Sentence examples for extreme indulgence from inspiring English sources
The phrase "extreme indulgence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or behavior characterized by excessive pleasure or self-gratification.
Example: "The holiday season often leads to extreme indulgence in food and drink, leaving many feeling bloated and regretful afterward."
Alternatives: "excessive indulgence" or "overindulgence".
At this time Debussy lived a life of extreme indulgence.
Occasional extreme indulgence: The fact that we're more likely to eat healthy food gives us the excuse to be self-indulgent.
In my conversations with Ms. Saidenberg and other parents, I was struck by just how much thought they had given to coaxing their children toward sensible eating and away from extreme indulgence or self-denial.
(An NFL quarterback whose most extreme indulgences are walnuts and grilled chicken?).
But would Western societies, including the United States, be betraying these same characteristics — obsession with celebrities (and especially their sex lives); blurring of the lines between news and entertainment; extreme self-indulgence (I am my Facebook Wall); a dearth of political principle and a surfeit of political attraction to money — without Murdoch?
At the level of affect the middle path steers clear of the extremes of indulgence and austerity, while at the mental level it avoids the extreme metaphysical positions of eternalism and annihilationism.
She also captures certain extremes of indulgence that verge on gross, like an especially bumpy rendering of a dish combining fried chicken and waffles.
In his first sermon, the Buddha prescribed a "middle way" between the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification.
Wang's followers carried his doctrines to extremes of self-indulgence, preached to the masses in gatherings resembling religious revivals, and collaborated with so-called "mad" Chan (Zen) Buddhists to spread the notion that Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism are equally valid paths to the supreme goal of individualistic self-fulfillment.
It would be hard to exaggerate the ubiquity of the diminutive (-ito, -ita) in Latin American Spanish, which originates from the extreme reverence and indulgence accorded to the young.
"That's an extreme example of self-indulgence," Mr. Holbrooke said, adding that colleagues had chided him for humiliating an envoy in front of his peers.
