Sentence examples for sort of indulgence from inspiring English sources

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But Patkai in turn seems quite a box of tricks, and these horses both demand the sort of indulgence never sought by their mighty rival.

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Sir Tony Baldry, the MP for Banbury, said: "We simply cannot carry on with this sort of self-indulgence that we are seeing on the order paper today.

John Updike's Harry Angstrom passed a hard verdict on this sort of self-indulgence in "Rabbit is Rich": "Seems funny to say it, but I'm glad I lived when I did.

In a typically ill-fated scheme, one of his characters, a demoralized aid worker in Sierra Leone, sets up a sewing co-op for women who have lost arms in the savage "chopping" campaigns of their country's civil war: "She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy".

Back in the day, we called this sort of self-indulgence "paralysis by analysis".

Chappelle's canonical status as a comic allows him these sorts of indulgences and I can't say I didn't enjoy myself, but I can't help but yearn for the focused, hungry Chappelle who I worshipped as a young adult.

I sort of agree.

Lincoln got on with Hay better than he did with his own son Robert, exhibiting a sort of paternal indulgence toward his winsome amanuensis.

That kind of real delicious, fatty kind of indulgence".

And at the heart of that, is another sort of consumerist self-indulgence.

That sort of crass self indulgence kills governments.

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