Sentence examples for extreme self-indulgence from inspiring English sources
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?
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.
"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.
Robert Christgau, one of the few detractors of Foxtrot, called the album a "privileged self-indulgence" due to its extreme musical dynamics.
Yet the Buddha renounced the extremes of self-mortification as strongly as he did self-indulgence, in his advocation of the "middle way".
Now was this self-indulgence?
Self-indulgence: Concerts.
Self-confidence - or self-indulgence?
This isn't self-indulgence.
