Example Sentences

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But what sets apart is its tone—a seemingly impossible blend of savage self-satire and blissfully oblivious self-enjoyment.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2013

It’s a remarkably unsentimental performance, free of actressy self-enjoyment: Kelli is no noble martyred war hero but a troubled woman who can be self-pitying, ungrateful, and infuriatingly passive.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012

"You wanted self-enjoyment; you wanted a happy life; you wanted to live only for yourself—" "What is self-enjoyment?"

From Liza "A nest of nobles" by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden

Notwithstanding his great fortune and position, his departure from the university was not a signal with him for that abandonment to the world, and that unbounded self-enjoyment naturally so tempting to youth.

From Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He has pictured the Weltschmerz of his age; and without morbid self-enjoyment.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James