Before Colombian cocaine made headlines, marijuana coming from the South American nation flooded U.S. cities and suburbs at a time when smoking weed was the most common illegal indulgence.
Old Gerda, with a reckless indulgence common to maidservants in horror films, has been persuaded to remove sheaves of frizzy garlic flowers from Lucy Holmwood's boudoir.
While we often associate displays of wealth with hubris, a 2006 study by Kivetz and Zheng found the most common justification for indulgence was as a reward for hard work.
The elaborate barn, designed by Raleigh Gildersleeve, a locally prominent architect, was the showpiece for Pyne's model farm, a personal indulgence common among wealthy 19th-century landowners longing for a taste of the agricultural life.
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.
It sounds counterintuitive, but a link between the onset of cold weather and heart attacks has been hypothesized for some time, with an array of possible culprits: inflammation from common colds, the stress and indulgence of the holiday season, and higher blood pressure from narrowed blood vessels.
Diabetes is common in the country (given Indian indulgence for sugary sweet treats); with diabetes comes the risk of diabetic retinopathy, and the possibility of blindness.
"The Romantics" establishes Mishra as the author of spare and reflective fiction that is a welcome antidote to the riotous magic realism so common in contemporary Indian writing (a stylistic indulgence Mishra has disparaged as "Rushdie-itis").
But there is one indulgence all billionaires have in common: their home or, as is more likely the case, homes.
These gripping pages demonstrate the way narrative urgency can discipline a writer's style and pre-empt self-indulgence, a flaw that's far too common in the book's earlier monologues.
