Sentence examples for class indulgence from inspiring English sources

The increasingly ugly fallout from the changes in welfare undermines the argument that a vote for Ralph Nader is an upper-middle class indulgence: It is not clear that the poor would fare very well under another four years of Democratic rule.

Dalit intellectuals dismissed his campaign as a middle-class indulgence.

It is also about overcoming the stereotype that opera is an upper-class indulgence, the preserve of the well-heeled or elderly.

Like mani-pedis and bikini waxes before it, blowout service has gone from being an upper-class indulgence, or something attempted with iffy results in the privacy of one's bathroom, to an expected tenet of modern urban grooming.

In 1981, just two years after the Walkman was introduced to the U.S. market (at two hundred dollars, it was an upper-middle-class indulgence), a Times writer described the view on the streets: "Suddenly, waves of people were walking about with little foam-rubber circles on their ears and expressions of transport on their faces in a scene that was almost Orwellian".

He took stentorian note of upper-class self-indulgence.

It's a remarkable repudiation of therapy and middle-class self-indulgence.

Rates of the incurable disease, once synonymous with outrageous, upper-class over-indulgence have more than doubled since the 1950s and experts are predicting a further surge as more people enjoy excessive lifestyles at an early age.

I was a teenager during the period Mr. Brooks described and was later conscious of the turn the middle class took toward self-indulgence in triviality.

In chapter 4, Amos, in language that was sure to raise the ire of the privileged classes, attacked unnecessary indulgence and luxury.

A decade later, Jarvis Cocker quite successfully mixed that self-indulgence with class rage and the love of a good chemical.