self-indulgence
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Jobs may have been a leading preacher of Silicon Valley’s gospel of failure as a steppingstone to success, but his own self-indulgence nearly turned NeXT into a trek to nowhere.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The level of artistic self-indulgence on display is impressive.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
Maybe it's because keeping track of my own emotions has always felt like an exercise in self-indulgence.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025
Accompanied by a string quartet, it seems, by that point, less like theatrical excavation than self-indulgence.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
In defending these new standards, David Coleman, president of the College Board and one of the architects of the Common Core, seemed to equate reading and writing that is not purely fact-based with self-indulgence.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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