If it's a question of the satanic tenet in indulgence, Larson asks if that means pedophiles can indulge in children.
This year she confesses to her reliance on psychics – "or 'reverse historians' if you prefer" – a harmless if embarrassing indulgence that turned darker when a palm reader told her she would never have children.
This is the first generation under the one-child policy to reach maturity, and many have enjoyed the devotion -- if not indulgence -- of parents with an only child.
If the indulgence were on behalf of the donor himself, he would receive preferential treatment in case of future sin, if for someone else already in purgatory, he need not be contrite for his own sin.
The meteorite that had crashed down on the city of Chelyabinsk was a warning from God, he said; if the indulgence of homosexuals continued, Russia would, like Sodom and Gomorrah, be destroyed for its moral turpitude.
But were you still feeling flush, or maybe a bit oblivious, a familiar if rare indulgence was available in the rooftop loft at the Hotel Gansevoort in the meatpacking district: a concert by Prince.
It is as if reading a novel would be an unforgivable indulgence if the reader did not learn something concrete from it; how to evade an infra-red security system, or the precise specification of the latest terrorist weapon.
But only if those indulgences could be had for recession-friendly prices.
If so, parental indulgence has seldom had such an impressive result.In the festival itself, the drama highlight was work by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, a Spanish, or more precisely Galician, dramatist who died in 1936.
Each time you behold them they remind you of the bond between you and the manufacturer, and the succour that will deliver you if your expensive indulgence goes wrong.
