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Now that I’m at a station in my professional life where I’m kept up at night by concerns that go far beyond myself, such indulgent bouts are fewer and further between.

In indulgent societies, more people play sports, while in restrained societies, sports are more something you watch.

This current spring release featuring intentional colors, indulgent textures, and peak boldness to cultivate ideal yet mod selects for spring.

So you’ll forgive a moment of indulgent irrationality and some merriment.

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It feels more indulgent than the usual PB&J or energy bar but is still easy to snack on during lift rides without making a mess.

Both followed wars; people were tired of idealism and self-sacrifice and were determined to enjoy a self- indulgent materialism.

His last words, or so they say, were woefully self-indulgent: “Why me, Johnny Lazia, who has been the friend of everybody?”

A British editorialist called it, “mesmerizingly precious and hideously self-indulgent.”

Then, after their brief, indulgent stare, the two of them took off down the street, clearly unimpressed.

Oftentimes public fear like this can be a self-indulgent kind of collective astral projection.

Isabel's eyes were dancing with so purely youthful and feminine a triumph that he could not but feel indulgent.

Undoubtedly, as they grow stronger and stronger, it will be wise in the home government to be more and more indulgent.

He delivered his repeated phrases with an unctuous indulgent roll that made Gwynne long to grind his teeth.

He was a loving, indulgent father, and the girls adored him, but no sterner disciplinarian ever held sway.

Elsie would think it self-indulgent and abominable to stay in bed to breakfast—I don't.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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