How to Use self-indulgence in a Sentence

self-indulgence

noun
  • For the first time, there’s self-indulgence, tenderness.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Shocking self-indulgence sits cheek by jowl with self-denial.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • To spend time with books and beetles in wildflower country seemed the pinnacle of self-indulgence.
    — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Today the big businesses of self-care and self-indulgence fill the infinite space of the digital kingdom.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The colorful outfits exude the wacky self-indulgence that comes through in his work, which makes sense: His personal aesthetic has always been part of the shtick.
    — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • But Cowboy Carter’s greatest gift is its self-indulgence, when Beyoncé plays against typecasting and the rules made for her and, sometimes, by her.
    — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Crafted by a team of expert perfumers, the fragrance was shaped by global trends and shifting consumer moods, like the growing desire for self-indulgence and self-control.
    — Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Our collection brims with items curated to cater to every whim, whether gifting joy or a little self-indulgence.
    — Kristi Arnold, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • So many promising attacks and dangerous free kicks are sacrificed at the altar of self-indulgence.
    — Oliver Kay, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
  • This is a beautiful collection, full of Link’s hypnotic prose and flights of fancy that never come close to approaching twee self-indulgence.
    — Michael Schaub, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His single-minded pursuit of his art and his callous self-indulgence lead one of them to madness, another to self-mutilation and an early demise.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Eyewear, fragrances and cosmetics are on the rise, as consumer embrace these categories as a form of self-indulgence amid inflation.
    — Sofia Celeste, WWD, 18 June 2024
  • Or would that simply be self-indulgence, detracting from my message of gratitude?
    — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • But their self-indulgence does make for pretty fun television, thanks to an ensemble strong enough to overcome sometimes uneven writing.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Anastasia Berg Jerusalem Oyler paints a picture of desperate narcissism among the spoiled classes who seek fulfillment and self-indulgence under the mantra of wellness.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Piersall’s brief moment of self-indulgence back then was but a blip compared with the massive inundation of incivility we’re all subjected to these days.
    — Kenneth Lasson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • In place of Buffett’s hazy pairing of self-indulgence and deprecation, Chesney offers a manifesto.
    — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
  • After reading about these lobbyists’ lavish spending, self-indulgence and outright frauds, their ensuing downfalls (in most cases) come as a not-so-guilty pleasure.
    — James B. Stewart, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • That picture reflects the hotel’s contemporary twist on Wilde’s tale of decadence and self-indulgence by offering guests an unusual and anonymous way to admit to their past transgressions.
    — Carolyn B. Heller, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024
  • In the past, Drake would couch this sort of self-indulgence and acidity between unimpeachable pop hits, impassioned freestyles, and playful genre experimentations.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Without that check, conviction is prone to self-indulgence and failure—a combination bad enough for any campaign, and potentially catastrophic given the stakes of this one.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 July 2024
  • With that victory, however, came overconfidence and self-indulgence, and in recent years the NRA has been mired in distracting controversy.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • When did such a holiday that used to connect families and communities become a night of opportunistic self-indulgence?
    — Faith Barton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Its self-lacerating melancholia never dips into self-indulgence, instead digging into the shades of gray that define a person’s bleakest days.
    — Maura Johnston, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Looking after your physical well-being isn’t self-indulgence.
    — Rachel Wilkerson Miller, SELF, 1 Jan. 2024
  • The problem with last year’s films — the frustration and alienation that many viewers felt but couldn’t quite articulate — was a lack of discipline that was less a matter of unfettered artistic expression than self-indulgence and incoherence.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Getting a lot of sleep is virtuous (wellness, leisure) and also objectionable (self-indulgence, indolence).
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The result is a six-episode hothouse in which Weisz’s performance as two physically indistinguishable characters in the same story could have easily tipped into self-indulgence.
    — Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • God-fearing women who never succumbed to self-indulgence, sloth, or selfishness were naturally beautiful.
    — airmail.news, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and an almost sheepish gentleness.
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 28 Mar. 2024

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