I wasn't indulgent.

A little indulgent, I understand.

This is self indulgent, and Please stop.

You'll have to be very indulgent towards my cooking.

I should have regarded Motty's rapid work with an indulgent smile.

She gave me an indulgent smile, and as punishment, she said,

Polanski is a French citizen, and France is probably more indulgent towards its great artists than is the US.

Citizens of rich countries may be self centered and self indulgent, but things are not quite as horrible as some would have us believe.

Still, possibly the British mood portends a wider change of climate for Western liberal democracies, and the onset of a new, less indulgent era.

Indeed, the plethora of separate banking regulators had created opportunities for banks to arbitrage the system in search of a more indulgent approach to capital.

But I'm glad I have this opportunity to testify about my language experience, and I hope you'll be indulgent if my English is not up to the standard you expect.

Then there are those American leaders who still speak of making the US self sufficient in energy supplies. But this is basically a joke self indulgent, maybe, but self sufficient, never.

In the Quran, religious opinion religious orthodoxy is dismissed as zanna self indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.

Gays and other modern practices are rejected as self indulgent. As the political scientist Andrew Hacker recently put it, the Bush candidacy was framed to make a majority by giving some 60 million people a chance to feel good about themselves.

There was indeed a sign for Sheba in their dwelling place Two gardens on the right hand and the left ( as who should say ) Eat of the provision of your Lord and render thanks to Him . A fair land and an indulgent Lord !

The report condemned the Palestinian organizations, which either ordered or did not put an end to the killings, but it was not indulgent either with the security authorities for recruiting Palestinians as spies, frequently under duress (also referred to in Al Tali apos ah, 13 January 1994).

If you reply that the girls who want to wear headscarves to school aren t living in Nigeria or Saudi Arabia, and almost certainly don t share the extreme Wahhabi views found in those countries, you will be met with a look of almost indulgent pity, a look of the type reserved for the terminally naïve.

If these words had been spoken by some easy, self indulgent exhorter, from whose mouth they might have come merely as pious and rhetorical flourish, proper to be used to people in distress, perhaps they might not have had much effect but coming from one who daily and calmly risked fine and imprisonment for the cause of God and man, they had a weight that could not but be felt, and both the poor, desolate fugitives found calmness and strength breathing into them from it.