Sentence examples for refusing to indulge from inspiring English sources

The visitor angered Americans by refusing to indulge in steak and potatoes in favor of the Chinese meals prepared by his own chef.

"I didn't experience gang fighting or anything like that," he says, refusing to indulge in the romantic biographical licence which many young actors allow themselves.

Zanetti still does things the exact same way as an adult, refusing to indulge in gels or styling products when a simple bathroom tap will suffice.

For others, it was the only way their liberal-minded parents would allow any doll into their home, refusing to indulge in gender stereotypes or what they considered to be an elitist hobby.

Do they allow him to think he is keeping faith with his parents, refusing to indulge his desire and ability to make a text that as well as being clever and spirited and useful might also be aesthetically fine?

Wary of this aimless potential, his only concession to form is a limitation to the length of the four notebooks he found around his house, refusing to indulge himself by buying more.

They also have interests – bird watching, fishing, musical instruments, castles – that their parents refuse to indulge.

But she refused to indulge fatigue or bitterness, though she surely has a right to both.

Žižek refuses to indulge in sanctimonious regrets over the failings of 20th-century communism.

A few purists, for better or worse, refuse to indulge the mass market with timid, crass, or banal clothes.

And as for those he's been listening to — well, Barry refuses to indulge in any kind of Miss Lonelyhearts sympathy shit with these freaks.