Sentence examples for material indulgence from inspiring English sources
She learned early to wear self-interest like a second skin; if she had not, she might have frozen to death, given her world's cold, material indulgence.
Yet we spend most of our time in a narcissistic orgy of material indulgence characterized by career and money obsession.
Because we're going to keep on borrowing money we don't have, to buy things we don't need, to fill a gap that can only be filled with a calling rather than a career, a sense of purpose rather than a shopping spree, and a spiritual center rather than greater material indulgence.
But, Father Wauck said, it reminds him of Jesus' suffering and moves him away from material self-indulgence.
He suggests that the country's current economic woes are the result of a drop in consumer spending that reflects a post-9/11 "turning away from self-indulgence and material things" -- never mind the drop in the stock market or rising unemployment.
Zuhd developed in Islam as a result of the Muslim conquests, which brought with them material wealth and widespread indulgence in luxurious living.
"Boomer grandparents are already very oriented to consuming, indulgence, materialism," says Lois Huff, vice president of Retail Forward, "This is going to be a big material boom for children".
Le Carré relates that he was afraid that Burton would lavish his sonorous and musical baritone upon very downbeat material, and Martin Ritt feared that indulgence, too, but Burton, in some of the greatest acting of his career, concentrates his voice into a quiet rasp.
They do something similar to their source material here, stripping away the weird indulgences of the War on Drugs' sound.
A small spa offers bespoke indulgences with materials found in the reserve, and a double-height restaurant serves Ecuadorian and international recipes.
Mr. Rossi makes painstaking choices for his Italian-tanned skins, matching material to shoe style and making customized cuts, an expensive indulgence that yields distinctive results.
