Sentence examples for indulgent aunt from inspiring English sources
They had no children, but were an indulgent aunt and uncle.
The stories almost invariably begin with Tora "unexpectedly" returning from his travels to the neighborhood sweet shop owned by his cranky uncle (a role that absorbed three actors: Shin Morikawa, Tatsuo Matsumura and Masami Shimojo) and indulgent aunt (Chieko Mizaki).
It is a remembrance of an indulgent childhood, spent with "Aunt" and "Uncle" in that house; the writer gives vignettes of his daily life at home and in school, until he introduces the event of the class photograph.
Judy's indulgent and spaced-out Aunt Opal is a peculiar addition to the plot.
In any case, Facebook always seemed intrusive, not to mention self-indulgent: new mothers documenting their babies' every bowel movement, Aunt Jane parading pictures of her eight cats, former schoolmates flaunting fabulous book deals.
Austen loves a motherless heroine: think of Anne Elliot, who learns the hard way about placing too much trust in her figurative aunt, Lady Russell and Emmaa, whose stand-in aunt, Mrs Weston, her over-indulgent ex-governess, also provides flawed guidance (and whose removal from the household on her marriage provides the initial motor for the plot).
All hearty, indulgent dishes.
Indulgent, sometimes even adulatory.
Micronesians were indulgent with infants.
