This funny, if very indulgent, follow-up is directed by Adam McKay and co-written by him and its star Will Ferrell.
The cover now shouts the editors' selection of the most important review of the week (a choice I would just as soon make for myself), which is further expounded upon in the loud and self-indulgent Up Front column.
Ironically, had the Tories been a more effective opposition these turf wars might have been seen as self-indulgent punch-ups rather than the fight to the death that they became.
Ironically, had the Tories been a more effective opposition these turf wars might have been seen as self-indulgent punch-ups rather than the fight to the death which they became".
A monologue in which a man laments his bad luck with women sounds like a bad night at Caroline's; it's the stuff of self-indulgent stand-up, a recipe for a misguided performer to present his utterly ordinary experience as extraordinary.
It could even be, the wily General Musharraf may be dreaming, a reprise of cold-war days, when an indulgent United States backed up Pakistan for the sake of defeating a common enemy in Afghanistan.
AGAINST the backdrop of Middle East negotiations, troubles in Iraq and the constant threat of terrorism, a leak from the new memoir by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton somehow seemed a little out of sync, a time capsule from an indulgent age dug up in an era with more serious things on its mind.
Barry is charming, effusive, childishly excited about being in Rome: keeping his indulgent hosts up late talking and drinking, boring them all with his reminscences of working with Kubrick, whose demands led him to miss the birth of his son.
Backstory: Famous actor prone to self-indulgent projects teams up with film composer Tim O'Keefe (his old art school buddy, naturally) and Smiths bassist Andy Rourke (which is actually pretty cool).
But by the 1940s he was in his towering maestro mode, determined to clean up the indulgent mess, as he saw it, that had come to be considered the Italian opera style.
A new ban against smoking on many Italian trains took effect on Monday and became the latest example of Western Europe's less indulgent attitudes toward lighting up in public.
