Extravagance, fast living, elegant self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Is it set on fire by self-indulgence or by a noble sympathy?. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
= -- Habitual self-indulgence is at odds with the idea of social control. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The downside of the home-movie style is a tendency toward self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Guest From Hell] Reference
These modern girls thought of nothing but luxury, comfort, self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
A brave bold, blow against the nanny state, or narcissistic self-indulgence?. From Wordnik.com. [Sailor Abby Sunderland's Parents: Brave Or Bad?] Reference
The boom in luxury bathroom design is driven by fashion, ego and self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Feeling Flush] Reference
It is often brought upon us by our self-indulgence, extravagance and recklessness. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
His record has been a tangled commingling of idealism, self-indulgence and weirdness. From Wordnik.com. [Perot's Jungle Fever] Reference
Thanks to our culture of self-indulgence and self-expression, feelings are back "" in. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of The Tear] Reference
Those habits of writers and readers are respectively self-indulgence and self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [George Spyros: Finding a Social Compact for the Blogosphere: NYT's "The Medium" on ScienceBlogs Dust-Up] Reference
They did not want to improve society, but to make self-indulgence possible without shame. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
You've been blinded by a spectacular display of kindness, misdirected by self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [This Crowded Earth] Reference
You wish he'd take an intemperate potshot or two at artistic self-indulgence and pretentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ways Of Looking] Reference
It can be safely said that neither self-indulgence nor spermatorrhoea often leads to permanent sterility. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Oh! to have that last fateful Monday back again -- to live over again these last weeks of self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of St. Olave's] Reference
But they also understood that such experiences could become occasions for pride and spiritual self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Faith Is More Than A Feeling] Reference
I've been longing for an excuse for self-indulgence all the morning, and I'm much obliged to you for giving it. '. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
Theologians are at least consistent; they stick to the texts to help parents overcome the evils of self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: LEARNING TO DRAW THE LINE] Reference
Men living in self-indulgence have shaken off their sloth, and roused the old slumbering fearlessness of their race. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Dresden, for making a secret of his pursuit, regarding it rather as a matter of self-indulgence which needed excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
He loved Mary, and could not bear the thoughts of losing her, but in very deed he loved his own self-indulgence more. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
The only style, if it can be called one, common to modern performers of "" The Star-Spangled Banner '' is self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Say, Can You Sing?] Reference
There's none of the actorish self-indulgence, that taint of narcissism, that sometimes marred Rourke's earlier performances. From Wordnik.com. [A Perfect Casting Call] Reference
We are increasingly liberated to "be ourselves," but self-expression can slip into self-indulgence, sometimes self-destructive. From Wordnik.com. [The Limits Of Materialism] Reference
But what this movement really offers under its new catchword is simply a subtler form of epicureanism, a finer self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
But one wonders what Dole really thinks of the self-indulgence and squalid confessionalism that have debased our public culture. From Wordnik.com. [Learning To Love Dole] Reference
The analogy to the anarchic communal life to which their audiences aspired was obvious; so was the potential for self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [Requiem For The Dead] Reference
These people, through excess and self-indulgence, become feeble-minded, intellectually dissipated, and incapable of serious study. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
To them, the young generation's self-indulgence breaks a time-tested social contract that emphasizes ganbaru, or guts before glory. From Wordnik.com. [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference
She felt that being at the war was a form of selfishness of self-indulgence, when her duty should have been to remain with her aunt. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
We need someone with a low tolerance for schmaltz and self-indulgence, but with a soft-enough heart to spot a genuinely moving moment. From Wordnik.com. [And The Loser Is... Us] Reference
I have decided that, considering my present purpose, it would be little more than a useless self-indulgence to do what I at first intended. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
He took the family's self-indulgence to heights, hosting lavish, Bavarian-size feasts featuring roasted suckling pigs with red-painted toenails. From Wordnik.com. [Knocking Down The Kings Of Beer] Reference
Indeed, critics say Samaranch's imperious self-indulgence and his failure to effectively police his own organization have contributed to a culture of corruption in the IOC. From Wordnik.com. [No More Fun And Games] Reference
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