self-indulgence in English
Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies.
Use "self-indulgence" in a sentence
1. Abnegation uses it to describe self-indulgence
2. What a powerful incentive to replace self-indulgence with spiritual values!
3. We must arise from the dust of self-indulgence and be men!
4. Antonyms for Abstention include self-indulgence, indulgence, abandon, unconstraint, incontinence, disinhibition, covetousness, gluttony, acquisitiveness and excess
5. Antonyms for Abstinences include self-indulgence, abandons, acquisitiveness, covetousness, excess, gluttony, greediness, indulgence, wantonness and drunkenness
6. Antonyms for Abstemiousness include self-indulgence, excess, drunkenness, intemperance, dissipation, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, wildness and insobriety
7. (Numbers 25:1-9) Calf worship was characterized by gross self-indulgence, ‘having a good time.’
8. We can constantly see this ebb and flow of abandon and repression , self - indulgence and self - denial in the cultural history of the country and its worst periods have been those in which self - indulgence dominated the life of the people .
9. The paucity of self-control, the abundance of self-indulgence together with what is called narcissism make the situation worse.
10. because you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish,+ but inside they are full of greediness*+ and self-indulgence.
11. I don't really think political blogging should be about the posters although I regret to say that this assertion is Abnegated by the kind of exercises in self indulgence your are currently reading.
12. Asceticism definition is - the practice of strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline : the condition, practice, or mode of life of an ascetic : rigorous abstention from self-indulgence
13. AsceticISM. Rigorous abstention from any form of self-indulgence which is based on the belief that renunciation of the desires of the flesh and self-mortification can bring man to a high spiritual state
14. One of the remarkable paradoxes of our time is the Blatancy of those who profess a politics of compassion while shaping their own lives and aspirations according to the canons of self-indulgence--or their "personal legends."
15. Branagh's marketability (such as it is) has always been pretty closely tied to that of the 16th century playwright, but here he is shamelessly using the Shakespeare brand name simply in order to sell a typically Branaghian bit of self-indulgence.
16. Branagh's marketability (such as it is) has always been pretty closely tied to that of the 16th century playwright, but here he is shamelessly using the Shakespeare brand name simply in order to sell a typically Branaghian bit of self-indulgence.
17. Branagh's marketability (such as it is) has always been pretty closely tied to that of the 16th century playwright, but here he is shamelessly using the Shakespeare brand name simply in order to sell a typically Branaghian bit of self-indulgence.
18. ‘Lies, fraud, Chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?’ ‘But all these examples are nothing more than political Chicanery.’ ‘If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic Chicanery.’
19. ‘Lies, fraud, Chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?’ ‘But all these examples are nothing more than political Chicanery.’ ‘If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic Chicanery.’