Self-indulgent Sentence Examples

In modern slavery, on the other hand, where the occupations of both parties were industrial, the existence of a servile class only guaranteed for some of them the possibility of self-indulgent ease, whilst it imposed on others the necessity of indigent idleness.

According to this authority Jovinian in 388 was living at Rome the celibate life of an ascetic monk, possessed a good acquaintance with the Bible, and was the author of several minor works, but, undergoing an heretical change of view, afterwards became a self-indulgent Epicurean and unrefined sensualist.

After the captivity and death of Valerian, Gallienus succeeded to a merely nominal rule in the East, and was too careless and self-indulgent to take any active measures to recover the lost provinces.

Thus, at the age of three-and-thirty, this naturally indolent and self-indulgent woman, with little knowledge and no experience of affairs, suddenly found herself at the head of a great empire at one of the most critical periods of its existence.

But he was extravagant and self-indulgent, and he wanted more money than they were willing to supply.

He is accused of having sunk in his later years into the self-indulgent habits of the harem.

It's a $ 150 million self indulgent ode to the era of computer generated imagery (CGI ).

He was of a somewhat voluptuous and self-indulgent temperament, which shrark from danger and active exertion.

Weak, self-indulgent, improvident, he had pursued a policy of opportunism to a fatal conclusion.

He accused himself, with the other clergy, of lax and self-indulgent living.

The medicine is so simple in application and so easily available that it is served out almost automatically and indifferently, to every law-breaker; the pickpocket and the burglar are locked up next door to the clergyman at variance with his bishop; the weak-kneed and self-indulgent drunkard rubs shoulders with the political zealot who has endangered the peace of nations.

His unfussy approach allowed each moment to carry the necessary weight and was never self indulgent.

Long self indulgent wailing guitar solos became a thing of the past.

Johansson equally moves us with a character who in lesser hands could 've come off as a whiny, self-indulgent brat.

Frankly, it felt self indulgent in a bizarre way.