Sentence examples for critical indulgence from inspiring English sources
He's often referred to as cute, which may explain his gift for enlisting celebrities in his projects, and for the critical indulgence that has greeted his work.
F. R. Leavis remarked in passing that Dreiser wrote as if he did not have a native language, and Lionel Trilling, in the influential essay "Reality in America," saw the critical "indulgence" of Dreiser (there were many champions besides Mencken) as a case of American hostility to intellect itself.
This has allowed him to be overtly critical of the "factionalism and indulgence" revealed in Peter Mandelson's book, which is rapidly becoming shorthand for the New Labour-style of government.
His doctrine of justification not only was critical of the abuse of the doctrine of indulgences but denied the very idea that humans could earn salvation.
Here are two readable, gossipy, involving books about Austen that more or less manage to square this critical circle (and any reader of Austen knows that gossip is no inferior indulgence, but the essence of narrative).
From 6-10 Dec, Battersea Arts Centre, SW11 Ricky Gervais In some ways, Ricky Gervais's career trajectory has been textbook: the critical acclaim; the cracking of the US; the slide into deeply unsettling levels of self-indulgence.
(The prices encourage indulgence).
Her favorite noncaloric indulgence?
Slipper seeks indulgence.
