self-indulgence

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self-indulgent
adjective
us/ˌself·ɪnˈdʌl·dʒənt/
allowing yourself to have or do anything you want:
A lot of the poetry is just self-indulgent nonsense.

self-indulgence

noun[ U ]us/ˌself·ɪnˈdʌl·dʒəns/
My parents’ trip to Hawaii was an unusual self-indulgence for them.

Examples of self-indulgent

self-indulgent
It is also sometimes self-indulgent, for example, in its use of non-essential quotation and other too-obvious stylistic flourishes.
This might indicate that he was engaged in individual aesthetic self-absorption in improvisation (sometimes colloquially referred to as being self-indulgent).
It is not self-indulgent as others may have suggested to you.
I think that the perception of a self-indulgent kind of acting was in the air.
In conversation, if rarely in print, historians routinely dismiss literary criticism as self-indulgent, trendy, arbitrary and jargon-ridden.
The notion that verbal creation is somehow more self-indulgent, undisciplined or easy than other forms of creation is false.
Anything that jeopardised this ensnaring of the spectator was discarded asfreddo, self-indulgent or ludicrous.
Acting is too often perceived by society as being a self-indulgent profession, motivated by vanity and greed.
Appendix 2 on human creativity seemed a little self-indulgent although the author noted that he wished to conclude the book in an optimistic spirit.
Thus, far from appearing as annoying busybodies or self-indulgent zealots, puritans on this issue took advantage of a rare opportunity to appear downright sensible.
Their psychological scores suggesting that they were self-indulgent, dependent, overprotected, less well-informed, lacking ambition and operating more on the basis of feelings than thought.
It is difficult to criticise this book given its selfless approach, but the life stories can be rather self-indulgent and can sound insincere.
Moreover, the compromised objectivity previously noted is now displaced further by a form of self-indulgent congratulation.
And still independence and radical autonomy remain central elements in many composers' selfrepresentations, even if they tend nowadays to be less broodingly self-indulgent or stridently polemical.
The comment was meant to point out the self-indulgent nature of the poems and the yea-saying of the poet's friends, who had ceased to be critical.
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