Or because there is, or was, less cultural indulgence of self-destructive behaviour where women are concerned?
Whistler missed the express train to modernism when he moved from Paris to London, in the eighteen-sixties, and set up as a bad-boy darling of high society — suing John Ruskin for a negative review, volleying zingers with Oscar Wilde, and, having taxed the Victorians' scant indulgence of self-promoting upstarts, becoming a frequent laughingstock.
The poet's crippling self-loathing is historically documented; thus, his brazen indulgence of self-narrativizing is a confrontation of interior darkness unsuitable to comparisons with the extroverted and temperamentally optimistic Whitman (the bulk of which comparisons are merely craft-oriented analyses of Stanford's evident maximalism, in any case).
(What is a dedication to wellness but an indulgence of the self?) But one might also wonder, by the end of this book, what rhetorical resources are left for a positive conception of wellness.
As power shifts to Asia, Australia can no longer afford the indulgence of a self-absorbed political class.
Amid heated Commons exchanges, Tony Baldry - who was a minister in the government of John Major that was riven by splits over Europe in the 1990s - accused rebels of "self indulgence" reminiscent of past divisions.
It is the middle way between the two extremes of self indulgence and self denial.
Additionally, we all experience two main extreme forms of self indulgence in others that exists within us all.
Hence Monday's show at New York fashion week being an all out indulgence of Hilfiger's self-professed love of all things nautical.
Everyone has their self-care indulgence of choice and this is mine.
