What is "self-indulgence"

Usage examples of "self-indulgence".

Back to a sensory nature that, as Taylor puts it, all too often confuses self-indulgence with self-transcendence.

It is manifest this Utopia could not come about by chance and anarchy, but by co-ordinated effort and a community of design, and to tell of just land laws and wise government, a wisely balanced economic system, and wise social arrangements without telling how it was brought about, and how it is sustained against the vanity and self-indulgence, the moody fluctuations and uncertain imaginations, the heat and aptitude for partisanship that lurk, even when they do not flourish, in the texture of every man alive, is to build a palace without either door or staircase.

In designing a funeral for himself that would surpass all the funerals of the past in its ludicrous self-indulgence and mawkish extravagance, he must also have had it in mind that there would soon come a time when funerals would lose their aura of inevitability, occurring only in the wake of rare and unexpected accidents.

It avoids the extreme of self-torture that weakens one's intellect and the extreme of self-indulgence that retards spiritual progress.

I hoped I’d given the dratted clothes a hard enough pitch to keep them dry, but not hard enough to throw them into a bramblebush… or I’d be spending my planned period of self-indulgence manifesting a new set just like them, out here in the middle of nowhere, by magic, with nothing but my emergency kit and whatever happened to grow handy for makings.

If somehow she had survived intact in that sea of social depravations, of self-indulgence without limits and of rugiente ambition that was Hollywood, it would have noticed really his presence, or it would have been completely eclipsada to her eyes by more worldly and fascinating women?

Since he could do nothing whatever about them, he knew that allowing himself to dwell upon them, with morbid fears, was a form of self-indulgence he could no longer give mental lease.

Every delicious temptation that had enticed her mama to give herself over to wickedness and self-indulgence.

I had seen his colossal esurience, his imperial self-indulgence, his gargantuan appetite for sensual pleasure of all sorts, and once one has seen a messiah coveting food and impaling legions of willing women, it is hard to feel truly reverent toward him.

After you have watched them a while, you realize that these ultra-new people have fallen victim to the oldest form of logical fallacy, the non sequitur, and likewise to the oldest form of slavery, which is self-indulgence.

What I did was prey on their weakness for obfuscation and self-indulgence.

So that in the dark hints that David threw out at the Oyster Club about that life of Sultanic self-indulgence spent by him in the luxurious Indies, I really think he was doing himself a wrong.

Freely was a very regular churchman, but at the Oyster Club he was sometimes a little free in his conversation, more than hinting at a life of Sultanic self-indulgence which he had passed in the West Indies, shaking his head now and then and smiling rather bitterly, as men are wont to do when they intimate that they have become a little too wise to be instructed about a world which has long been flat and stale to them.

Guilt, for actions left undone, for wrongs unrighted, for self-indulgence.