The French trapper is represented as a lighter, softer, more
self-indulgent kind of man.
His face was weak and
self-indulgent. Aunt Louisa took him in her arms and kissed him; and tears of happiness flowed down her cheeks.
A man of genius, of an ardent temperament, reckless of physical laws,
self-indulgent, becomes presently unfortunate, querulous, a "discomfortable cousin," a thorn to himself and to others.
He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more
self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite-hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too--not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling.
"Doubtless; but I fear that my young relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly determined in his aversion to these callings by a dislike to steady application, and to that kind of acquirement which is needful instrumentally, but is not charming or immediately inviting to
self-indulgent taste.
I hope it is not
self-indulgent to shed these tears as I think of it.
Clare was good-natured and
self-indulgent, and sought to buy off with presents and flatteries; and when Marie became mother to a beautiful daughter, he really felt awakened, for a time, to something like tenderness.
Seen from the front he looked like a mild,
self-indulgent bachelor, with rooms in the Albany--which he was.
You have been most
self-indulgent. I can't get over it.
Judge Jonathan Gosling jailed her, telling her that she was guilty of a "
self-indulgent act of exhibitionism".
Self-indulgent Ant should be ashamed SO Ant McPartlin did not turn up at court for a preliminary hearing regarding his divorce.
But Twitter users described Madonna as "
self-indulgent," with one writing: "D.I.S.R.E.S.P.E.C.T."