It's true that Green's books are about teenagers, that they're often sad, and that they can be self-indulgent — but they're self-indulgent in their sadness in the way that teenagers are self-indulgent about their own adolescent angst: innocently, as if they are unaware there could be another way to feel.
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But I like self indulgent and bloated rock 'n' roll.
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" And writing plays, which Dery convincingly labels "self-indulgent juvenilia.
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It's very self indulgent, I make it for myself really.
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In Ocean's 8, Hathaway's character is vain, self-indulgent, and narcissistic.
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At best, it can seem cute or silly or self-indulgent.
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What a load of "humble" self indulgent wankery from Tom Hiddleston.
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Here was the new American self — rational, moral, not self-indulgent.
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"This is self-indulgent," Gold said at one point on Friday.
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And it's not because they're lazy or unmotivated or self-indulgent.
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This was not a narcissistic personality, nor a self-indulgent one.
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An invented mythology can become self-indulgent in less generous hands.
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So Mr Vázquez's pre-owned business jet looked self-indulgent by comparison.
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Tyler Cowen, an economist, believes that this ideal is self-indulgent nonsense.
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It's more self indulgent than it is a ploy for gender equality.
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From an American point of view, that looked like self-indulgent posturing.
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The father's trite, self-indulgent prose jars with the son's laconic style.
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Self indulgent nonsense that ten people find funny, my favourite thing ever.
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If anything, so far being a mother feels quite delightfully self-indulgent.
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The episode should seem self-indulgent, but, miraculously, the risk pays off.
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The glib, flashy and self-indulgent musical results were not much fun.
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They worry it will lead to self-indulgent behavior and undermine motivation.
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I just worry that this story has become a little self-indulgent.
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This problem isn't just some arcane or self-indulgent exercise for computer geeks.
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With age comes more responsibilities, and many people view friendships as self-indulgent.
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There's surely a point at or after which more education becomes self-indulgent.
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That is not a call for self-indulgent chest-thumping or blind confrontation.
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Even when the material is not shocking, the treatment is often self-indulgent.
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Definitely. Does David Farrier seem self-indulgent and convinced of his documentary's overwhelming importance?
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That's not to say Dead Magic, her fourth full-length, is overly self-indulgent.
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And the book is like that path: big, bold, beautiful, and unapologetically self-indulgent.
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There are no shallow guarantees in it, no self-indulgent pronouncements of personal power.
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Few men are as self-assured, self-indulgent, and self-promoting as Scott Disick.
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Not that the show is especially generous to her self-indulgent, solipsistic companions, either.
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I think it's really hard to pull those off without them being self-indulgent.
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Inheritors of fortunes, especially women, are portrayed as glamorous, but also as self-indulgent.
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Even when the winners are a surprise, awards shows are long and self-indulgent.
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They aren't actually businesses, they are self-indulgent playthings that do nothing for no one.
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That is to say, the pile-on of wrap-ups was a bit self-indulgent.
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" The novel, she said, was "uproarious and mind-boggling, but also arbitrary and self-indulgent.
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VICE: Your character in Lemon personifies that Hollywood stereotype of the pompous self-indulgent actor.
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We all aspire to be as self-indulgent as Billy Porter at the Met Gala.
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Later, it clashes with Jupiter in Virgo at 12:15 PM, triggering self-indulgent behavior.
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The scorn heaped on Melania for her footwear focused on its self-indulgent, flashy impracticality.
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With its constant starts and stops, "Boys in Trouble" was more self-indulgent than transformative.
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It's a self-indulgent thought, but it builds a bridge to my parents in my mind.
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The problem is, I'm not alone in my adoration for a self-indulgent, Sunday face mask.
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I'll try anything that's not shrill or self-indulgent, although these days that excludes a lot.
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Ready Player One is a self-indulgent but celebratory novel about the pop culture Cline loves.
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As humans we can all be self-indulgent—it's one of the pleasures of being alive.
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If and when we do, the work is all too often dismissed as self-indulgent and
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If all of this makes these records sound mindlessly self-indulgent, well, yeah, they are. Obviously.
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"You start to realize that the results of experimentation aren't just self-indulgent fuckery," she says.
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Most self-indulgent social justice flag-stompers have no knowledge, or little apparent interest, in this.
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I've seen a few pages of his book, and it's a piece of self-indulgent drivel.
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That sounds self-indulgent, but Knausgaard possesses an uncanny magic for rendering mundane personal observations compelling.
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Stretching out to two and a half hours, Midsommar can be needlessly self-indulgent at times.
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With Tesla seeming to need all the attention it could possibly get, these tangents appear self-indulgent.
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This inventiveness is perhaps why BoJack's eulogy doesn't feel self-indulgent or labored in the new season.
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And, while we are talking about waste, let's have a little self-indulgent fun with this waste.
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He has created a narrative of grief and acceptance that is compulsively readable and never self-indulgent.
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Making an album, I feel like is the most self-indulgent time you can think of really.
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And top 22 lists are the place where critics ought feel the most self-indulgent and honest.
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The work itself, if you catch it at the wrong moment, can seem thin and self indulgent.
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He is so tiresome, so self-indulgent, so full to bursting with nonstop me-me-me-ism.
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And on Saturday, Trump's self-indulgent speech tarnished his roll out of his vice presidential nominee, Indiana Gov.
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A lot of the lyrics remind me of the self-indulgent chats you have when you're really fucked.
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But she cautioned anyone going in this direction because, she said, it can be a bit self-indulgent.
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Having encountered the self-indulgent Ginger, grand Saba, and tiny Bebe, I finally, finally nod off to sleep.
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But if that sounds even more airily arty and self-indulgent, a no-nonsense marketing professional might disagree.
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For those living nearby, its self-indulgent elegance makes all the accompanying tsoris that much harder to take.
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I felt I didn't want to be self-indulgent and have therapy—I pretended I was just fine.
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What ensues is "Rosemary's Baby amped up into a fugue state of self-indulgent solipsism," EW's Chris Nashawaty writes.
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For literary women, such as Marguerite Duras and Jean Rhys, drinking was seen as weak, melodramatic or self-indulgent.
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They replace self-indulgent musings with helpful tips, lovely pictures and great links to the travel recordings of others.
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At other times, Stiller eases up on the pace in service of overstretched, self-indulgent business with his character.
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In recent years, the event itself has come under sharp criticism for being self-indulgent and rife with contradiction.
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That sounds crazy self-indulgent, but it was honestly just because I wrote the worst songs for so long!
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It can feel self-indulgent to prioritize your mental health when there are people who are sick and dying.
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Depressive as fuck but nothing like self-indulgent, she tries to be not just honest but nice about it.
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They were royal and hip, a Swinging Sixties couple with tedious official duties and boozy, self-indulgent private lives.
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Some couldn't reconcile the so-called "attractiveness gap" between the two actors; others found the episode entirely self-indulgent.
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The Moon in Sagittarius squares off with Venus at 11:35 AM, finding people in a self-indulgent mood.
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That's not to say English Tapas is a self-indulgent record about being clean and healthy, because it's not.
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" 'rabid' in Los Angeles had a similar take on the book's ratio of pleasures to challenges: "Is it self-indulgent?
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Unqualified defences of globalisation by Western leaders feel as archaic as the self-indulgent guitar solos of hair metal past.
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Over the weekend, one teen ventured to invent a brand-new format of self-indulgent photo-sharing on social media.
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As it turns out, however, "love languages" in the traditional sense are not self-indulgent excuses for our romantic shortcomings.
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Spamming your friends with an endless feed of self-indulgent answers is a one-way ticket to unfollowland for me.
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With her petty musings and self-indulgent soliloquies, the hilarious vixen gone viral gained a legion of followers almost instantly.
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But rather, a self-indulgent girl in far too deep, hoping to be seen as some unintelligible version of herself.
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Some consider Ziltoid a staple of Townsend's catalogue while others view it as a self-indulgent, immature pile of wank.
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At this moment, the Sky Digital music is self-indulgent nonsense and, like Jay Kay, I'll make it a hit.
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His self-indulgent lament: What could be more generous than spending everything on other people and being left with nothing?
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Only by learning to master her perceived self-indulgent tendencies, Raniere implied, could Edmondson truly become empowered as a woman.
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So even the less-public work of talking through emotions, needs and relationships, which can seem self-indulgent, is meaningful.
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The president lauded Mr. McConnell as a "rock-ribbed Kentucky leader" and "a tough cookie" before a self-indulgent addendum.
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Your planetary ruler Venus moves into your sign, Libra, on Saturday, putting you in your beautiful and self-indulgent element.
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All of which would be self-indulgent if it weren't for the fact that the episode is non-stop funny.
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There were whispers that it might be a self-indulgent mess, that Kojima had gone entirely off the deep end.
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It's tempting to blame self-indulgent tools like social media and smartphones for this so-called epidemic, and many do.
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George Church, for example, defines synthetic biology in opposition to something "self-indulgent": Synthetic biology is mostly about developing and applying basic engineering principles—the practical matters that help transform something academic, ivory-towerish, pure, and sometimes self-indulgent or abstract into something that has an impact on society and possibly even transforms it.
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To some reviewers, it was self-indulgent of her to keep making films about the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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The video gets a little self-indulgent, but hey—we are talking about a stunt-sized piece of expensive jewelry here.
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Gorillaz were never supposed to be more than Damon Albarn and illustrator Jamie Hewlett's weird, self-indulgent, heroin fuelled side project.
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And with lyrics are so self-indulgent, it's hard to imagine that Imagine Dragons makes music for anyone but themselves nowadays.
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And she's mostly here to do good, not evil, even if her brand of witchcraft ends up being largely self-indulgent.
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K. JOHNSON: It was a self-indulgent move by Colin Kaepernick and he&aposs hurting the league and people understand that.
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" The result, he said, was "a really unfiltered script, something that was perfectly self-indulgent and pushed various ideas of comedy.
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Yes, of course, there are some influencers who are self-indulgent, vacuous, lack integrity, and are in it for the freebies.
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No weird self-indulgent intro… Hook at the top in the intro, maybe even start with the chorus, under three minutes.
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"For me, the constant search for perfection and self-actualization that you have as a dancer became self-indulgent," he said.
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Millennials, while also tagged 'selfie-obsessed', 'entitled' and 'self-indulgent', are significantly more engaged with sustainability and social justice than previous generations.
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"It's important that I tell the story of my life but without tipping over into self-indulgent rock star neurosis," he explains.
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Indigenous regalia requires patience and humility — but for self-indulgent narcissists like the men at WorldPride, it is hard to expect humility.
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He pointed out the inconsistencies in the Black Lives Matter movement and the fact that these guys really was more self-indulgent.
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There's something self-indulgent about converting your own day-to-day experience into art, but Sam is a very under-indulged character.
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Tim Burton's take on Dumbo wasn't quite as exhausting as his two Alice in Wonderland projects, but it was similarly self-indulgent.
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The confidence with which Brandon Flowers pulls off an otherwise enormously self-indulgent piece of short cinema deserves several medals for bravery.
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Their ability to find more economical deals becomes a way to distinguish themselves from the presumed decadent and self-indulgent upper classes.
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But it was not until 2013 that United decided that Twitter was not just — or not only, anyway — a self-indulgent fad.
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Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist OK, this is a bit self-indulgent, aimed at a very narrow audience, and maybe also whiny too.
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It's tempting to watch celebrities who promote their favored causes with self-indulgent speeches and conclude that they're uniquely guilty of grandstanding.
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Although these choices may perhaps be viewed by some as slightly self-indulgent, the names are completely in accordance with IUPAC rules.
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Feirstein was writing a column for the college paper, using it to lampoon the school's rich kids and their self-indulgent antics.
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For this record, I just want to be as pure and sincere about what the record is—it's a self-indulgent exploration.
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It's self-indulgent and repetitive, and it makes widely diverse characters from around the world all feel like identically drawn Ernest Cline clones.
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White House officials talk freely about putting "fences" around President Trump and his decision-making to protect him from his self-indulgent instincts.
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In some cases, the commitment to minimalist form is overly self-indulgent, giving equal emphasis every heady passage, which flattens the overall effect.
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The mess will be left to Rush Limbaugh, Hannity and the others who so delighted in Trump's self-indulgent ways, to clean up.
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It is the tragedy of addiction and, in some cases, stupidity in the self-indulgent use of illegal drugs and prescription pain-killers.
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The spin-offs and side games have only become more integral to the main plot and more self-indulgent in their subject matter.
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To believe in cosmic order in Los Angeles can feel absurd, self-indulgent, the directive of someone just singing with their eyes closed.
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I liked the idea of getting out of my own head, doing something less self indulgent than writing songs and actually helping people.
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"What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans," he said in an interview with The Guardian in 2000.
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It's as if he were offering the addled, distracted, and self-indulgent citizens a kind of relief from democracy's endless choices and insecurities.
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For decades, when not effervescing over royal weddings and births, the tabloids have castigated the royals as lazy, frumpy, dissipated or self-indulgent.
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And it feels rather self-indulgent to put that kind of effort toward something that in the long run might never go anywhere.
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Instead, Trump shows every sign of being the kind of disrespectful, self-indulgent, anarchistic and hedonistic boomer that made an entire generation look bad.
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With that in mind, Endgame doesn't just play as a wild tangle of interacting plotlines and self-indulgent personal rabbit holes for these characters.
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The ruling class became hoggishly self-indulgent: Mr Heffer lacerates Edward VII for his habit of sponging off his friends and debauching their wives.
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When you think of concept cars, the inevitable images that come to mind are of exaggerated designs, impractical proportions, and profoundly self-indulgent experiences.
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Those four minutes were a movie; a beautifully crafted, adrenaline-filled, self-indulgent tribute to the raw speed and power of flying heavy metal.
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It's a personal diary of the movies Cavolo likes, with self-indulgent descriptions of his relationships beside drawings he did based on the movies.
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Normally, Valentine's Day would be a prime time to act like a self-indulgent douchebag, but lately my heart's just not been into it.
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Jonas is often vapid and self-indulgent, and players are tasked with enduring her dialogue while attempting to outrun paparazzi in a side mission.
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While the self-indulgent "social justice" warriors and flag-stompers run wild, more than a dozen of the Democratic presidential candidates promised the Rev.
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Chrysler finds it self-indulgent and wonders whether anyone less famous than Lepage would have gotten so much funding for such a personal project.
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As the 70s descended into self-indulgent chaos, Allman fell into the typical rockstar extracurriculars: drugs, booze, sex, album covers that looked like this.
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If you liked Richard Feynman's autobiographical "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" but thought it was rather self-indulgent, this book will prompt similar reactions.
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" Toby Young wrote -- without a hint of irony, considering his own famously self-indulgent memoir -- that: "Wurtzel's overweening self-regard oozes from every sentence.
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She herself is never sure that she isn't being self-indulgent, and her consternation about that fact invites deep sympathy with her underlying pain.
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Viewers took to Twitter to criticize Madonna and MTV for the speech, saying it was self-indulgent and did not focus enough on Franklin.
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Photo: APTech giants Elon Musk and Mark Zuckeberg have been engaged in a very public, somewhat silly and self-indulgent battle over artificial intelligence lately.
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With advancements in birth control, sex can be solely for pleasure, but pleasure itself can feel too self-indulgent to regularly incorporate into daily life.
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While splurging on a massage might feel self-indulgent, there are some legit physical and mental health benefits that may make it easier to justify.
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Loaded is what happens when the creators behind one of those hit apps are self-indulgent, bad with money, and prone to petty, impulsive behavior.
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Women's emotions, particularly their rage, are often deemed overblown or self-indulgent, and marginalized people are frequently told that they are exaggerating for perverse effect.
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McCain sabotaged Obamacare repeal in a self-indulgent and theatrical way, but he did ultimately take a stand against both the president and Mitch McConnell.
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Since this response implies self-indulgent shamelessness in enjoying being manipulated, it is not only objectionable on aesthetic grounds, but on moral ones as well.
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Sure, it's a self-indulgent star turn, but Lawrence so delights in Rosalyn's no-fucks-given attitude that we laugh along with the actress's moxie.
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He was a self-indulgent hedonist of the highest order, which is to say a formally rigorous artist for whom line and color meant everything.
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We're taught that talking about our dreams is juvenile, self-indulgent, and that we should shake off their traces and get on with our day.
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First, Commodus was indeed a real person — cruel and slipping into insanity, self-indulgent and despised, impetuous and thinking he was greater than he was.
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Especially if people had previously been laughing and are now telling you, through not responding verbally in any way, that your joke was self-indulgent.
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Spiritual retreats were less self-indulgent and, when under the rubric of religious communities (as many of the 19th and 20th centuries were), actively salutary.
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It is true that a little retribution for the arrogant, self-indulgent and myopic leadership of FAANG in their treatment of conservatives might be enjoyable.
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They aren't self-indulgent in the same way, because they can't be: The empires they oversee are too vast, and the sales figures too public.
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Especially if people had previously been laughing and are now telling you, through not responding verbally in any way, that your joke was self-indulgent.
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But it was also sort of wonderfully self-indulgent in the way that only a tarot card reading immediately followed by a luxe manicure could be.
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But between planning for holiday festivities and doing your last-minute gift shopping, there's little time for a self-indulgent Sephora scroll or a YouTube marathon.
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Jonas's warm feelings of beneficence and his self-indulgent dreams of being a "white saviour"—the unpalatable nature of which he fully comprehends—are soon jeopardised.
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The reason her Bridesmaids character is so funny and likable is because she keeps pulling Kristen Wiig out of her self-indulgent skinny-white-girl doldrums.
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We're the cohort everyone skips over — the all-but-invisible slice of 224 million fortysomethings, jammed in between the self-satisfied boomers and self-indulgent millennials.
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They were accused of abducting and abusing children as part of their self-indulgent effort to distort the social order for their benefit, thus corrupting them.
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Overindulgence can take many material forms, like over-eating or over-drinking, but it's possible to be immaterially self indulgent, too—avoid being overzealous this week.
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Few things, of course, are duller than self-indulgent put-downs; but informed and spirited dismissals are another matter, and they remain in too-short supply.
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There was the "selfish-y," a self-indulgent selfie he introduced on "Conan" in which the photographer blocks the other person in the picture from view.
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But he takes so much Adderall that he doesn't sleep for six straight days, and all of these sequences are over-long and self-indulgent as hell.
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As for the White House and the President, they get an F. The President is undisciplined and self-indulgent and is connecting with only his hardcore base.
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"Although these choices may perhaps be viewed by some as slightly self-indulgent, the names are completely in accordance with IUPAC rules," a statement from Reedijk said.
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I still think that your art can be semi-self-indulgent in that it's centered around personal experienced and it's highly specific, but there's relatability in specificity.
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In this story, the king was cruel and self-indulgent, as tyrants more often tend to be, and his second in command was a man named Haman.
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"It's a padded, often self-indulgent volume that undermines her stated belief that 'books, once they are written, have no need of their authors,' " our critic writes.
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The result is strange in the ways we should want movies to be strange—too personal to be self-indulgent and too funny to be self-important.
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They know how to make the most of a raiseA raise or promotion is always reason to celebrate with a nice dinner or a self-indulgent gift.
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There's understanding that if you say everything that comes to your mind, at every moment, in the name of being honest, is often self-indulgent and hurtful.
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But part of the tradeoff that comes with being a responsible adult is recognizing that sacrificing some self-indulgent fun can open the door to more joy.
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And when I do take a day to be lazy and self-indulgent, I usually find my productivity picks up when I get back to my desk.
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Purchasing expensive products that are environmentally-friendly in some way can help us compensate for the guilt we feel about our self-indulgent spending, Dr. Johnson explains.
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House Democrats risk looking self-indulgent as, rather than getting on with fixing infrastructure or health care, they obsess over the minutiae of internal White House communications.
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Jamie, 27: It's mostly out of a self-indulgent sense of curiosity, but I'd love to download Tinder to find out if white men are attracted to me.
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In times past, the college student who tells you of his pain for some imagined slight would have been scolded and mocked for his self-indulgent, bruised feelings.
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So it's only understandable that cheesemakers and sellers express their love for it through self-indulgent verbal journeys that, midway through, make you forget you're not reading porn.
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Song teasers and trailers, while hypothetically a solid way to get people excited for new music, have jumped the shark from exciting into annoying, self-indulgent, and bad.
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The Times may have labeled Beautiful Losers self-indulgent, but Deitch pointed out that Rose performed a service by preserving a scene from New York City's recent past.
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But that's not because, as with everyone from Elvis to Taylor Swift, its subject matter comes across as self-indulgent and unrelatable, but rather because it's so relatable.
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But I inevitably beat myself up about it, feeling guilty about letting my grief subside then arguing with myself for being masochistic or self-indulgent in my sadness.
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Mired in a funk for more than half a century, the angst-ridden 'everyteen' is now regarded by the cool kids as being a bit — well, self-indulgent.
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This stylistic approach to personal narratives may be more obvious, but both directors engage with their subject matter in a way that does not feel self-indulgent or overwrought.
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Here in Vancouver, the old complaints — of self-indulgent elitism, of a technophiliac mindset, of feel-good charitable sops by billionaires — have receded to the level of background hum.
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The clarity struck me then: the curatorial choice of bringing artists together who ranged from bubblegum garage rock to Scandinavian death industrial was unapologetically self-indulgent and deliberately confrontational.
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If you're like the old me, you might be rolling your eyes, thinking resolutions are a waste of time, only for self-indulgent woo-woos who read The Secret.
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If a film with this exact structure and pacing (and 181-minute run time) was made with original characters, critics would eviscerate it as self-indulgent, sloppy, and incoherent.
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His later, self-produced comedies fail because they're self-indulgent and lazy to the point where we're watching a wealthy man who's bought into the cynicism of his brand.
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The way I see the world — this is probably so pretentious and self-indulgent — I don't see why people aren't reacting the way my character reacts to bad news.
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The Internet's favorite Powerball player took another swing at the jackpot, but instead of "a bunch of hookers and cocaine" ... he's hoping to buy something much less self-indulgent.
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A real man is the type of person that will protect those more vulnerable than he is in times of harm, and not be self centered or self indulgent.
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But if you enjoyed watching this excruciating, messy, self-indulgent paean to the dubious notion of the necessity of destruction for the sake of male creativity, you're a monster.
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He avoids being self-indulgent about it — he doesn't find his own despair very interesting — but there's a sense of dislocation and loss shaping his art and his life.
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Bank, the viceroy, the opera's tormented hero, learns that Melinda, his beloved wife, has been pursued by the queen's self-indulgent younger brother Otto, an overture Gertrud has encouraged.
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They are self-indulgent and self-lionizing prophets of doom who use formulations like "the Flight 93 election" — who speak of every problem as if it were the apocalypse.
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"It's already a self-indulgent experience that is already supposed to be all about you, so you don't necessarily think you need to take time for yourself," she said.
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But where do you draw the line between an interpretation that is freeing—and thus freeing to the audience, too—and one that is just frustratingly and bafflingly self-indulgent?
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Should I be comforted by the fact that the rich seem to wracked with guilt over their wealth, or should I be annoyed that they're being so emotionally self-indulgent?
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Al Franken to the long and growing list of prominent men (yes, it's all men) who turn out to have abused their power by engaging in sleazy, self-indulgent misconduct.
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In the taxonomy of travelers, the word "explorer" suggests a morally superior pioneer; "adventurer," by contrast, implies a self-indulgent adrenaline junkie who scares loved ones by courting puerile risk.
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"The Rhythm Section" was directed by Reed Morano, who did a nice job with the first few episodes of "The Handmaid's Tale," but who seems a bit self-indulgent here.
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Wilson and, indirectly, President Trump, both reflections of our polarized, dysfunctional, self-interested, and self-indulgent politics today he went on to tell some more truth – now about our country.
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It was an abuse of his office, and of the American people who deserve much more than the sloppy, emotional, self-indulgent performer who seems to be pretending he's President.
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The real Cromwell was a cunning conspirator who tore up the old order in service of a self-indulgent, wife-killing king who forced a breakaway religion on his subjects.
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Soon, audiences walking into a Shyamalan movie stopped expecting a 21st-century Hitchcock, and his name became synonymous with ill-advised cameos, self-indulgent pacing, and the cheapest of trick endings.
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Here, I'll let you know what people think of you: Even though you're vain, self-indulgent, and unreliable, people are always in awe of your charm, tact, and faith in humanity.
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The one question I've never quite been able to answer about Girls is also one of the most crucial: Is the show sharp and self-aware, or oblivious and self-indulgent?
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Earlier on, he'd told me that he's still not used to speaking so openly about himself, for such a long period of time, and he finds it a bit self-indulgent.
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But in spite of his noble intentions, the Night Manager star was roundly criticized on social media by observers who found his remarks self-indulgent, tone-deaf, or just plain awkward.
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And most infuriatingly, ISIS and al Qaeda, far from losing support, will enjoy highlighting the self-indulgent recklessness of this Gulf infighting as the region fails to put out its fires.
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But the version currently on screens feels self-indulgent and baggy, like a grab bag of ideas that needed more winnowing and a sharper focus on one or two key ideas.
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Self-indulgent though Mr. Fehlbaum's design and architecture patronage might seem, he is convinced that it benefits Vitra, which makes an unspecified annual donation to the museum, a separate nonprofit entity.
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Given the very public relationship drama that preceded its release, the hungry masses would've been perfectly satisfied with a kiss-off anthem, even if it had been shallow or self-indulgent.
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As a way of giving thanks to all of these awesome distractions, we've compiled recipes that allow for a grand last-minute meal but won't intrude on your self-indulgent lifestyle.
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I used to think it was self-indulgent or shameful to write about my private passions, but then I realized that as a reader I loved learning about other writers' obsessions.
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But now with the rise of tribalism and nationalism and the bobbing of the ugly head of fascism, can the sleepy, self-indulgent Western art world rise from its slumber, too?
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When they were applauding Trump, the students were not applauding a prophetic visionary but someone with a dangerous Pharaonic mentality, one who is intemperate, self-indulgent, power hungry, unpredictable and narcissistic.
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The GOP's best shot for 2020 is to present an inverse reflection of the Democrats' self-indulgent impeachment circus by pursuing American's top priority instead of that which is least important.
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Given the very public relationship drama that preceded its release, the hungry masses would've been perfectly satisfied with a kiss-off anthem, even if it had been shallow or self-indulgent.
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"I find it incredibly self indulgent for the Tory party to be going for this sort of stuff," he said on ITV television, using an alternative name for the Conservative Party.
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" Mr. Rodriguez said in a statement that when "10 people from any background perish under such horrific circumstances, it is an occasion deserving of solemnity and respect, not self-indulgent cheerleading.
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Even if the frontman mantle still rests somewhat uneasily on his broad shoulders—Avery frequently refers to his record as "self-indulgent"—in its creation, he remained steadfast in his vision.
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What started as a "pretty self-indulgent" sketch of an idea toying with multiple harmonies and dark country-inflected tones soon became a mini-epic, set somewhere in a demented purgatorial state.
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One would expect a column titled "2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege" to appear in Thought Catalog, the self-indulgent opinion site, or perhaps self-published on Medium.
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In school, "getting" him could be exhilarating, performing his work potentially transformative, and memorizing his sonnets the sort of deeply self-indulgent thing someone might do to impress a teacher or crush.
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That New Year's Eve was just one of many self-indulgent outings allegedly enjoyed by UAW leaders on the union's dime as laid out by federal prosecutors in court documents this week.
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It's a brief but sad moment, one that reveals how consumer abundance, or the illusion of it, has made Andrew so petulant, childish and self-indulgent that he despises his own mother.
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I'd be overwhelmed by the realization that my experiment with guns was a childish, self-indulgent fantasy, disrespectful of the life Galen had lost and of all that my family had suffered.
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" Ignoring British newspaper headlines suggesting that her Vogue cameo during times of such political uncertainty was self-indulgent and frivolous, she added: "It doesn't stop me from going out and enjoying fashion.
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And I guess when there's no one to help reel him in, he can become too self-indulgent with his ideas and think less about the character pieces that support the ideas.
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Trump said he won't attend the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, an annual parade of celebrities, journalists, and politicians that in recent years has drawn fire for being too opulent and self-indulgent.
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I'm not going to fully quote her, but it's something on the idea of young women, in this day and age, making choices about their looks that isn't distracting, but not self-indulgent.
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That will be a reprise of his starmaking role on True Detective, when his lively direction saved us all from drowning in the insanely self-indulgent and bizarre mythology that led, ultimately, nowhere.
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As a stay-at-home mom, I'm painted as a lazy, self-indulgent woman who spends her idle days lunching with fellow unemployed mommies, or frittering away her hardworking husband's salary on shopping.
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A year after the allegations against Harvey Weinstein were first reported, a federal judge behaved as a self-indulgent brat, unwavering in his conviction that he deserves to be on the Supreme Court.
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Watched this one at the behest of a friend, and I had to acknowledge the truth: This movie was a self-indulgent work of fake-deepness not worthy of the Rotten Tomato score.
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How refreshing to read a sharp, astringent critique of the kind of self-indulgent meanderings that too many people seem to feel they must share with the world, complete with knowledgeable fact-checking.
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Yes, they're in their mid-20s and slowly sorting themselves out a bit, so I get that it's not going to be like before, but the whole thing feels self-indulgent and unfinished.
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Moss has only brief screen time, but is transfixing as her undead-looking Tethered self enjoys a moment of pure self-indulgent pleasure applying lip gloss, a maniacal smile spreading across her scarred cheeks.
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Their selfies have become a gratuitous, blatantly self-indulgent act meant to celebrate their own self-confidence, their own pride in their bare form, rather than something seeking the validation of a mass audience.
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On this show, my colleague, Circuit Breaker's Ashley Carman, and me, the Culture section's most self-indulgent blogger, talk about all the tiny decisions your gadgets and apps force you to make every day.
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Sure, such a thing may sound self-indulgent, but plenty of today's salon-goers aren't just seeking a new look — they're chopping off their long, mermaid-length hair in an effort to help others.
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It's also very easy to imitate and tease, or dismiss the work as self-indulgent liberal artistry (though anyone could be forgiven for cringing at the line, "Like capitalism, it works like unrequited love").
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Indiana's extra-art diatribes — on flower shows and ozone holes, sumo wrestling, banks collecting art — in his self-indulgent affectation in which all of the proper names had been excised — are hardly skim worthy.
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But most of the freak-show violence just feels like self-indulgent excess that distracts from a much more interesting story about Jesse willingly finding her level in what seems like a bottomless cesspit.
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These celebrations can be small, they can be totally meaningless to other people, they can be grand, they can be humble, they can be self-indulgent — and all of that is totally, absolutely fine.
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"The Romanoffs": Matthew Weiner look the creative latitude that "Mad Men" brought him and turned that into a self-indulgent, globetrotting anthology, with each episode loosely related to the ill-fated Russian royal family.
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To most, Load is just another terrible album from 1996—20033 minutes of evidence that the most successful of the Big Four 1980s thrash bands had fully abandoned metal for self-indulgent dad rock.
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Instead of appearing as self-indulgent and entitled, they should follow one of two options — handle their royal responsibilities with a sense of duty and honor, or withdraw completely and follow their own path.
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In a recent piece in "Poets & Writers," Febos describes the experience of teaching writing to young women, so many of whom are afraid that relating their own experience will be seen as self-indulgent.
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Within hours, if not minutes, of the publication of the Rolling Stone article, Mr. Penn was being vilified for his self-indulgent prose style and his awkwardly friendly attitude toward Mr. Guzmán, a wanted criminal.
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Shawe has accused Elting of demanding too much cash from the business to fund her supposedly extravagant lifestyle, and Elting has similarly criticized Shawe's world travel and "self-indulgent" wedding, according to Bouchard's August ruling.
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If it was once possible to wonder what this empathetic voice of reason was doing with the self-indulgent Pfeffermans, the season makes clear that part of Raquel deeply craves this family's brand of crazy.
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" Paul Begala: Boomers, worst generation ever Sixteen years ago I wrote in Esquire, "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history.
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A Jenga tower has 54 blocks, and in the moment I realized this, the game I'd been working on for almost three years had disintegrated before my eyes into a pile of self-indulgent scribbles.
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For those of my generation not fortunate enough to attend college, such tragic pretensions could seem self-indulgent, if not cowardly; they were already getting shot at slogging through rice paddies or under jungle canopies.
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As long as it's (to take a partial, but broadly representative sample) shameful, offensive, idiotic, rude, humiliating, repulsive, violent, evil, inept, self-indulgent or self-satisfied, retrograde, or naïve, The Discourse can work with it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Brexit minister David Davis backed Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday, saying claims made by former finance minister George Osborne that she was a "dead woman walking" were wrong and self-indulgent.
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But dwelling in that state of mind, even by proxy, can soon feel self-indulgent and self-absorbed, and art in that register can end up feeling more like a hefty weight than a release.
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What we find is we have a tremendous online presence — I started out blogging at the Atlantic — but there is some sense, if I may be self-indulgent, who are we without this Obama story?
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However, their self-indulgent behavior brings them into conflict with three alpha moms at the school – played by Christina Applegate, Annie Mumolo, and Jada Pinkett Smith–who were the impetus for Amy's decision to break bad.
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Frankly, it's a relief that he hasn't suffered the pitfalls that aging rock stars are prone to: settling into a cheesy comfort zone, robotically trotting out the classics without feeling, or lapsing into self-indulgent pretentiousness.
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Stefánie isn't even her father's first new name; before he was Steven Faludi he was István Friedman, only son of an aloof, self-indulgent Jewish couple in Budapest who lost everything but their lives under Nazism.
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When I asked Ms. Cain (while interviewing her about introversion in teenagers) if self-indulgent introverts risked crossing the line into antisocial behavior — if we might, in fact, just be being rude — she laughed, and agreed.
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Both "Nip/Tuck" and "Glee" ran for multiple seasons, and had intense fan bases, but they also flew off the rails: "Nip/Tuck" became a Grand Guignol in its twists; "Glee" got preachy and self-indulgent.
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Sometimes I feel sort of like a self-indulgent creep listening to my own stuff but I guess it's like reading through a journal — remembering what you thought back then, or what was important to you.
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Mr. Macaigne has done better in the past when tackling the work of other playwrights: He would do well to set aside the self-indulgent excess of "Je Suis un Pays" and do less, but better.
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It's not like the debt problem resulted from some misfortune, hurricane or calamity out of its own control, but self-indulgent liberal spending and arrogant confidence that eventually the mainland would bailout its irresponsible budget management.
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But is my choice of turning to a stack of Agatha Christie paperbacks a virtuous form of self-care and an admirable coping strategy, while thumbing through Instagram on your cellphone is a self-indulgent timesuck?
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"The End" is the strangest of the six volumes as well as the most self-indulgent: a book about self-obsession that opines at length about what it is like to write a book about self-obsession.
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Amazon is getting a little self-indulgent with its ads and featured content, and the company seriously needs to work things out with YouTube ASAP, but those downsides aren't enough to ruin the rest of what's here.
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With smartphone companies like Apple and Samsung stepping up their camera game over the past few years, the photography world feels inundated with inconsequential, throw-away images (self-indulgent selfies, "look what I had for lunch," OOTD…).
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The trouble is that, whereas the talks aimed at ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons will be delicate, complicated and technical, Mr Trump is impulsive and self-indulgent—as this week's sacking of Mr Tillerson showed.
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Detractors will argue that Rebecca's power anthem of "self-indulgent self-loathing" doesn't have the witty rhyme structure or clever wordplay of other songs on this list, but for sheer force and power, it can't be beaten.
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Compared with the millions of families ravaged by poverty, abuse and illness, the obstacles faced here amount to mere inconveniences, and that can make the film seem self-indulgent, despite its friendly subjects and sometimes lighthearted tone.
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There was an exposé on the charitable givings of Trump's foundation, uncovering years of self-indulgent purchases — some illegal — feigned as donations, and the release of a hot mic recording revealing Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women.
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I know that imposter syndrome during a pandemic is the most self-indulgent kind, but in those low moments, I wonder what special skills I have that I can go out when other people are hunkered down?
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would not attend the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, an annual parade of celebrities, journalists and politicians that in recent years has drawn fire for being too opulent and self-indulgent.
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Critics who are unaware, or more likely unwilling to acknowledge that this narrative has been created by LeBeouf himself, have dismissed his artistic performances as the self-indulgent narcissism of a celebrity desperate for acknowledgement from intellectual circles.
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Above all else, there's a whole lot of Jack-Jack, who's turning into the Minion of the Incredibles movies: the cute babbling thing that takes over the story and slows down the action for self-indulgent comic riffs.
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Frank's a classic Baby Boomer archetype—solipsistic, self-indulgent, and somewhat entitled—but also a good guy to have a beer with, a solid conversationalist, and someone who enjoys his easygoing existence, or at least he appears to.
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One in a lifelong series of gauchely self-indulgent pet projects of Alki David, the Greek heir to a Coca-Cola bottling fortune (net worth: approximately $2 billion), Hologram USA can, presumably, operate at a complete financial loss.
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Now, thanks to the woman who wishes to be the most powerful politician in the world, consideration for the poor and unfortunate has been commoditized for the benefit of self-indulgent plutocrats who want a tax write-off.
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But awaking in the morning to my cat attacking a pile of littered wrappers, I snapped out of my sleep-deprived, self-indulgent guilt trip and felt a deep gratitude that I wasn't living a cookie-cutter life.
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Terrence Malick's bellybutton-obsessed music industry jeremiad was packed with ridiculous and self-indulgent bullshit, as well as one (and only one) amazing scene involving Val Kilmer and a bucket of what may or may not be uranium.
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"Art and design education is often misunderstood to be frivolous and self-indulgent or focused upon designing for a cultural elite," Dr. Harriet Harriss, Royal College of Art professor and director of the brief, wrote in a statement.
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I could tell it was trying to appeal to me — a 20-something writer who lives in Los Angeles — but all it did was remind me that this portrayal of Los Angeles can get insular and self-indulgent, fast.
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It's such a naked fantasy of self-satisfaction, of a bullied kid being told that his self-indulgent obsessions are the most important things in the world and that he deserves power, respect, and admiration for having pursued them.
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Tarantino includes nods to his own movies in his ninth feature, which has been described by some critics as self-indulgent and overly long at times, even if nearly all found enough to like in its show-stealing scenes.
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She began seeing Dr. Thigpen in Augusta, Ga., after her first marriage, when she began alternating between the demure and depressed Eve White and the self-indulgent party girl Eve Black, perplexing her husband with her bizarrely shifting behavior.
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But the way Trump conducted himself after European allies are threatened by crisis and American families feel threatened by their retirement plans whose value was reduced by the market fall made him look crass, self-indulgent and greedy — again.
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On "The Politician," most of the characters are focused on being perfect — maybe a little too focused — and as such, don't engage in the self-indulgent displays of emotion that some older critics seem to think they ought to.
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Non-Fiction begins with Alain (Guillaume Canet), a slick book editor, going to lunch with Léonard (Vincent Macaigne), a schlubby, self-indulgent novelist, to tell him that he won't be publishing his latest manuscript, which feels tired and unimaginative.
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But what prevents the best work from being merely self-indulgent is Twombly's sense of form coupled with his sympathy for his subject, whether it is a wistful poem by Sappho or the travails of a minor Greek god.
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Sure, the language describing the tree is as self-indulgent as the $300 Apple coffee table book, but I'd rather than have this peaceful-looking tree over Claridge's previous collaboration with Lanvin in 2011 featuring some super creepy dolls.
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Professor Reinhardt argued that what drove up the singularly high cost of health care in the United States was not the country's aging population or a surplus of physicians or even Americans' self-indulgent visits to doctors and hospitals.
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You're probably paying twice as much as you should to live in a closet in Bushwick, the standard price for a mediocre Dark and Stormy has somehow become $12, and sometimes taking a cab feels like a self-indulgent luxury.
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Swanberg's self-indulgent 2013 movie Drinking Buddies, for example, managed to make charismatic actors like Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, and Ron Livingston feel hopelessly dull, stuck in their own heads and without much of anything important to say.
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"I think if we weren't, as writers, writing from a self-indulgent place of the movie we wanted to see, if we didn't pick a path that was somewhat audacious, then we're not gonna get the respect of anybody," he said.
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For six weeks I existed in a state of liminality, checking into one hotel after another, setting up temporary homes in rooms ranging from mold-ridden to near-luxurious, depending on how self-indulgent I felt when I booked them.
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The Bachelor, which hit a hiccup with last season's Bachelor in Paradise because of a sexual misconduct allegation, continues to thrive because it doesn't put on any airs about what it's supposed to be: self-indulgent, sometimes ugly, often dramatic entertainment.
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Magazine that she doesn't have any new projects scheduled at the moment, and is committed to bonding as much as possible with Ivy before she begins school full time — even if she does feel it's "completely self-indulgent" of her.
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While these early-20th-century poets clearly reveled in new freedoms of form and expression, the writing sometimes veers into self-indulgent romanticism ("I am a patch of cloud in the sky / Casting by chance a shadow on your heart").
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The 30-minute session finds the quartet at their most gleefully self-indulgent, running through a range of genres including joyful Jersey club and UK bassline, and even having the guts to commit a Lumidee/Animal Collective blend to tape.
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Recorded over an intensively productive handful of days together, the project put two of Atlanta's trap natives together for an artful, memorable song cycle that vacillated between self-indulgent hedonism and self-deprecating despair—often on the same damn track.
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The same virtue that provides the ability to pay for a self-indulgent treat or a naughty service without its appearing on bank records or credit-card statements also allows criminals to fund their activities and tax-dodgers to avoid levies.
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Electing the rich, self-indulgent Donald Trump, who has little regard for rules and regulations that don't suit him, and no regard for people who don't adore him, would be a calamity for our democracy that could take decades to repair.
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Bad news: Weird Al Yankovic, who collected his complete works in a cleverly designed box set last year, is sticking exclusively to his lesser-known original humorous compositions on what he is calling the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour.
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Mr. Wolfe's most consistent topic was satirizing what he saw as the hypocrisy of liberals, especially status-obsessed elites, whether the self-indulgent innocents of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters or the Leonard Bernstein set naïvely hosting the violent Black Panthers.
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The costly routing of so many supposedly work-oriented trips through Oklahoma so that Pruitt can spend a self-indulgent amount of time back home: Doesn't that recall the president's constant breaks at his resorts in Florida and New Jersey?
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The book, which weighs in at more than 950 pages, is sloppy, self-indulgent and often eye-crossingly dull — the sound of one man prattling away, not for the reader, but for himself and some distant recording angel of history.
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The unconsidered drips and scrawls of paint with which this Chilean artist covers them might seem self-indulgent, but they give the surfaces a visual texture that subtly complicates their kitchen-sink topology while also making it easier to follow.
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She speculated that rather than flee Britain, he — a rakishly debonair and reputedly self-indulgent aristocrat — had killed himself immediately after realizing that he had murdered the wrong woman in what she saw as an attempt to terminate their abusive marriage.
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But I do wish Orr had simply said more bluntly what needs to be said: that Bukowski remains a thoroughly self-indulgent and odious degenerate whose drunken excursions into the world of poetry were grotesque abuses of the literary form.
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And "Once Bitten" is straight up fantastic, reining in some of the show's most self-indulgent tendencies to further a story just as tense and compelling as that of any critically acclaimed drama anchored by a "brooding" (and, yes, melodramatic) man.
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Flanagan and Howard follow King surprisingly close, right down to leaving in an oddball, self-indulgent crossover with King's novel Dolores Claiborne, a brief Dark Tower reference that the poorly received movie more or less sets up, and even a Cujo joke.
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The metaphorical side of all this can make for beautiful prose — and Sullivan is just one of many, many writers to make opioids a symbol of America in 2018 — but the problem with this kind of writing isn't just that it's self-indulgent.
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I'd rather be sitting at my house, doing something productive, than dressing up in really expensive clothes and being photographed on a red carpet ... To do the self-indulgent, 'Look at me, I'm amazing' thing on the red carpet, it's not me.
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"There's nothing worse than being at the end of this festival and watching a two-and-a-half-hour-long film that's (got) self indulgent scenes in it," she said, a description that could apply to many of the films screened this year.
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"I find it incredibly self-indulgent for the Tory (Conservative) party to be going for this sort of stuff," Davis told U.K. broadcaster ITV when asked about the former Conservative Member of Parliament's (MP's) views on May's poor performance at the polls.
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Raw and tragic without being didactic or self-indulgent, this coming-of-age story is the kind of thing to put on when you and someone else want to get to know each other on fast-forward through the magic of shared experience.
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It's an insider satire of avant-garde performance, and although most of its ideas are clever in concept (a dance of synchronized blinking), the execution is only intermittently funny, so much of the show becomes as dully self-indulgent as what it mocks.
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The subject seemed offensive to many at some primal level, or at least ridiculously self-indulgent, as if those involved — working, married people, people with children — were indecently preoccupied with sexual adventure instead of channeling their energies toward, say, their children, or composting.
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This time, we were in adult-centric mode, trading the joys of experiencing the island through a child's eyes for self-indulgent exploration of local history and culture, cocktails and hours of reading, with few distractions other than staring out at the sea.
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In the 260s, they saw one of their own become president, watching him gain glory as one of the most gifted politicians of his time, but also infamy as one of its most self-indulgent — a poster child for the Me Generation.
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But it also cites Yale's own long history of "creative destruction" of campus names and symbols, while offering a defense of renaming debates at a moment when some on the left and the right are increasingly dismissing them as self-indulgent distraction.
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To some extent, he follows the filmmaker in dissecting the pretensions of the aristocratic hosts and their guests: the opera singer and her conductor, the rational doctor and his delirious patient, the young couple lost in self-indulgent love, and the rest.
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He makes some self-indulgent, occasionally bizarre remarks about how the crime has affected his life (emphasis added): I never want to experience being in a position where it will have a negative impact on my life or someone else's ever again.
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Take for example, the end of the show's eighth episode, which expertly lampoons the final scene of Call Me by Your Name, framing Cary's abortive romance as a self-indulgent cry over a nonrelationship that never went past talk of who'd eat the pizza.
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Tweeting at airlines is a whole other category of horrific, because on top of being a brand tweet it's also the type of boring, self-indulgent behavior that you could lump in with making someone listen to the story of a long and complicated nightmare.
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And part of being on the outside, apparently, is steering "self-indulgent" celeb events in which the rich and famous dress to the nines and flaunt their success; the worst of which, in Malik's view, is the Met Gala, which he attended back in 2016.
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He was an extremely sensitive man, who suffered much from the merest slights, but was also an extremely dominating, cruel and self-indulgent one, who judged his wives harshly, slapped them when angry and forced them to bear all the known forms of disloyalty.
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Rumors are all over Washington, and are the subject of concerned conversations on Capitol Hill, that at least one major newspaper is planning an expose of a large number of randy, self-indulgent members of Congress—perhaps some 30 or 40 of them, it's said.
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When self-indulgent benders and fatal overdoses seemed to be stripping the scene of its philosophical credibility, as well as killing off its members, many responded in what they saw as the most subversive way possible: by swearing off all drugs and alcohol for life.
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Though fashion is often dismissed as frivolous and self-indulgent, this growing niche suggests that rather than being part of the problem — and a symbol of the multiple divisions in society (political, personal, economic) — it can actually come up with some of the answers.
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But I was facing a 22-hour flight to New York last week with a computer filled with a lot of movies I had seen on the 22-hour flight out, and the prospect of just writing incredibly long newsletters to you seemed self-indulgent.
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When done right, they marry the best of both worlds: Every time you start to get bored with the characters' self-indulgent wallowing in their own problems, there's a dragon; just when you start to lose track of the characters' psychologies, there's an existential crisis.
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There's no single evil entity to blame here, even if there are a series of less-than-ideal actors, from a struggling government to profit-driven companies to self-indulgent tourists who believe their bucket list trumps the lives and physical safety of those around them.
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Early on in Terrence Malick's new film Knight of Cups, Rick — a self-indulgent screenwriter with a failed marriage behind him who soothes his existential ails with a parade of random models, actresses, and high-fiving Hollywood buddies — is shaken from sleep by a massive earthquake.
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He hit the road for 77 dates on his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour, on which he ditched the extravagant costumes, props, and video screens that have become staples of his high-production stage show, and instead played stripped-down sets with his band.
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I played the role of the spoiled Western woman complaining about some self-indulgent product I ordered but hadn't received, and the woman on the other end played the unconvincingly apologetic customer service rep, assuring me I'd receive the rest of the order in ten business days.
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Amazon's adaptation of Chris Kraus's autobiographical-ish novel — helmed by Sarah Gubbins and Transparent creator Jill Soloway — is just as self-indulgent as the thought experiments acted out by its artist characters, all bored by their own brilliance in the sun-bleached desert of Marfa, Texas.
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In the earlier part of her memoir, her tight focus on her own story at the expense of anyone else's can come off as self-indulgent, even self-aggrandizing, but it is part of her considerable art that by the end, it feels like a winning frankness.
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At nearly 13 minutes long, Satterwhite's is the most self-indulgent: it is cheeky and alluring at first, but it doesn't offer much variability in imagery (although there is a lot of it to saturate your screen), replicating the experience of hanging out at an industrial nightclub.
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All too often, artistic expression — and artistic freedom — has doubled as a kind of smokescreen for self-indulgent behavior: The erotic feelings art and artistic collaboration evokes in (usually) men is so deep-seated, so powerful that they cannot help (they say) but succumb to their urges.
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This is basically why France's failed Maginot Line became a modern parable: You prepare for a threat you've already faced, expecting it to behave in the exact fashion you've predicted, and then something different shows up that exploits the opportunity cost of all those self-indulgent pet projects.
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The burning of Notre Dame was inadvertently symbolic, a devastation that stood in for the general loss of public worship in our time, the erosion of "We" into a billion little atoms, each of them singing and celebrating the individual in a self-indulgent, depressing and literal manner.
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It wasn't until a study conducted on behalf of General Mills noted, after interviewing housewives, that they found the mixes overly simple and too self-indulgent, that the recipes began calling for eggs to be mixed in, inviting a more active contribution in the success of the cake.
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From the time France reluctantly ended its mandate in 1943, and particularly in the decades between the close of World War II and the disaster that tore Lebanon apart in the 1970s, Beirut was more cosmopolitan, more tolerant and, perhaps above all, more self-indulgent than any Arab city.
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Other members of the family have accepted, as part of the bargain they were born into, the tabloid feeding frenzy: zoom lenses poking out of the shrubbery; school friends offered cash to betray their confidence; story lines, some of them invented, casting them as lazy, uncouth and self-indulgent.
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And when aides have to go public explaining that "the real" Trump is actually a nice guy, the effect is likewise muted — given that they seek to correct the image of a self-indulgent adolescent, not that of a deadly serious commander in chief venting occasional righteous anger.
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The show comes so close to defying so many typical TV rules — here, we've got a self-indulgent, overstuffed, overlong episode that brought to mind when Sons of Anarchy would routinely run two hour episodes — but by the end of every episode, I'm a little more in love with it.
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And if the nation's coffers are truly so threadbare, perhaps the president would be willing to spare some of the $12 million he's planning to spend on a self-indulgent military parade (or the $12 billion he's spending to bail out farmers who theoretically will be hurt by his trade war).
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That's part of what keeps his essays from descending into self-indulgent dude-lit — that, and the genuine thoughtfulness that prevents him from lingering on how cool it is that jiu-jitsu is violent and macho, and leads him instead to explore why the violence and machismo is so appealing.
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Add in a whole mess of subplots involving Buffy pining after her dad and Angel doing some of his most self-indulgent moping, and "Helpless" loses some of the spark it could've had by making Buffy fend for herself without her powers for the first time since before the show began.
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Like most fantasies, they are not interested in the personhood or the subjectivity of anyone besides the person fantasizing — but what really makes Heather, the Totality a failure of a novel is that it does not succeed in moving beyond the self-indulgent appeal of the fantasy and granting Heather her own personhood.
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"It was our chance to take the piss out of these self-indulgent, self-important ads you see on TV. It seemed like something that would be a lot of fun to do," Van Der Beek says on the ad's comedic intent, which was devised by him, O'Neal, and VICE's Trent Rohner.
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I see Jupiter Ascending as a significant precursor here: Female fans lost their minds over that movie precisely because it was so open and unabashed about embracing its romance tropes and catering to viewers' desire for self-indulgent id-fantasy — which, of course, was the very same reason it was critically trashed.
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But even if it weren't, I would be writing this review with my heart on my sleeve to tell you all to go see it, because it's one of those musicals that earnestly strives to be exactly what it is: a good-hearted, shamelessly self-indulgent trope factory built on fun and silliness.
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While Morrison fails to rescue the image of England's ruler as the portly, self-indulgent lecher waggishly created by the poets and cartoonists of Regency times, he does well to remind readers how much George and his pet architect, John Nash, contributed to transforming London into an elegant and supremely modern metropolis.
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After reading Dave Eggers's "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius," I stupidly thought I too should type up self-indulgent, 5,000-word riffs about, say, finding an apartment in New York or taking surf lessons while on assignment with the Obamas in Hawaii, things that had little to do with the larger story.
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Her legacy of writing, and baring every ugly, square-peg-in-round-hole element of herself -- even when people dismissed her as narcissistic and self-indulgent, even when she really was both those things -- will remain vital in a world where she so often turned out to have been right all along.
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She is not nervous but Javier knows she'd like to get this first meeting out of the way, to get her talking done, to see whether what she says out loud alone in the house or while she works is the self-indulgent babble of a solitary creature or an articulate equivalent to her brushstrokes.
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Barbara was to be a tribute to everyone McLeod had seen in years studying performance art at college and attending scores of spoken word poetry nights: all the dreadful pieces, stop-motion films, and chronically self-indulgent poets ("The worst poets always seemed to be the ones who would always have ten more poems to read").
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Creeper, on the other hand, throw all their sadness at "Misery" and that sadness sticks, resulting in the sort of track that you would listen to when you're taking a self-indulgent walk in the rain hoping that people will notice you've left the house and be worried because you're a huge attention seeker (NOT speaking from experience).
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Such a project might sound self-indulgent (and hey, it probably is!) but judging by the teases we've seen so far, the two Matthews are so charming together that it's hard not to grin right alongside them — or at least live vicariously through them — as they clink glasses on some sun-soaked veranda, the wonderful jerks.
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And while viral tweets of protest or arguments encountered only on Facebook can be written off as the pastime of a self-indulgent generation of "coastal liberal elites," there is no gymnastics of the mind that can make the argument that these marchers were a "coastal," or "elitist," or even just a Democratic response to the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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That, year after year, it is equally passed around real-life boarding schools as a self-indulgent celebration of their own lives (remember when the cast of Laguna Beach used to watch The O.C.?) and passed among young women who found the moneyed world of trust fund babies fascinating and horrifying, is a prime example of the book's broad appeal.
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Rochester has a thoughtful nature and a very feeling heart; he is neither selfish nor self-indulgent; he is ill-educated, misguided; errs, when he does err, through rashness and inexperience: he lives for a time as too many other men live, but being radically better than most men, he does not like that degraded life, and is never happy in it.
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All of these agonizing choices will be rendered even more complicated by the sensitive political moment conjured by the coronavirus pandemic and fast rising rate of infections in the US. With public anxiety mounting, there may be little tolerance for a Sanders campaign that could come to be seen as self-indulgent if there is no real possibility he could catch Biden in delegates.
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Even though I try to signal the difference with warnings like "wonkish", I know that many readers still don't understand that there's a difference between stuff I write to deadline on Mondays and Thursdays and stuff I post when the mood strikes; I get complaints about "wasting space" even when no trees were killed in the making of a post that's technical, self-indulgent, or both.
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Though often self-indulgent and long-winded, the novel leaves the reader with both a devastating family portrait and a harrowing portrait of America in the late 1990's — an America deep in the grip of that decade's money madness and sick with envy, resentment, greed, acquisitiveness and self-delusion, an America committed to the quick-fix solution and determined to try to medicate its problems away.
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It's still got its self-indulgent moments—most of the tracks are too long, they waste a lot of space on big dumb 220s grooves, and Hetfield's vocals are way too clean and prominent in the mix—but it's also got actual thrash metal songs like "Atlas, Rise" and "Spit Out the Bone" that boldly reference the band's initial NWOBHM influences, adding a snarling edge that the fans have been missing for quite awhile now.
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For Churchill — who suffered as a child under the remote glare of a contemptuous father and a self-indulgent mother; fought valiantly in four wars by the time he was 25; and earned his own living through prodigious literary efforts that ultimately earned him a Nobel Prize — the main privilege was the opportunity to bear up under the immense weight of inner expectation that came with being born to a historic name.
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Older, more conservative people, a majority of whom voted to leave, tend to be more critical of the couple and defensive of Queen Elizabeth II. Where Prince Harry and Meghan's defenders see a multiracial, trans-Atlantic family seeking refuge from a vindictive press and the hidebound traditions of royal life, critics see a self-indulgent pair who want the perks of royalty without its responsibilities, forsaking queen and country for the stardust of Hollywood.
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Although the writing is at times self-indulgent — the narrative jumping back and forth in time with each dozen-page chapter and Mumler's 1869 trial for fraud appearing in the form of a transcript fit for a movie — the extremely well-researched and fascinating stories that come out of it leave the reader wondering how people could have possibly been so easily tricked by what we now know to be double exposures and other very simple methods of photographic manipulation.
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As we sit in the Clift Hotel's lobby cafe, decorated with black-and-white animal tiles, it's startling to think that this is the woman who pierced the self-indulgent, adolescent Pleasure Island mentality of Silicon Valley, causing the stunning downfall of Travis "we call that 'Boob-er'" Kalanick and starting a bonfire on creepy sexual behavior in Silicon Valley that, fueled by a report in The Times and cascading stories, spread to Hollywood and engulfed Harvey Weinstein and Amazon's Roy Price.
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Once you learn to spot himpathy, it becomes difficult not to see it everywhere: in men such as the former editor of The New York Review of Books Ian Buruma, who published a self-indulgent essay by a former Canadian talk-show host accused of sexual assault and harassment by more than 20 women; in women like the five Republicans whom CNN convened recently to voice support for Judge Kavanaugh ("Tell me, what boy hasn't done this in high school?" asked one, shrugging himpathetically).
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