Sentence examples for indulgence not from inspiring English sources

Certainly a delicious wedding cake is desirable, but it is usually an indulgence not for the guests, but for the wedding party.

Removing the consequences of anything other than perfect fitness is an indulgence not just to athletes but to their coaches, who want nothing less than the realisation of their dream of 100% of performance 100% of the time.

Nor indeed should it be a regular indulgence, not only for the sake of your heart, but your soft furnishings too – as the redoubtable Colwin observes, "there are many disagreeable things about frying chicken".

On the steps of Downing Street this week, Mr Sarkozy carefully placed an affectionate hand on Mr Blair's shoulder as they said goodbye.A second explanation is that Mr Sarkozy believes that French antipathy to Anglo-Saxons is an elitist indulgence not shared by the French at large.

With just a week remaining until the greatest race on British turf, much of the build-up has been culpably diverted to a jockey now depending for a mount on the indulgence not only of the regulators, but also of trainers and owners.

More indulgence, not less, is what could've rescued the picture from too much editing and too fast a pacing.

The impression left by Radical Nature is one of self-indulgence, not practical intellect.

Recent years have been fertile for new indulgences — not all of them reserved for the seven-figure set — thanks to new hotels, party spots and restaurants.

Within it, in daylight, fields were still worked, for animal feed, and roads mostly open, but those were, legally, indulgences not rights; the area was, in the absence of an official escort, no-go after dark.

Self-indulgence will not make for a happy Christmas.

Using it as a premise for self-indulgence is not.