. Assange's living quarters at the embassy, close to the lavish self-indulgence of Harrods, the famous department store, did not cramp his desire to remain in the limelight.
The duo delighted in their shared enthusiasm for Justin Bieber and Instagram—which has become an artistic medium for Grotjahn—and delved into questions of exhibitionism' rule-breaking' and self-indulgence in art.
Much of that surely has to do with director David Lynch's filmmaking style, which has reinforced his reputation as an auteur but risked slipping into self-indulgence at best, and self-parody at worst.
The metal wall reliefs also seem to usher in a period of self-indulgence and arbitrariness in stark contrast with the economy of means and the clarity of purpose of the previous Minimalist period.
But when 37,000 attendees at Villa Park are compelled to pay tribute to the utterly vague category of 'fans who died in the past 12 months', accusations of self-indulgence start to feel justified.
But "Fear in Porcelain," featuring droning, electronic music by the sound artists Steve Roden and Russell Burton, is tainted by a sluggishness and a self-indulgence that make its nudity feel like a stunt.
" The duo also offered their take, collectively explaining: "We're long time Mindless Self Indulgence fans and knew that Jimmy Urine would be able to deconstruct, reconstruct and totally repurpose the track in a fun way.
Also starring Christina Applegate, the film follows three overstressed moms who abandon their daily responsibilities and go on a binge of self-indulgence, only to find themselves going head-to-head with the PTA president.
According to Deadline, the film follows three overstressed moms who abandon their daily responsibilities and go on a binge of self-indulgence, but only to find themselves going head-to-head with the PTA president.
While I greatly enjoy Schumer's sketch comedy when pals hurl it to me in YouTube links, I must admit that Burnett's used to be appointment television, when that regal hour of self-indulgence still existed.
The reference to the reviewer's own forthcoming novel and her quotations with little context of "phrases that drove me crazy with jealousy" as well as the scarcity of information about Wilson are pure self-indulgence.
Mr. Ashe would surely be gratified that to date, this high road has led to more protest, not less, confirming his belief that real change comes from rational advocacy and hard work, not emotional self-indulgence.
Nina's quest to get her kids to feel poetry "from the inside" does now and then smack of didacticism and self-indulgence, but there's no doubting Goodman's ability to make her readers feel things that way.
Sure, we've already covered that the Golden Globes are a sham; a combination of desperation and corruption that gets wrapped up into one nonsensical display of self-indulgence — but sometimes things happen that can still surprise you.
The bigger problem was self-indulgence, though Mr. Kosoko, whose mantra is "more is more" — he nimbly layers props, costumes and text — showed an excerpt from "Séancers," a tantalizing glimpse into disenfranchisement by way of an exorcism.
The very thing you're pointing out is what made Rob and I reluctant to do the whole thing in the first place: that potential misfire of the whole thing, which is a huge exercise of self-indulgence.
" The ultimate example of self-expression — or self-indulgence, some might say — during this Olympic season may have come when Adam Rippon of Los Angeles recorded and performed to his own vocals of the Rihanna song "Diamonds.
Covering a period from 1976 to 1990, "River Under the Road" contains cultural scene-setting, reminiscent of Updike's Rabbit novels, that captures the social and political mood of "me-decade" self-indulgence morphing into Reagan-era conservatism.
If the president does not want the House to go Democratic, thus dramatically increasing the risk of impeachment, then he might consider speaking and tweeting to the 60 percent of the people who find his self-indulgence unappealing.
A sequel that revisits the events of its predecessor so directly and so frequently sounds like a frantic exercise in self-indulgence, which was how Back to the Future Part II was received in some corners back in 1989.
The 2012 Emmys monologue Kimmel drew lots of laughs during his short and sweet opening routine at the 2012 awards, taking jabs at chronically snubbed Jon Hamm, then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Hollywood's self-indulgence as a whole.
Also starring Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate, Kunis' new movie follows three overstressed moms who abandon their daily responsibilities and go on a binge of self-indulgence, only to find themselves going head-to-head with the PTA president.
There's the showmanship that they deride as self-indulgence; there are the absurd lyrics, all packed with Californiaisms, that are cast off as cringeworthy; there are the air-kicking, pogo-jumping kinetics that are sneered at and deemed needless.
And I feel like self care has somehow become synonymous with self indulgence or...self investment, or people who have time to indulge in self care practices are somehow, you know, they have an excess of time and money.
Keeping up with the Joneses has become Keeping up with the Kardashians, and the American Dream has morphed from an attainable goal, the result of hard work, to a fantasy way of life characterized by self-indulgence, celebrity, and narcissism.
The movie itself is a paean to self-indulgence -- one he cowrote with his then-girlfriend, Oja Kodar, who also stars (if you can call it that, given the limited dialogue) playing a character in the movie within the movie.
Wolfe came up with "radical chic" to brand pretentious liberals, the "me decade" to sum up the self-indulgence of the 19303s and the "right stuff" to quantify intangible characteristics of the first U.S. astronauts and their test pilot predecessors.
In the past, Ms. Hopkins has had a tendency to veer into self-indulgence and cutesiness, but "Articles of Faith," which is having its premiere at the Kitchen as part of the Lumberyard in the City festival, avoids these twin perils.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May, who is not known for her self-indulgence, has revealed she will be giving up crisps in the run-up to Easter — a period called Lent when many Christians fast or give up luxuries.
If to these actual losses are added the profits that might have been made through the proper reinvestment of these funds if such reinvestment had been made when the mistake was first realized, the cost of self-indulgence becomes truly tremendous.
He then called those same citizens falling into despair to recognize their own selfishness before unifying to solve the energy crisis, in part by embracing the value of sacrifice over the self-indulgence that Carter associated with America's materialistic, consumer culture.
"At present, the United States completely overestimates its ability to control the global supply chain and is due to slap itself in the face when it sobers up from its happy, ignorant self-indulgence," said the commentary published under the pseudonym Wuyuehe.
Their epic, immersive sculptural installation takes the form of a pink-and-white frosted, crystal-encrusted, sharp-toothed temple of decadence, and serves as the sugar-coated setting for a monthlong festival of creative multi-platform self-indulgence they're calling Breaking Bread.
But what remained constant was Van Noten's discipline, his aversion to self-indulgence, to folly, his adherence to a rigor that announces itself in his designs and in his conduct: a sense of discipline that, paradoxically, has earned him extraordinary artistic freedom.
In previews at Manhattan Theater Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theater, the play pits self-indulgence against self-sacrifice and asks: If you've fouled up the world, do you hand it down to your children that way or try to set it right?
It's a statement of the core philosophy of a group of Conservative anarchists who've lost sight of the basic principles of Conservatism—respect for institutions as embodiments of the spirit of compromise and constraints of emotional self-indulgence—in pursuit of their ideologically charged vision.
"We cannot be aware of Pompeo's ulterior motive behind his self-indulgence in reckless remarks; whether he is indeed unable to understand words properly or just pretending on purpose," Kwon Jong Gun, a high-ranking North Korean official said, according to state news agency KCNA.
While this section veers toward self-indulgence — it's a little like watching kids build a blanket fort — Ms. Rosenblit's imagination surfaces as Ms. Bowen climbs into one fold and then another until she is completely concealed and reimagined as a strange yet cute fuchsia monster.
The sound harks back to the late 1960s and early 1970s era of singer-songwriters, particularly those who were clustered around Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles and living a hippie dream of self-expression and self-indulgence, amid vintage guitars and well-equipped studio hideaways.
My self-indulgence was trying to do that with KAZAKHS and DANZA, the former for the crazy consonant mash-up and the latter as a hat tip since my wife has very fond memories of working with him in her former career in film production.
Los Angeles-based artist and bandleader of electronic rock veterans Mindless Self Indulgence, Jimmy Urine, has remixed Australian/Iranian duo VOWWS' single "Holy Youth" off their 2015 debut LP. The Great Sun featured appearances from synth pop pioneer Gary Numan as well as Swans' percussionist Thor Harris.
But the future we're heading toward will be neither Skynet nor Orwellian Big Brother: It is much more likely to look like the hedonic society portrayed in a Brave New World, where technologies maintain the status quote through a regime of universal happiness and pervasive self-indulgence.
"I felt and feel to this day that I have been spared not to waste my life on self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement but to spread a moral message by showing, using examples from history, how evil ideas lead to evil consequences," Professor Pipes wrote in a memoir.
Unlike previous generations who may have either looked at self-investment as self-indulgence or who simply didn't have the resources or technology available to make supplementary investments in themselves, today's badass millennial women are unapologetic about their desire to invest in their own success and well-being.
The CW's soapy teen drama owes a lot to Twin Peaks, but while the Showtime revival is drowning in self-indulgence, this deliciously twisted take on Archie, Betty and Veronica offers a tightly-plotted murder mystery while still making time for high school hijinx and Dynasty-esque family feuding.
It was complete self-indulgence from director Yu Sukuzi, the Sega pioneer behind arcade classics like Hang-On, Space Harrier, and Virtua Fighter—if Out Run was his "My Generation," Shenmue III is setting itself up to be his version of Pete Townsend's unfinished sci-fi epic Lifehouse.
People care about who James Franco sleeps with because he so blatantly cares; they feel they should be privy to his sexuality, not for the sake of gossipy titillation, but to contextualize a frankly continuously confusing body of work that seems to exist solely for the purpose of self-indulgence.
Though Suspiria was bred from a generation of Italian Giallo films (read: slick neo-noir thrillers), it essentially out-Giallo'd itself into something new: a horror movie whose shameless self-indulgence and extravagant design heightened the film's portrayal of the all-encompassing black magic at the center of its plot.
Having such certainty in the boundless fascination of your own inner depths is a quality that can lead to navel-gazing or self-indulgence, but that's not at all the case in The Tale, where Jennifer's insistence on self-exploration and on her place at the heart of the film is essential.
"If there is no community," then "there is nothing to challenge, nothing to fuel the dynamism" required for a golden age, and if there is nothing but transgression and dissent, there is nothing to give acts of transgression the "purpose, substance and meaning" that make them something more than just puerile self-indulgence.
It also turns away from its best version of itself: Gone is the elaborate walking sim and survival game that easily occupies 20-30 hours of Death Stranding's over-blown length, and in its place comes at last, the self-indulgence that one expects from a Kojima game but without the audacious, elaborate proceduralism.
Instead of keeping other investors at an arms length to savor the best deals in the name of self indulgence, the investors that are a part of the VC 3.0 group regularly share notes on startups, split up events like demo days and collaboratively hunt to fill open roles at each others portfolio companies.
IN EARLIER primary contests and in more sheltered places, from sleepy midwestern college towns to hipster neighbourhoods in New York, a note of self-indulgence could be heard as Democrats weighed whether to follow their heads, and choose the experienced Hillary Clinton, or their hearts, and back the rumpled advocate of revolution, Bernie Sanders.
But even once the song was over, it didn't take long before Colbert ditched the more straight-up Emmy jokes about Hollywood's self-indulgence ("I didn't know you could applaud while patting yourself on the back at the same time") to return to the man of his every late-night hour: President Donald Trump.
Aim for two or three really solid songs, and don't bother releasing anything until you have enough tracks to make up an EP. The EP is the perfect format for what you are trying to do—substantial enough to feel like a statement loaded with identity, without overwhelming your listeners with the gross self-indulgence of a debut album.
He has also recently retweeted a Wall Street Journal editorial that knocked Trump's "self-indulgence" in the Daniels matter, passed on a story about how multiple lawyers have turned down the President's request to join his legal team and echoed a professor who threw cold water on Trump's idea that trade wars are easy to win.
If you're grossed out by the utter charmlessness and moral squalor of a year's worth of debased political self-indulgence, a perfect antidote is "The Crown," Netflix's compulsively watchable dramatization of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, served up on a silver platter by dramatist Peter Morgan ("The Queen") and the director and producer Stephen Daldry ("The Audience").
But Underkuffler has a more radical view: She believes that political corruption is so pernicious—so "corrosive, distorting, and decomposing" a force, so characterized by "self-involvement, self-indulgence, and the loosening and discarding of the restraints of social bonds"—that it deserves to be called by the name evil, and that whoever is deeply engaged in it is indeed captured by evil.
This extravagant self-indulgence by a fabulously rich family is nothing like the example your article cites of Bess Truman and her frequent visits to her home in Independence, Mo. REBA SHIMANSKY New York To the Editor: Eleanor Roosevelt, who the article said was "reported to have initially struggled with the role," deserves pride of place among reluctant first ladies.
To the Editor: Re "Democrats Split on How Far Left to Nudge Nation" (front page, June 27): As I watch these current and future debates, for me there's no longer room for any more self-indulgence in the luxury of who is "closest to me on the issues," as so many of us allowed ourselves in 2016 in the debates between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
The suggestion that leisure is crucial calls to mind the concept of "self-care," which has in recent years transcended its niche popularity among Tumblr users — who are fond of a 1988 quote by the black lesbian writer Audre Lorde: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare" — to ride into the mainstream on this rationale.
He focused more on detailing, and explaining, shifting trends in American life: the "generation gap" of the 1960s, the rise of the women's movement in the 1970s, the neoconservatism of many young people in the 21963s, the emergence of a "me first" self-indulgence in the 21960s, and in recent years a widespread feeling that Americans have no voice in the decisions that affect their lives.
In "Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas," she does even more of what she does best, creating a rollicking snow globe version of an almost unimaginable world of wealth, crackpot notions of self-improvement and high-flying self-indulgence (like now; you know who you are, Goop) woven around an often passionate commitment to, deep admiration for and wide-ranging pursuit of the fine and literary arts (less like now).
But then again, their current live show is a cringe-worthy mess of kick jumps and self-indulgence, Flea performed The Star Spangled Banner as a bass solo, TWICE, and it sounded like farts, this artwork happened, and, seriously, what the hell does "Can't stop the spirits when they need you / Mop tops are happy when they feed you / J. Butterfly is in the treetop / Birds that blow the meaning into bebop" mean anyway!?

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