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Sentence Examples If we had, we would not treat blatant apologists for the Soviet Union with fond indulgence and even respect. To be able to look at childhood fantasies with indulgence and optimism is a lot about recognising the child in all of us. Basically if you knew that you had sinned you would wait until a pardoner was in your region selling an indulgence and purchase one. At 67 minutes, It may seem a little long, but there's such a surfeit of grooviness you can forgive the odd indulgence. It is merely intended as an indulgence offered by the lender to the borrower. When money ran out, they were the only ones working on their land not grudging their son's indulgence in the newfound joys of matrimony. It was an indulgence of high spirits or, at worst, a vulgar exhibit of personal vanity and artistic vacuity. Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice. Ape mothers nurse their babies for several years, and during this period they are protective and attentive to the point of indulgence. So the shop opened in dreary February, when indulgence isn't on many minds. As with most medieval societies, meat was a luxury, enjoyed only as an occasional indulgence. I saw therapy as an indulgence, a luxury I couldn't afford, and the idea of antidepressants frightened me. The overall impression of the early rooms is of a sybaritic indulgence which echoes the richness and confidence of Venetian Renaissance society. And we will have contributed a good deal of pain, cruelty and selfish indulgence to the karma of the universe. If this is indulgence, then indulge me, because I'm impressed and fascinated. First and foremost, Antony writes for himself, but this it is no selfish indulgence. The city of indulgence and excess will be this summer's location for the largest annual scientific forum and food technology exposition. Many items came complete with copper food warmers, and the entire evening was one of indulgence. I think this neglect of graphic design as a serious discipline is the fact that it is seen mainly as based on aesthetic indulgence. King is indulging his imagination, and we have to indulge his indulgence if we're going to enjoy this. Show More Sentences This post is a sad observation inspired by what I find to be excessive indulgence in predictory politics in the previous post in this weblog. Students showed a greater disposition to disclose indulgence in these behaviors to peers and others outside the family than to those within it. Crane stood under the shower head and allowed himself the small indulgence of simply standing in the steaming water as it cascaded over him. Then he moved back in with his mother, sealing his fate and cementing his status as parasite and waster of indulgence and advantage. It's often perceived as an aristocratic indulgence, a sport for toffs and the idle rich. Is this writing, then, some kind of solipsistic indulgence conducted purely for your own benefit? But the mood is not one of back-slapping indulgence and self-congratulation. The US had once looked upon Japanese ambitions with a level of sympathy, even indulgence. The Celts were characterized by quarrelsomeness, both within the tribe and in their indulgence in inter-tribal warfare. Apart from wealthy old men and executives it's not much of a hedonist indulgence but a matter of actual need. It is an immoral indulgence to wallow in romantic pessimism or warmed-over Stoicism. My characters and I share a similar esteem for the middle-ground, between indulgence and obligation, and any extremes of the spectrum. Stag and hen nights have become weekends and even whole weeks of debauchery and indulgence. This is my first camera with a decent macro, so please forgive my temporary indulgence with this feature. Soulless indulgence, on top of a loss of confidence, had taken deep root, and this frightened loyalists most of all. An indulgence was a papal document that granted the buyer remission from the need to do penance for his sins. It started with a back massage that loosened up my taut muscles and prepared me for the ultimate indulgence of letting go. Because we've grown accustomed to films that relate plot telegraphically, this extended scene may feel like a tedious indulgence. But she says these are special occasion indulgence pieces, not necessarily suitable for doing the weekly shop or walking the dog. In food matters they sought to maintain an equilibrium between abstinence and indulgence. Show More Sentences It is a novel about tension between duty and responsibility on the one hand and hedonism and indulgence on the other. At the height of the indulgence sale, Martin Luther, an Augustinian friar from Germany, traveled to Rome and was shocked by what he saw. The new restaurant is a great success and allows her to continue her indulgence of the increasingly greedy and self-absorbed Veda. But the camp performer always knows that he is being sentimental and enjoys the indulgence. I am reinforced in my self indulgence by the attitude of another lapsed vegetarian friend. Tasmanian logging is wholly dependent on a degree of government indulgence unknown elsewhere in the developed world. And any sweet or spicy taste puts you in a relaxed, pampered state of mind, ready for further indulgence. It's understood as a mark of educated cultivation, not wilful indulgence or evasion. Many people associate mental illness with self indulgence, weakness, and malingering. I'm blindingly exhausted, and I'm not thinking cleverly enough to ask your indulgence as a writer. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. Top of the list was a positive mental attitude including the occasional indulgence in her favourite gin and tonic and unfiltered cigarette. The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar. To the world and to herself, she was a no-nonsense, practical woman who scoffed at indulgence and spurned luxury. Theirs was a complex relationship, alternating between filial indulgence and collegial rivalry. What does a triviality like that matter compared to my indulgence of hatred? A plenary indulgence may be gained each day up to and including November 8th, by visiting a cemetery and there praying for the holy souls and the Pope's intentions. It was also noted that none of the prisoners had any private law right which he could have pursued, since remission of sentence was not a right but an indulgence. Done in moderation it was apparently an indulgence, like chewing gum or tobacco and had possibly developed as a means of allaying hunger in times of famine. Therefore I seek your indulgence to allow me to lament my grief. Show More Sentences Those of a sanguine constitution, those weakened by famine or those who indulged in hot baths, excessive exercise, work or sexual indulgence were particularly vulnerable. For pure indulgence she liked milky, liberally sugared tea and rich cocoa. Three years ago, she moved to New Orleans, where, she says, she encountered a great culture of indulgence. But even still, that little sip of indulgence from a mug or a glass tastes almost just as sweet. The indulgence, however, does not apply to sins that have not yet been committed. Jill also admitted to her past indulgence in the substance at a Led Zeppelin concert. Those who made a pilgrimage to pray to the relic were given a 10-year indulgence. Yet such indulgence is often the way, as people laugh off alcoholic excess while working themselves into a righteous moral lather over something smelly in a cigarette. In Canada, the herb has become a mainstream recreational indulgence for everyone from bored petroleum engineers to stressed-out public relations flacks. The indulgence was a consequence of the context, of the avowed project. A third is the continued appeal of indulgence, even in this age of nutritional labeling and increasingly aggressive fat police. The bathroom is filled with soothing, perfumed unguents, strangely shaped tools for massage, oils, candles, a luxury indulgence which can only be matched by Harrods! However, there is one big positive amid this orgy of self indulgence. A demonstration of vulnerability can become, in the blink of an eye, an indulgence or exercise in self-regard and, soon after that, an entrapment in fraudulence. It's a bit of an indulgence and cost a packet, but I like it. It is, in fact, an exceptionally charming story, and even hard-hearted churls will find themselves smiling with beatific indulgence by the end of it. She admits to the odd bout of boozy indulgence like the rest of us. The prospect of yet more exploitative taxes to support reproducer indulgence means that a questioning of the bio-political privileging of natality is long overdue. We are in the era of guarded opulence and while heads are rolling in town, a certain level of indulgence continues to continue in Napoleon's France. Indeed, as Richard points out, the plenary indulgence first given to the Crusaders soon ceased to be the primary motive for undertaking a Crusade. Show More Sentences Here at home, the coffee flows in a ceaseless flood of lattes and frappuccinos, tidily iced and foamed and dolloped into a maelstrom of liquid indulgence. She would never let him get away with such indulgence in self-pity. It might not be the most impressive show in the festival, but it's precisely the sort of experimental, self-regarding indulgence that I'd expect in Venice. The very measures that are supposed to protect our young people from over indulgence of self-abuse habits are in fact the lures that draw them into it. So the starting point of the law is an essentially agnostic view of religious beliefs and a tolerant indulgence to religious and cultural diversity. But often there's a slightly patronising tone, a hint of indulgence. It is important that we go to confession and receive Holy Communion, attend Mass and visit the cemetery to gain a plenary indulgence for the Holy Souls. For our anniversary we allowed ourselves the indulgence of an elegant dinner at our favorite restaurant. A roaring fire inspires lovers and poets, but it's a costly indulgence. The rich gave themselves over to the most excessive indulgence and the poor knew no other desire than to be able to participate, ever so modestly, in that indulgence. He has the pale, pasty set of the sedentary, a fleshy padding of indulgence and a deep, broad accent with an odd similarity to that of Charles Kennedy. The dogs are a reminder that the three friends were also keen sportsmen, and this journey would have provided them ample opportunities for indulgence. Grab your swimsuits and get ready for a day of decadent indulgence. With the 'forgotten fruit' flavours of rosehip, quince and sloeberry, for example, manufacturers can tap into the trend for nostalgic indulgence. In The Wrongs of Woman the heroine's indulgence on romantic fantasies fostered by novels themselves is depicted as particularly detrimental. To this day, I notice myself treating the memory and tradition of the USSR with an indulgence and tenderness. Scientists have long been complaining against human indulgence in certain chemicals which damage the ozone layer. The members of the Goncourt committee repaid the indulgence of the author and his hero in kind with indulgence for this implausibility. It's a chic moment, an indulgence, which is very much how French women view patisseries. They err, that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less. Show More Sentences This is followed by Petto di pollo in crosta di erbe, and as a sophisticated indulgence, the Crostata di fragile al balsamico for dessert. Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening. Horace wrote that during his time flower gardens became a national indulgence. The Victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which Keats was posthumously fitted. This was the last indulgence she was permitted. It was meant to soften the severing of all connections with her maika. Bunyan was freed in May 1672 and immediately obtained a licence to preach under the declaration of indulgence. Foreigners, soldiers and merchants, threw off all restraint in the indulgence of their passions. We have confirmation he was certainly dead by 1502, from the record of an indulgence for his soul paid for by his widow. It is average at best and hawked like it is the ultimate indulgence. Within the diocese of Constance, Bernhardin Sanson was offering a special indulgence for contributors to the building of St Peter's in Rome. I humbly crave your indulgence to read this letter until the end. The author too keenly feels that he has no further claims than these, and he therefore most diffidently asks for his work the indulgence of his readers. For Vegas-level indulgence, the foie gras degustation serves three preparations of foie, with variations in presentation, texture, and layers of flavors. However, this theory, though regarded with certain indulgence by Henry Yule and some modern Georgian historians, was summarily dismissed by Friedrich Zarncke. Some Muslims began to question the piety of indulgence in a worldly life and emphasized poverty, humility and avoidance of sin based on renunciation of bodily desires. Disparaging commentary about one's country of birth unavoidably causes some uneasiness in a reader, since it is vaguely suggestive of indulgence in flagellantism. Peter's Basilica was indulgenced and that one priest, John Tetzel, a preacher of this indulgence, promised an easy path to salvation, but this was not approved by the Church. The attack on bourgeois veniality and indulgence is launched by Anzor. Examples from Classical Literature The scandalmonger, inhibited from doing the forbidden thing, enjoys himself by a vicarious indulgence in rottenness. In her judgment a laugh was indecorum, and smelling a rose was indulgence of the flesh. Guy Faux was to be treated with an indulgence which was not to be extended to a shoplifter. The Pope would recover his annates, his Peter's pence, and his indulgence market. He had received the opening words with satisfaction, not untinctured by the mild, patronising indulgence we show to children. I now mingled in the sports and pastimes of the people, until indulgence in them became the predominant passion of Mv youth. One reason why the offspring suffer is that the seminal fluid deteriorates very rapidly by repeated indulgence. To her well-wishers it seemed as if the people had given itself to sloth and indulgence. He intreats that the indulgence prayed for by the learned Cowell may be accorded to his humble efforts. For all indulgence in wine and coffee and tobacco you will have a bill to pay. The too liberal or long-continued indulgence in kawa seems to generate a peculiar 570cuticular disease. There is no question that the indulgence in beer is merely an acquired habit. It was called Great Friday, and on that day such as entered the sanctuary of anis received plenary indulgence. He was always kind to me, and if he failed in justice, it was on the side of indulgence. And no human being was ever yet made the most of by lavish and unchastened indulgence. It is not wonderful that Puseyism should share in this universal indulgence. She was fond of daring feats on the trapeze, and had to be checked in her indulgence in them. All your scruples, you see, have met with an indulgence truly maternal from me. Rather hard on politicians this, to bracket their patriotic endeavours with pitch-and-toss and alcoholic indulgence! But this policeman is full of philosophic superiority, disdain, and indulgence. Show More Sentences The big-hearted brother could afford indulgence where only he himself was concerned. For equity and indulgence are infractions of the perfect and strict rule of justice. But with true German caution, the father guarded them from bad effects of over-excitement or indulgence. Indiscriminate indulgence is to be condemned, as is overindulgence in exercise or eating. For workingwomen as a class, however, there is much less indulgence in this than is supposed. And of course the festive season of Christmas was an occasion of special indulgence. Always her mother had treated her with that indulgence which is as empty as an unfilled grate. Without the immorality, we had the very atmosphere of a Sybarite indulgence. Excessive indulgence in animal food or in wine may cause an over-secretion of lithic acid. Unfortunately a widespread indulgence in predial larceny is a great hindrance to agriculture as well as to moral progress. I must beg my reader's indulgence, being the most immethodical writer imaginable. They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence. Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and tattle? Of true Puritan abstemiousness, his only indulgence was chewing tobacco. Sensual indulgence had sapped the very foundations of his character. I am not pleading for the indiscriminating indulgence in doubtful stories. Besides, that would be all recreation and indulgence, without the wholesome alloy of labour, and I do not like to eat the bread of idleness. I rely on your indulgence for the length and incorrectness of this letter. So feeble and cloying is the venereal indulgence, if Love inspires it not. But if he should justle, or throw down any of them, the indulgence of the spectators is entirely at an end. Show More Sentences Doubling up on indulgence is the Muller Corner de Luxe's delectable new flavours mouth-watering Mississippi Mud Pie and rich Rum and Raisins. He was so hungry this time that he could not resist the hot beef stew, an indulgence which cut short his stay by a considerable time. I but came to ask the indulgence of another day since it would be fool-hardy to attempt to navigate a ship in such a storm. She thanks you for your indulgence, on which she will not encroach. She was careful not to enervate him by luxury or weak indulgence. The undeserving were not treated with quite the same indulgence. Persons of his large sensual endowments must claim indulgence, at their feeding-time. She had moods of motiveless irritation, and of unreasonable indulgence. A more reasonable cause might be found in the dependent situation which forbad the indulgence of his affection. But it is the very passionateness of my love for Science which makes me fear its unlimited indulgence. Has he grown weary of indulgence, and passed from passive to active hatred? The danger of such a correspondence should alone deter any prudent female from its indulgence. At this day, religious indulgence is one of our clearest duties, because it is one of our undisputed rights. He laughed with an affectation of indulgence, masking something else. In this moment of indulgence his thoughts turned to Miss Winthrop. For a mind so perspicuous as that of D'Artagnan, this indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a better future. I was glad you made her play so much, for having no instrument at her grandmother's, it must have been a real indulgence. Ah, you remember all too well my recent indulgence toward your enigmas. The product claims that bees are not harmed in the process of collecting venom so that your skin can guiltlessly enjoy a 70-minute indulgence. But not too ready, as I feared too much indulgence might not be advisable. Show More Sentences I took possession of it, telling her that I was perfectly aware that I had intruded, that I had not been properly introduced and could only throw myself upon her indulgence. With the exception of those who mourned by the corpse, every one seemed disposed to drown the sense of the late bereavement in convivial indulgence. This may serve as a specimen of the numerous handles which would be given to the doctrine of constructive powers, by the indulgence of an injudicious zeal for bills of rights. Perhaps it was this very severity towards any indulgence of what she held to be sinful regret in herself, that made her shrink from applying her own standard to her husband. Rigg, and had taken out his snuff-box and tapped it, but had put it again unopened as an indulgence which, however clarifying to the judgment, was unsuited to the occasion. Cappuccino in a cardboard cup may be the current trendy treat, but at these three classic soda fountains in San Francisco, indulgence hearkens back to slower, sweeter times. You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying. An even larger percentage, purchased at least one for themselves, underscoring food gifting's inherent power of self-gratification, indulgence, and pampering. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of indulgence? Words that rhyme with indulgence What is the past tense of indulgence? What is the plural of indulgence? What is the adverb for indulgence? What is the adjective for indulgence? What is the noun for indulgence? Translations for indulgence Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words indulge me indulge in indulged in indulged Indulge indulge indulgences indulgent indulgently indulger indulgers indulges 10-letter Words Starting With i in ind indu indul indulg indulge indulgen indulgenc