Sentence examples for artistic indulgence from inspiring English sources

This might end up no more than a derivative artistic indulgence were it not for the fact that Peter consolidates such seemingly spontaneous and throwaway doodles in sculptural acrylic resin, polyurethane and concrete.

As for anyone who might protest that the reconstruction of an artistic indulgence from the Gilded Age might be inappropriate during such hard economic times, Mr. Joyce has an answer: it is the reconstruction of a unique era, one that visitors can enjoy for a nominal fee.

But so beautiful is the music -- and so imaginative is Bourne's enchanting dreamscape of blindfolded sleepwalkers -- that we can forgive and even applaud this artistic indulgence.

(Among other artistic indulgences, the film compares a sexually active woman to a dirty shoe).

And what if those seductions lead not to the future but to a dead end of artistic self-indulgence?

The sheer scale of rock album sales gave musicians and their ever-growing entourage of managers, lawyers, and accountants the upper hand in negotiations with record companies, and for a moment it seemed that the greater the artistic self-indulgence the bigger the financial return.

After all that, I won't insult him by speculating that Kieron Smith, Boy is the result of artistic misjudgment or autobiographical self-indulgence.

In raging, humorous polemics like "James Taylor Marked for Death," Bangs savaged the artistic pretensions and virtuosic self-indulgence of the hippie aristocracy and formulated a countervision of rock as a raw, spontaneous blurt of emotion untrammeled by taste or skill.

(John Simon of New York magazine takes the blow for all of us.) One thing "Ecco Porco" accomplishes is an effective test of the theatergoer's indulgence of the artistic sensibility.

"Jazz" contains many acts of bravery -- political, personal and artistic -- by name players and by artists long forgotten, and acts of self-indulgence, greed and cowardice.

A few of the films in "ELECTRIC PICTURE SHOW," a collection of animated shorts made in Brooklyn, are steeped in the post-'60s, neo-Marin County self-indulgence that characterizes so much of that borough's artistic output.