How To Use Indulgent In A Sentence
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This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Orozco-Estrada may have been too indulgent of her slow adagio, but her clear vision of the final rondo again underlined a real artist in the making.
Vienna Tonkünstler/Andrés Orozco-Estrada – review
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Well, the often interesting BSS bunch pandered to the crowd and although they did do some self-indulgent jams, it was all by the book.
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Many respectable scholars flirt with this stage, and some seem to delight in flaunting their embrace of it; their more staid colleagues are usually indulgent.
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Most of us rove in the middle range of self-identification, with an indulgent but generally people-friendly narcissism.
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Grandparents tend to be more indulgent of grandchildren than the parents themselves.
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Buy yourself the swankiest, most outrageous, most indulgent party outfit you can lay your hands on—such as Dolce & Gabbana lace bustier gown £2,690, Net-a-Porter —and go to the party safe in the knowledge that you will be wearing the most amazing outfit there.
The Perfect Party Outfit
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Unfortunately it's weighted down with accretion upon accretion of utterly self-indulgent pomposity.
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He is indulgent about this, but plainly baffled.
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It was an interesting, if self-indulgent speech.
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The self-indulgent can stay alongside the fairways in villas offering butler service and a golf buggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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By night, he toils on his self-indulgent solo art film, obsessively documenting the minutiae of his life while the bigger picture-the growing distance between him and his foxy French lady friend Marlene-eludes him.
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The treatments were truly indulgent and there were complimentary towels and refreshments served while I chilled out in the superb facilities.
The Sun
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It's what every flashpacker really wants: wilderness adventures followed by wildly indulgent spa treatments.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are brilliant at their best, overindulgent and far too twiddly at their worst.
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No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit.
Update
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Some people feel it is rather self-indulgent to reward themselves for making such progress.
Coping with Angina
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It gives us a measure of the indulgent sympathy and religious tolerance which prevailed in this Evangelical home, that the parents should have unhesitatingly supplied the boy of fourteen, at some cost of time and trouble, with all the accessible writings of the "atheistical" poet, and with those of his presumably like-minded friend Keats as well.
Robert Browning
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It felt self-indulgent and a bit embarrassing.
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What might seem like self-indulgent mood swings could be something much more serious and completely outside his control.
The Sun
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His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
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Predictably, the Australian news media has indulged in a frenzy of self-indulgent commentary on the issue.
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After several years of settling for low-fat - and often tasteless - alternatives in the name of health, consumers have decided they deserve something better, something indulgent.
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He had been a strict father but was indulgent to/towards his grandchildren.
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For the truly self-indulgent, Viva Brasil in Genoa Nervi makes custom bikinis to order.
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Odin hefted the axe over his shoulder and smiled indulgently as the boar reached him.
The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
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In the end, I think the nays had it - this was pretty self-indulgent.
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But as Imogen's obsession intensifies, it gets harder and harder not to grow tired of the way everyone caters to her with indulgent credulity.
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Suddenly that pilgrimage to Celtic Park doesn't sound quite so impossibly self-indulgent.
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Sensual and self-indulgent, they will pursue their pleasures as ardently and lustfully as they pursue their professional endeavors.
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The new work is far more prolix, diffuse, and ultimately self-indulgent.
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The emotion is real and affecting, but never maudlin or self-indulgent.
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How can we take without either a shudder or a laugh the abject refusal of Emmathat "imaginist," self-indulgent, independent, charmingly creative and snobbish heroineto call Knightley "George" after they are betrothed: "I never can call you any thing but Mr. Knightley" (III. xvii, 420).
Box Hill and the Limits of Realism
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The monks, who had been easy and indulgent landlords, were succeeded by selfish despots who introduced rack-rent for the tenants and brought them to that pitiable state of serfdom in which the nineteenth century—to the eternal shame of Protestant England!
The Social Order Before and After the Protestant Reformation
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From the barmily romantic ‘Just Like Fred Astaire’ to the anthemic ‘We're Going To Miss You ’, this is indulgent, swaggering and even survives Sinead O'Connor on ‘Vervaceous’.
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She lost herself in indulgent kisses, swimming in the headiness of a boy!
Storytelling. «
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Yes, indulgent parents, there is now such a thing as ‘pampered child syndrome’.
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It's easy to dismiss Peake's visual output as indulgent gothic fantasy; and indeed his images set the tone for so many subsequent cliches of the genre: the emaciated pallor of his somnambulistic protagonists, the obsessive detailing and filigree patterning of his graphic mannerisms, the too easy reliance on grotesque distortions.
This week's new exhibitions
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He was able, thus, to disentangle true catatonia, true hebephrenia and the deteriorating paranoid process, all of which led to a catastrophic outcome, from the benign clinical patterns which were forced into those groups due to an overindulgent criterion.
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For what believer doesn't have the sense that her view of God is too simple, too anthropocentric, too indulgent?
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Such childhood enthusiasm ensured that the novelist later on would have to be punished with our indulgent contempt, before we eventually realized that our loftiness was more contemptible than his confusions.
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This indulgent cashmere travel set from Ralph Lauren is one of many fine items the company is offering this year.
Jane Buckingham: Don't You Love 'Boobies' Too?
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And grant as an indulgent parent that we may hereafter continue to live a harmless and happy life and keep our self-respect.
Christianity Today
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It is not only those who dismiss the arts as self-indulgent who lay themselves open to such a charge.
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Ian preferred moody songwriters who slowly strummed guitars and wallowed self-indulgently in their own impenetrable deepness.
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In short, he was a nephew whose peer could not be found in all Sweden, and who knows whether the piece of linen he chose from the bleachery was the last he received from his indulgent aunt.
The Home in the Valley
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All 10 bedrooms feel indulgent: think tactile fabrics and eyecatching art.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite some overlong and self-indulgent sequences (such as the Japanese nightclub scene), the ambitious multi-country scope is handled well with several noteworthy performances.
2009 May : Scrubbles.net
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The rest is rather indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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You're right,’ she said, humoring him with an indulgent smile.
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Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
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Looking back at my early writing, it really is some dreary, self-indulgent nonsense.
Taking stock « Write Anything
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He is more self-indulgent about his agues, fevers, constipation, and other ills, and goes into detail about the remedies for same.
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There are widespread negative attitudes that adults who are morbidly obese are weak-willed, ugly, awkward, self-indulgent, and immoral.
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the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides
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Yet the museum is quite indulgent towards postmodernist artefacts, displaying them prominently and trumpeting their subversive qualities.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The film is meandering and self-indulgent in places, although the music, images and commentary occasionally combine to create moments of genuine beauty.
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Well, after 20 weeks on the road I'm now about halfway through my journey so, at the risk of being self-indulgent, here goes.
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He was lucky to have a kind and indulgent nanny, but his mother showed him little overt affection.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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Equally, her mother is ambivalently viewed as both adoring protector and indulgent enabler of Lucy's habit.
Knot of the Heart – review
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Citizens of rich countries may be self-centred and self-indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.
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He was lucky to have a kind and indulgent nanny, but his mother showed him little overt affection.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is not a self-indulgent wallow in grief.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Marvel did cancel Cloak and Dagger good for them because now she can devote more time to Vamptopia or whatever other self-indulgent crap she has going on.
Who are the Dark X-Men? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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Cocooned in layers of cotton fluff, I was lead to Mic's living room couch, still leaning into him but for more self-indulgent reasons than balance.
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Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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Alone, Prospero speaks an epilogue, in rhyme, saying that now that he has no magic powers he needs the audience's indulgent applause to free him.
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Indeed, the boy known for ‘always thinking ahead’ could never utter the final sentence in the passage-unless he willfully yielded to the seductions of his father's self-indulgent conceits.
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One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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This self indulgent rambling is intended to explain why I have the following precise recorded version of my first, long ago root beer dream.
Root Beer Dreams: Part I
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I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
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As much as I had hoped for a great farewell, their hour-and-a-half turned into an hour and a half of self-indulgent rock.
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The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish.
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Lender smiled, and it was the indulgent look of a master being asked something obvious by a gifted but untutored apprentice.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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Undoubtedly, there are those who will probably dismiss Adaptation as a load of self-indulgent tosh, or as a smug and overly-clever attempt to poke fun at just about everything.
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If these men had such a king as this, who, while self-indulgent, should lay no severe restraint on them, they would more enthusiastically consecrate to him a temple and a flamen than the ancient Romans did to Romulus.
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Nor were the Charms of her Conversation less amiable than those of her Person: Her indulgent Father, though in his Youth he had lavish'd the best Part of his Patrimony, and had little to depend on but what accrued from a Post he held at Court, was now so good a Husband in other Things, as to afford her a very liberal Education.
The Fatal Secret: or, Constancy in Distress
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Snooki's extramural activities have included participation in a tag-team bout on Wrestlemania (her team won) and a minor conviction (fine, community service) for being, in the words of the judge, "rude, profane, obnoxious, and self-indulgent" on a public beach when drunk.
Other Comments
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The personality is trusting and trustworthy, indulgent and generous to itself and others.
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In the meantime, he is an indulgent father.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those self indulgent dour as ditchwater lefties actually do believe that god is on their side.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Surely a book's narrative should suffice to make its point, instead of relying on this self-indulgent twaddle?
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony.
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It's easy to become an indulgent parent, letting examples of disrespect slide.
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His demeanor suddenly changed from gentle, indulgent parent, to barking hellion.
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By Ange, at 4/24/2006 10:24:00 AM glad to see you enjoyed them and found them just as indulgent. more cherries would have made for a "wetter" batter ... so yah more baking time required. were you able to get them back in the oven for more baking time?
Chocolate Cherry Brownies
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Too much is self-indulgent, frustratingly inconsistent and coasting on former glories.
The Sun
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I am going to be incredibly self-indulgent that day and light one hundred candles just to spite you.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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This long weekend will see a nation boss-eyed with self-indulgent excitement, hooked on the dangerous drug of royal nostalgia.
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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There's something downright self-indulgent, hedonistic, even sybaritic about this fine weather.
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He belonged to the noble or warrior caste and is depicted as wealthy and indulgent towards his son.
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Without any knowledge of history, he was somehow able through his natural ruttishness to reinvent the complex and indulgent habits of an Eastern potentate, one of those Ottoman pashas, right down to holding court halfnaked in his sumptuous bedroom.
Beard
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Or go crazy and use it in the shower as an indulgent washing gel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.
The Slow Crack-Up
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There he stood, nine years of age, blinking up indulgently at his galoot of a father speaking at him in tongues.
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Sometimes I think it truly self-centred and self-indulgent to believe that you hold an opinion that so many people could be interested in.
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I'm going to be self-indulgent and self-pitying.
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Wealthy consumers today want something sexier, more indulgent, which is why BMW and Mercedes have done well.
BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
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How could Kentucky ever have been anything but a peaceful paradise of bluegrass fields where thoroughbred horses frolicked under the indulgent gaze of mint-julep-sipping colonels?
Behind the Bluegrass
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Some may find that he is a little too indulgent towards the hot-headed young man and fails to give sufficient space to other voices.
The Times Literary Supplement
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If you're really feeling indulgent, try the "Gourmet Sandwich," which includes paté, a French-style cured ham called jambon, a couple of different kinds of cured pork, and peppered ham.
Austinist
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His counterpart was a short, compact man, obviously in the type of shape and trim that came from self-indulgent working out.
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Should I be congratulated for being a self-indulgent hedonist?
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Jill McCall, brand manager at Cadbury, is careful to point out the difference between the indulgent, feminine bars (Flake, Galaxy) and the masculine "hunger bars" (Boost, Snickers), which are nut-filled and huge, and fill you up rather than provide a girlish "treat", thereby creating markets within markets.
The truth about men, women and food
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His demeanor suddenly changed from gentle, indulgent parent, to barking hellion.
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I've already been rather self-indulgent and included not one but two of his singles in my earlier listing, but that's not going to put me off telling you more about this album.
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We are strongly advising that one indulgent treat is fine but you don't eat four or five packets.
Times, Sunday Times
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While inevitably self-indulgent and infuriating in parts, it is also smart and surprising.
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This may account for the resultant lack of focus and indulgent tone that manifests itself in the majority of the pieces.
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They have to be careful not to get too sulky about parts of a project that are in the end self-indulgent.
David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
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The play is set at a time when an indulgent old order was elbowed aside by brash, pragmatic modernisers, a process so widely witnessed in the past century that it has always seemed relevant.
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Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
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Where she is indulgent and adventurous, I am cheap, practical and something of a homebody.
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The mere thought of bringing up 10 children is likely to strike fear into even the most indulgent and energetic parent.
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Such self-indulgent interludes succeeded only in dampening crowd excitement.
Times, Sunday Times
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The self-indulgent can stay alongside the fairways in villas offering butler service and a golf buggy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Extravagant, self-indulgent and impulsive, the teenage King led a very glamorous, lavish lifestyle.
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That's why the "underbook" of My Sister, My Love is intentionally tedious, confusing, and self-indulgent, while the main narrative, "mere storytelling" though it may be, gets better and better.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: What We Talk About When We Talk About JonBenet
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Devotion to the Muses, that wiser Princes Patron the Arts, and carry an indulgent aspect unto Scholars; but a desire to have their names eternized by the memory of their writings, and a fear of the revengeful Pen of succeeding ages; for these are the men, that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out and give the moral of their
Religio Medici
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Thick tournedos sliced horizontally in three, layered with caramelized onions, they did look like incredibly indulgent burgers.
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In these days of self-indulgent faddism, a scrupulous hostess should ask about dietary requirements in advance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, all they do is thicken the atmosphere of self - indulgent waywardness that has suffused the book by the time she reaches her Howard's end.
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It's a fairly meaningless, if archaic piece of self-indulgent flummery in most parts of Australia.
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It sometimes reads like the most self-indulgent and maundering commonplace book, pregnant with ideas and jottings, their author unwilling or unable to develop them cogently.
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And it is, perhaps, the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection, and betraying that imperfection in every touch, indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
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It seemed like an appropriately indulgent thing to do on holiday - they promoted it as nontoxic and safe.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a rather indulgent affair that includes foie gras, smoked salmon, oysters and lobster.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was far too indulgent of players' transgressions and inevitably an element of indiscipline crept into the play.
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I'd sooner say it's "credulous" and "indulgent." posted by Eric 8: 47 PM |
IsThatLegal?
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This brings support to the idea that the consumption patterns of French-Canadians are more hedonistic and self-indulgent.
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I fell into a depression that might be called self-indulgent but was real just the same.
Born Standing Up
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To prevent Burnt Sugar's music from devolving into self-indulgent jam band territory, early in the group's development Tate began using conduction, a system of baton gestures devised by Butch Morris.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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Celebrity worship may be simple-minded, self-indulgent and craven, but heads of state should not expect to get off so lightly.
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I believe Alanis changed her look and persona to boost flagging record sales and a Grammy snub in 2002, by embracing nouveau punk and releasing a pop radio friendly, non self-indulgent record that very year under a pseudonym.
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If you do end up with odd scraps of cheese (and booze) the best way to use them up is to make the ridiculously indulgent French cheese spread called fromage fort which simply involves whizzing up stray ends of cheese in a food processor with a little white wine, a dash of brandy or grappa and a good grind of black pepper and voilà - a cheese paté you can use to spread on crostini (aka toast).
The Guardian World News
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If one was to see such quality in coursework offered by sixth form pupils, though, one would smile indulgently and take the time out to correct it.
Before defeat becomes a rout
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But technical proficiency does not equal good music, nor does it prevent that music from being boring, from being bloated, self-indulgent twaddle.
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For those who don't feel like it, there are also a few less healthy but indulgent choices.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know it's self-indulgent of me, but I'll just have another chocolate.
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There is something rather indulgent about being able to lay outstretched in your kitchen.
Times, Sunday Times
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The snobbery was in keeping with the times and provoked indulgent smiles.
FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
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Further, the God whom they worshipped with the superb and heart-searching language of an earlier age was now conceived either as a just but jealous employer or as an indulgent parent, or else as sheer physical energy.
Their puzzling devoutness
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Brunner once looked on like an indulgent pledge master as his team spent weeks bombarding one another with flying rubber rings.
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Physical punishment is administered, although parents tend to be indulgent with young children.
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Overall, everyone's favourite self-indulgent superpower hasn't budged an inch.
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The survey focused on its most indulgent products and the findings contained inaccuracies.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are still people who would go for a cool understated chic, and in our time of personally indulgent dressing this is probably the time to do it.
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All 10 bedrooms feel indulgent: think tactile fabrics and eyecatching art.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we had not let enter the stupid concept of some white knight in shinning armor coming to take us to the promise land expecting an escape from all the evils. maybe we could have comprehended the consequences of our indulgent behavior before now.
Pious Atheism « Anglican Samizdat
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But some spas feature treatments that are more than just indulgent; they also help relieve a host of common health problems, all in a setting that's calming and comforting.
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Creamy Brie, buttery croissants, indulgent pastries are just part of the French paradox.
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On Friday, though, for all its colour, flair and energy, his playing was often incoherent, self-indulgent and slam-bang crass.
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Whether you enjoy show tunes, film spoofs or self-indulgent explorations of the artist's life - or if you simply want to stalk TV stars - read on.
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That she will rejoice the most indulgent of pa-rents and the most affectionate of brothers, with a cheerful aspect at table, especially before the pa-triarch.
Sir Charles Grandison
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The theme of overindulgent polygamy writ large in the text was de-emphasised whereas the fertility motif symbolised in the Dohada ritual was pronounced.
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The voice-over commentary covers his thoughts, a technique that can be dangerously indulgent.
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They see it as either indulgent (weak and hence immoral) or as patronizing.
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SO, we're getting into brunch action this weekend with a slightly more indulgent offering.
The Sun
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One can only guess at how wealthy McGuckian is and direct attempts to elicit this information are met with gently indulgent verbal sidesteps.
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It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…
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Dr. Peschel places particular stress on this circumstance, and alludes to the habit of over-indulgent parents among refined nations of conforming to the humours of their children by conversing with them in a kind of infantine language, until they are several years old.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
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She writes a tedious and self-indulgent column for a Sunday paper.
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Creamy Brie, buttery croissants, indulgent pastries are just part of the French paradox.
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She is such a virago, so self-centred, and even self-indulgent that she seems to care for nothing except her own career.
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This is autobiography, and since when have we been worried about autobiography being indulgent?
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A biographer should be sympathetic; not blind, not indulgent, but _sympathetic_.
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
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Possibly, this sympathy could appear somewhat self-indulgent, or over-dramatic, if not actually absurdly histrionic.
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For instance, if you follow a subfigure in your eye, you module be blind, bleeding, in nonindulgent pain and making a disorderliness of your experience area in no time.
LXer Linux News
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Clearly I had passed what Mr. Brown calls my "self-indulgent foodism" down to my two-year-old.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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This is a darker and more indulgent variation of my favourite basic muffin recipe.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm selfish, egotistical and self-indulgent, but not so much so that I cannot recognise the times when my selfish occupations need to be subordinated to the common good.
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For a totally indulgent treat, it is hard to beat a good old-fashioned bubble bath.
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The Englishman quits this life proudly and disdainfully when the whim takes him, but the Roman must have an indulgentia in articulo mortis; he can neither live nor die.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Wow, managing to wedge a piece of Einstein's special theory of relativity into some particularly indulgent navel-gazing.
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They've become more personally assertive, more sexually aggressive, and less willing to put up with self-indulgent bullshit from their men.
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They have self-indulgent little rows, as they did over grammar schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever the ingredients, sundaes at their best are unrepentantly indulgent.
Times, Sunday Times
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What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become.
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So long as big and dumb does not slide into boring, self-indulgent and humorless, I am there.
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Her early books focused mostly on chocolate; in her 1994 "Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts," she developed lower-calorie recipes for indulgent-tasting chocolate mousse, poundcake and cheesecake.
It's All About Hitting the Sweet Spot
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However, I choked on my breakfast cereal at the facile, almost comical self-indulgent tripe in the second half of the piece.
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I can imagine other readers who would find it more profound than I do, as well as those who might dismiss it out of hand as just more self-indulgent blarney.
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So just why are we so indulgent toward those anything-goes plays?
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This film is too flat and uninvolving to deserve a term like indulgent.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Three: A Pope, A Pianist, A Philogoist and More!
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My mother was back - eight months with me and another five back home, and she had returned like the prodigal, no longer self-indulgent in her grief.
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It's a laid-back, slightly quirky Egyptian town, with an economy that runs on diving and an unusually large population of cats and dogs, fed by indulgent Europeans.
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Alkan rarely compromises the logic of his counterpoint, and a similar inflexibility was noted in his playing, which avoided the indulgent rubato of many of his contemporaries.
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His womenswear sets razor-sharp tailoring against indulgently romantic dresses formed from layers of fragile chiffon.
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I would ask for your forgiveness if I felt I had been indulgent here, but I don't.
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Touted as “indulgent comfort sweets” these divine pieces of chocolaty, gooey, nutty goodness are individually wrapped in crave-size portions.
GBK Productions Gives Back at their 2007 MTV Gifting Suite
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It is thoughtless, it is self-indulgent and it undermines the standards which all right-minded people support.
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Dante stands in no class at all, nor does Milton, nor does Shelley; and though Shakespeare indulgently permits himself to be classed as an "Elizabethan dramatist," what strikes true critics most is again hardly more his "betterness" than his difference.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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His indulgent mother was willing to let him do anything he wanted.
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On Blossom, another deserted daughter is similarly disgusted with her indulgent mother.
Mothers who Leave
