"academic indulgence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to an excessive or uncritical attitude towards one's own scholarship or studies. For example, "I think his paper is suffering from a bit of academic indulgence; there's not much critical analysis."
When Benedict opened his 2006 address in Regensburg, Germany, with a negative quotation about Islam from a 14th-century Byzantine emperor, was this a bit of academic indulgence that should have been vetted?
Sharkey, a sympathizer with progressive causes, sees the position in which urban crime is taken to be a kind of political violence — an as yet insufficiently organized program of dissent — for the academic indulgence that it is.
With wars raging, and people running for their lives, it might sound like an academic indulgence to spend time building partnerships with researchers and donors similarly interested in effective aid.
The larger question is whether West's unhappiness is a reflection of the Black Community's sentiments generally, or the indulgences of an academic with the trappings of the Ivy League providing a parlor room for his political musings.
This spectator's verdict: Mr. Bean's play at its National Theatre debut back in May seemed indulgence enough until Mr. Frayn's evergreen farce reappeared, drowning academic debate in near-overwhelming waves of laughter.
Bernardo Barranco, an academic and columnist who writes often on the Mexican Catholic Church, told VICE News that the indulgence for the Legionaries of Christ was "contradictory" to the rest of the Pope's message. .
May I extort, then, the indulgence of a further se'nnight?" In David Lodge's novel "Changing Places," a tweedy little British academic goes to teach at Euphoric State University, on the West Coast, while a big brash American academic goes to teach at a rain-sodden redbrick called Rummidge.
Now we're slipping back towards an aristocracy of letters: funding cuts are disproportionately hitting those academic departments that are concerned with anything other than manipulating numbers, and the humanities are once again becoming an indulgence only for those that can afford it.
Irritated by Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar who was reported to have preached to the faithful that the purchase of a letter of indulgence entailed the forgiveness of sins, Luther drafted a set of propositions for the purpose of conducting an academic debate on indulgences at the university in Wittenberg.
