It's been denounced by critics as deeply misogynist and self-indulgently violent.
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But in 2016, Homestuck did seem to be finished, or as finished as anything so outrageously, self-indulgently complex could be.
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In addition to self-indulgently reveling in social media attention for your "I Voted" sticker, you can also sink into some Phish Food.
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In the eyes of the world, they were suffering from a disease, and we were suffering from being intractably and disconsolately — and some might say self-indulgently — ourselves.
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Despite opening with a self-indulgently Lynchian long headlights-at-night shot, this episode dipped a toe into conventionality, and honestly that's part of what made it so cathartic.
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" He then proceeded to endorse, as a future Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, May's freshly departed, self-indulgently destructive Foreign Secretary, largely on the ground that "he obviously likes me.
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Are we acting unethically — or at the least selfishly or self-indulgently — in pursuing biological children instead of adopting orphans who could benefit from what (we like to think) would be a good home?
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Emboldened by the left's new adoption of him as a victim/messiah, he has shed any pretense of professional stoicism and seemingly cares little that self-indulgently discussing his interactions with the president now, before the probe concludes, may deleteriously alter the outcome.
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HBO has a rocky history with representations of women in its shows, let alone people of color: For every Girls, there are a dozen series about men in power in various eras, behaving badly and self-indulgently, and using women as toys or tools.
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Not all of the show's ideas are as successful — a Season 4 episode, in which Gretchen takes a trip home to the Midwest, felt self-indulgently grim and, in attempting to fill in the background of her mental issues, only emphasized how on-the-surface the show's characterizations tend to be.
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Shortly after news broke of Guzmán's capture at the hands of an elite squad of Mexican marines in his home state of Sinaloa, Sean Penn came under heavy criticism for his secret rendezvous with the fugitive criminal, and for the Rolling Stone article in which the actor self-indulgently detailed a bizarre October tete-a-tete in the Mexican jungle.
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When he does not self-indulgently divagate too much from the subject of the painting, then his humour allows the reader to chuckle genuinely instead of groan as one does after an unfunny joke.
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What he delivers is an absurdly imaginative story, surreal and comic. His characters are outrageous and thoroughly unbelievable. Fandorin is an impossibly heroic figure. The combination is irresistible." John Thornhill, reviewing the novel in the Financial Times thought the book to be "conventional and self- indulgently enjoyable" Thornhill considers that the story is "steeped in the classics of Russian literature", whilst he considers that Akunin "toys with the styles and conventions of Russia’s illustrious late-19th-century writers.
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The A.V. Club's Keith Phipps gave the episode a B-, explaining that it "didn't quite work" and suffered from tonal problems. Matt Wales on IGN was also mixed, giving it a 7.5 out of 10 rating. He was positive toward Curran and Gillan and that the episode "finally gave us a three-dimensional Amy Pond", but thought the "usually excellent" Smith "didn't get much to work with". He also thought that the Krafayis was "a nice idea" for being a metaphor but was not threatening, and he labelled the emotional ending as "self-indulgently mawkish".
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These opponents then formed a rival organisation, the Flag Group, which officially adopted the name "National Front" in January 1987. According to Eatwell, the Flag NF "was essentially a continuation of the racial-populist tradition" used by earlier forms of the party. It had a greater number of working-class leaders than the Strasserite group and accused the latter of being intellectuals self- indulgently pursuing foreign ideological fads. There remained two organisations claiming the name of National Front—that controlled by the Flag Group and the Official National Front run by the Strasserites—until early 1990.
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