If sheer admiration, and consumer indulgence expressed at the bookstore and record breaking movie premiers (The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, Spider-Man) are any indication of where citizens place their hopes and dreams, then the foundation blocks of the Great American Church belong to DC and Marvel.
While loyalist ministers queued up to express poorly feigned surprise at Ms Short's "timing" and "self-indulgence", Downing Street insisted that the prime minister was too busy telephoning "world leaders" about that second resolution to deal with Ms Short just yet.
(In fact, he felt that the whole avant garde movement was nothing more than a bourgeois indulgence, something he trenchantly expressed in his book, Stockhausen Serves Imperialism).
Self- indulgence, in the guise of expressing one's true nature, becomes the norm, even the touchstone of healthy living.
WHY ARENT YOU MORE ANGRY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Similar sentiments, albeit less forcefully expressed, came from MrEugenides ("What japes! What hilarity! What self-indulgence!") and the more polite GrifofTheBloodyHand: "I'm just not sure what the point of the article is?
Some centers report that guests have expressed guilt at being nurtured; that a massage seems like an inappropriate indulgence.
56) expressed similar thoughts in a bracingly concrete manner by imagining the pleasures of "perpetual indulgence in bestiality" and claiming them to be not good but bad.
Author Reebee Garofalo agreed, and expressed the opinion that the line "We're saving our own lives" was a "distasteful element of self-indulgence".
The court expressed a firm commitment to the due process of law despite of the opinions of those in the country who feel he does not deserve "further indulgence".
The interrater reliabilities (intraclass correlation coefficients) were as follows: expressed warmth (.75), sensitive responding (.71), enjoyment of play (.87), amount of interaction (.82), quality of interaction (.77), frequency of battles (.95), level of battles (.85), disciplinary indulgence (.74), and disciplinary aggression (.76).76
