(A.J. Guban designed the set). As the production's 10 role-juggling actors channel the crises-filled lives of gods, demigods and humans, the water becomes a presence in the storytelling — standing in for seas, springs and rooms but also serving as a metaphor for desire, self-indulgence, possibility and death.
Truly contrite sinners do not desire relief through an indulgence (which is a remission of the penance, or temporal punishment, that the sinner would otherwise owe following absolution); they crave penance.
By "pride" Mandeville meant vanity; by "luxury" he meant the desire for sensuous indulgence.
Hove tends toward the more sculptural while Magruder is mainly a painter, but both have their own spin on the story of desire, seduction, memory, indulgence, repulsion, comfort, consumption, and loathing that is the stuff candyland dreams are made of.
Hove tends toward the more sculptural while Magruder is mainly a painter, but both have their own spin on the story of desire, seduction, memory, indulgence, repulsion, comfort, consumption, and loathing that is the stuff candyland dreams are made of.
Enabling your second-order desires to dominate is not about joylessly killing indulgence, Mr. Akst argues, but rather a way to act in concert with "your highest level of reflection" — your best self.
If any exceptions to it were to be admitted, they could only flow from the indulgence of the state to such individuals, as from peculiar circumstances might desire to be permitted to stand upon a different footing.
But, remember, if on a weight loss program we may want to limit our indulgence to once or twice a week until we have achieved our desired results.
Indulgence can be deeply religious and honor the highest of rituals such as good will and gratitude, which are desires deep within our nature.
Houellebecq seems to suggest that this "utopian" solution only increases suffering, by encouraging a universal indulgence of desire.
The demands of the individual -- in the lure of Dido's love and the indulgence of desire -- are potentially disruptive and must be controlled.
