Sentence examples for way of indulging from inspiring English sources

Lionising Mr Loach is a way of indulging in an ancient French pastime.

Some people with eating disorders – particularly anorexia – choose to engage in lengthy discussions about food, sometimes as a way of indulging through conversation, and sometimes to find out more about others' eating habits against which they can measure their own.

His research also led him into some little-traveled intellectual byways, like the rich 18th-century debate over polygamy, which was promoted by moralists who saw it as a way of indulging the natural promiscuity of men without threatening the social order.

I was actually so heartbroken I took myself home to my parents, where I demanded the dentist finally pull out my wisdom teeth, as they had been giving me grief for years and it was the only socially acceptable way of indulging in my inner emo-sentiment of "I want to feel pain so I know I'm alive".

Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of his indulging a tawdry fantasy that gives him his only sense of identity.

And in this way dramatic illusion induces bad habits of indulging the passions, and the soul that had spent its life learning self-control sets about unlearning it.

It was day three of our one-week cruise aboard Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America, a seemingly deluxe way to indulge in the spirit of aloha, visiting each of Hawaii's four main islands in search of a rich, up-close encounter with its unique Pacific flora, fauna, geology and culture.

The session, held one Sunday a month in an industrial space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, seemed like an enjoyable way to indulge my love of caffeine, and it started off promisingly: a sort of coffee klatsch with my fellow students as we drank rich espressos dashed off by our instructor, Rowan Tuckfield.

"The Book of Dave" gave me a way to indulge my own personal knowledge of the city.

In ancient Greece, the singing of such songs was a traditional way of invoking good fortune on the marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry.

I nonetheless managed to find a way to indulge my love of science and joined the civil service as a science graduate entrant.