Sentence examples for ask the indulgence from inspiring English sources

"I wonder if we could ask the indulgence of the press not to print that number," he said.

Before turning to my example, biomedicine, I must ask the indulgence of my readers through one more set of rather abstract considerations, which they will want to follow in relation to the example.

Premier League footballers don't tend to ask the cost of their indulgences.

A Met official asked the audience's indulgence before the performance but by the end of Act I, Mr. Gagnidze could no longer sing.

The great Nabokov did something like this, out of loyalty to illusion and deception as aesthetic ideals, but Greer is possessed by a serious tenderness that asks the reader's indulgence in a way that the aloof Russian would have scorned.

Mr. Muti returned to explain that Mr. Domingo was not feeling well even before the performance, but had not wanted to make an announcement beforehand asking the audience's indulgence -- common practice from singers who feel they may not deliver their best on a particular night.

He asks the reader's indulgence for the annexed list of Addenda et Corrigenda, both by reason of the peculiar character of his work, and the remoteness of West Cornwall from Public Libraries.

Some years there were prodigious quantities of honey and, in a forgivable piece of self-indulgence, Ian asked the paper's graphics department to produce labels for the pots.

I ask indulgence for the inclusion of a memorial for a close friend: the Chicago-based critic, author, and broadcaster Andrew Patner, who died on February 3rd, at the age of fifty-five.

He asked the crowd to forgive his self-indulgence as he spat out such a solo before his hip-hop-influenced "Bodyrock".

I am exaggerating: heaven help those who write without being read; for that reason there are too many people writing today and one cannot ask for indulgence for someone who has little to say, and one cannot allow trade-union or corporate sympathies.