As much as I had hoped for a great farewell, their hour-and-a-half turned into an hour and a half of self-indulgent rock. |
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The end result is a body of pretty-looking, but increasingly empty and self-indulgent work. |
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From feminist separatists to hippy dropouts and self-indulgent hedonists, the movement soon fragmented. |
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The music sounds like it was an afterthought, and the singer's dead-sober seriousness is self-indulgent and boring. |
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Americans are no more self-indulgent in their purchases of health care than they are in their purchases of appliances or cars. |
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His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms. |
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Predictably, the Australian news media has indulged in a frenzy of self-indulgent commentary on the issue. |
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What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become. |
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This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent. |
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Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors. |
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This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience. |
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic. |
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The camera work is eye-poppingly opulent, but feels more self-indulgent than clever. |
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Hedonistic, self-indulgent, voluptuous societies succumb to their enemies and go under. |
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What a message to us, with our extravagant, self-indulgent, hedonistic Western lifestyles. |
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly. |
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It seems a trifle self-indulgent to enjoy such esoteric pleasure in the midst of so much want. |
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Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle. |
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Blogs, those comprehensive and self-indulgent online diaries kept by aspiring scenesters everywhere, aren't usually thought of as humorous. |
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I tried to get a number for Gallo through a record company that released some scratchy, self-indulgent folk albums of his. |
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She's a manky, self-indulgent scrubber who is certainly no role model for young people. |
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe. |
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This movie is a glorious self-indulgence about a man who is gloriously self-indulgent. |
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Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in. |
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This is probably undeserving of the music category, being as it is one part music to five parts self-indulgent waffle. |
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The self-indulgent lifestyle of the celebrity nouveau riches is as far from her experience as it is from any wage slave in a tedious job. |
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His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out. |
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Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity. |
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There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral. |
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It is wearingly self-indulgent in the way its author recounts every strategy, replays every achievement, extols every ally. |
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He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same. |
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That, of course, was not a genuine offer, it was an improper and self-indulgent wisecrack. |
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Well, the often interesting BSS bunch pandered to the crowd and although they did do some self-indulgent jams, it was all by the book. |
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Oftentimes public fear like this can be a self-indulgent kind of collective astral projection. |
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Why making a self-indulgent disco record is the most punk-rock thing the French duo could have done. |
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I usually avoid engaging in cross-columnist disputes because they seem petty and self-indulgent. |
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The first was sentimental and self-indulgent, the second offered hope amid despair. |
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It is thoughtless, it is self-indulgent and it undermines the standards which all right-minded people support. |
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We may be the most self-indulgent country in the world that isn't a tax haven, but you get some really cool stuff thanks to our insanity. |
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony. |
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This slim little volume has its moments but is ultimately too slight, scattershot, and self-indulgent. |
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Their biggest asset is that they know how to pen a tune but don't get mucked up in self-indulgent slop, and know when to pull out all stops. |
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This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia. |
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This Senate custom of valedictory speeches may look self-indulgent to some but I think is quite important in its own way. |
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She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career. |
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I am going to be incredibly self-indulgent that day and light one hundred candles just to spite you. |
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Too much of it is loose, self-indulgent and, the cardinal sin of political comedy, badly researched. |
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A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat. |
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather. |
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So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there. |
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That was when I got the payback for my shameless, self-indulgent comfort-fest. |
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As much as circumstances permit I intend to be fairly self-indulgent and lazy today. |
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The most stratospheric flights of that speech exuded the utopian impossibilism which he attacked when practised by the self-indulgent Old Left. |
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Overall, everyone's favourite self-indulgent superpower hasn't budged an inch. |
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At the worst of times, this nearly-three-hour self-indulgent muddle of a faux epic is flat-out unbearable. |
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Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent. |
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While inevitably self-indulgent and infuriating in parts, it is also smart and surprising. |
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That tendency has led to accusations that the New Age movement attracts self-indulgent consumerists whose primary focus is on themselves. |
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It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia. |
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It's coming alright but not in the way those light-headed, self-indulgent fops think. |
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Have I successfully painted my self-indulgent portrait of a frustrated artist yet? |
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For the truly self-indulgent, Viva Brasil in Genoa Nervi makes custom bikinis to order. |
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I have not gossiped, lost my temper, been greedy, nasty, selfish, or self-indulgent. |
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As for extras, the self-indulgent dynamic just keeps on chugging along. |
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Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist? |
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You are self-indulgent, and frequently too indulgent of others, as well. |
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The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent. |
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The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish. |
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Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail. |
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The left on Auckland City's council have become self-indulgent and treacherous to each other. |
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However, I choked on my breakfast cereal at the facile, almost comical self-indulgent tripe in the second half of the piece. |
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Sick of such self-indulgent twaddle, I found the urge to throw the book across the room was strong. |
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Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle? |
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On Friday, though, for all its colour, flair and energy, his playing was often incoherent, self-indulgent and slam-bang crass. |
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The film is meandering and self-indulgent in places, although the music, images and commentary occasionally combine to create moments of genuine beauty. |
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently. |
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But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle. |
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The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent. |
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I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney. |
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The cartoonish characters and the self-indulgent venting made you think the author was using his art to work off private resentments both old and new. |
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It also stops you, in a sense, from communicating with your audience, and it won't do anything to change a skeptic's notion that free jazz is entirely self-indulgent. |
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Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were. |
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Cocooned in layers of cotton fluff, I was lead to Mic's living room couch, still leaning into him but for more self-indulgent reasons than balance. |
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And what happens is that it either degenerates into some form of self-indulgent ego-tripping or it loses itself in tree-hugging or some such specious nonsense. |
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The earnestly intense and naturalistic performances, fine for Ibsen, fit poorly here and consequently come off as either dangerously self-indulgent or oddly casual. |
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At its mediocre worst, a la Pasternak, this subgenre of betrayal lit can be whiny and self-indulgent. |
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It is still hard to fathom how it is that people can be so tempestuous, so very emotionally self-indulgent, around those who really shouldn't be expected to put up with it. |
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I'm selfish, egotistical and self-indulgent, but not so much so that I cannot recognise the times when my selfish occupations need to be subordinated to the common good. |
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The running time is also yawningly self-indulgent at nearly 80 minutes. |
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The other turned a plump, cheery, rather self-indulgent face over his shoulder towards the hailer. |
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It is not a refuge for self-indulgent monomaths to channelize their aggressions within a community of colleagues and students. |
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Put aside your expectations and what we have here is a self-indulgent and tedious luvvie comedy where smug has been substituted for smart. |
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But Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson are not self-indulgent musos. |
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His weak and self-indulgent brother, Seward, followed his every command. |
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It may be schmaltzy and self-indulgent, but you wouldn't expect anything less than a true Hollywood ending. |
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As this self-indulgent trend continues to gain momentum in the Middle East, Dr Vigo said the men in the relationship will likely opt for gynaecomastia surgery and liposuction. |
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