It has a lazy, self-indulgent air that includes walk-ons for whatever celebrity Apatow met at dinner the night before shooting.
The treatments range from the indulgent (an open-air massage amid scented plants) to the muscular-skeletally rigorous.
Mr. Buckingham, with his extravagant gestures, indulgent guitar playing and general air of preening, was trying very hard to keep a flickering flame alive — a panting salesman.
Mrs Thatcher had "an air of resignation about it all, but was indulgent towards Mark", he added.
Its value depends on how much you enjoy puzzles – and whether you feel indulgent towards actors gamely striving to keep preposterous storylines in the air.
Xan Brooks of The Guardian wrote, "Roman Polanski has rustled up a pitch-black farce of the charmless bourgeoisie that is indulgent, actorly and so unbearably tense I found myself gulping for air and praying for release".
Evidence had been led in the trial showing Pistorius to be an argumentative, self-indulgent, rude, ill-tempered, jealous and spoilt man who fires guns in the air and believes women are possessions.
A session of indulgent scaremongering follows, including a breathless disaster-movie scenario, wherein cyberterrorists take control of American air-traffic control systems and send planes crashing into buildings, shutting down power grids and launching nuclear weapons.
This is a very long and self indulgent way of saying that I was at Melt!, one of the biggest and best loved open air festivals in Germany.
Café Ekberg (cafeekberg.fi) has an air of faded gentility, but there's nothing retiring about the customers or banks of blowsy, indulgent specialties – sticky sponge champagne corks, millefeuilles, apple meringues.
An hour or two of Shawn's dark and outrageous imagination might have been a breath of fresh air, but three and a half hours of witty descriptions of weird sexual exploits feels self-indulgent and, dare we say, masturbatory.
