"A reaction against greed, excess, waste, tax cheating and selfish, self-indulgent behavior".
Reuland, an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, would never get away with his hero's self-indulgent behavior if he weren't such a daring writer.
But I'd discovered that having race ambitions gave a patina of respectability to what in fact was exceedingly self-indulgent behavior.
And given that fact, the last thing we need is the kind of self-indulgent behavior he showed by lashing out at progressives who he feels aren't giving him enough credit.
Chinese fed up with self-indulgent behavior by officials often post photographs on the Internet of bureaucrats being chauffeured around in black Audis, buying Louis Vuitton handbags for wives or mistresses and playing golf or strolling on beaches.
Eventually, Dex's doughy sheepishness and his attempt to elevate his self-indulgent behavior by mixing in European philosophy along with Hollywood Boulevard icons feels a bit like a conceit.
Amir, a Pakistani married to a white painter named Emily (played with no energy and no imagination by Gretchen Mol), whose biggest artistic influence is Islamic art, may just be a creep — perceived racial slights and his internalized racially influenced self-hatred can't excuse his poor, self-indulgent behavior.
Bundling up the most outrageous demands and self-indulgent behavior of this egocentric tribe into one over-the-top caricature, Hiaasen presents us with Cherry Pye, a 22-year-old pop star whose every display of narcissistic excess will send a frisson of horrified delight up your spine.
From Ms. Volpe's quartet, though, we get only a few vague and unconvincing allusions to abusive childhoods to explain their choices — because, after all, self-destructive, self-indulgent behavior must be blamed on someone other than the person engaging in it, and good ol' Mom or Stepdad or whoever is the easiest shorthand there is.
In fact, corporate philanthropy may often be the result of the self-indulgent behavior of managers masquerading as CSR.
