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  • she spent no time in indulging the frivolous.   (source)
    indulging = enjoying (to excess)
  • How will you answer the fact that you're jeopardizing the case and your position by indulging in a personal relationship with a suspect?   (source)
    indulging = excessively giving into desire
  • My cheeks burned and guilt coursed through me, the guilt of indulging myself at the expense of his ulcer, his black fingernails and aching wrists.†   (source)
    indulging = enjoying to excess
  • Although he was tired, Arnold was feeling good; he was even in a mood to indulge the lawyer, Gennaro.†   (source)
    indulge = enjoy to excess
  • Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.   (source)
    indulge = give into a desire in a manner that is not good
  • I prepare another before I retire to a tree where I continue sipping, eating rabbit, and even indulge in one of my precious crackers.†   (source)
  • "Please, indulge me," he said.†   (source)
  • It made me feel like a kid, protected and indulged, and no self-respecting Russian grandmother would have it any other way.†   (source)
  • In fact, he rarely indulged in any of the syrupy liqueurs—and certainly not those that were colored green and reported to cause madness.†   (source)
  • During her sophomore year of high school, Lori's boyfriend stole some PCP, and the two of them returned to Mamaw's to indulge.†   (source)
  • Plus, in Caribbean households, boys were often indulged like little princes.†   (source)
  • Then perhaps you would indulge me this little game?†   (source)
  • Like most uglies, Tally had often indulged the fantasy that one day she might be on the Committee, and help decide what the next generation would look like.†   (source)
  • I can indulge once in a while.†   (source)
  • She gained weight, indulged herself endlessly, and became the soul of pampered self-absorption.†   (source)
  • She wanted to believe this, and so she indulged herself and tried to be swept up in it.†   (source)
  • Bailey turned to the audience, shaking his head, indulging them.†   (source)
  • Matt smiled at her the way you'd indulge a child who just told you the sky is falling.†   (source)
  • Now that it mattered to him, to get the timing of his leap adjusted to my lifting him even higher, why couldn't I simply indulge him without criticizing him?†   (source)
  • The parents were long asleep, no need to indulge ritual pleasantries.†   (source)
  • "Indulge me," Nehemia pressed, smiling tightly.†   (source)
  • In any case, thank you for indulging me.†   (source)
  • So we're forced to indulge in an underground market of technology and inventions to help better ourselves.†   (source)
  • The Messengers, though — there were four in the class, wearing their snappy white tunics and blue sashes — were indulging in a peculiar habit Reynie had noticed.†   (source)
  • A girl has to indulge.†   (source)
  • They would turn their backs on her, her mother, the policemen, her brother, and go off with Robbie Turner to indulge some adult cabal.†   (source)
  • They were bitten down to the quick though he could not remember when he had restarted this habit nor any time when he indulged it.†   (source)
  • That they wanted to eliminate him for indulging in "Lawful Union Activities."†   (source)
  • One certain evidence of this is the confession of Tituba, the slave of Reverend Parris, and another is the behavior of the children who were known to have indulged in sorceries with her.†   (source)
  • Would you indulge me?†   (source)
  • Root was tempted to let them wrestle for a while, but now wasn't the time to indulge himself.†   (source)
  • I was relaxed and personable, I was as thin as a rail, I did not indulge in self pity or negative thinking of any kind, I was an excellent salesman—everyone said so—and business was so good that what I spent on drugs, I scarcely missed.†   (source)
  • Thinking about it now, it occurs to me the neartaboo at the Cottages surrounding people who'd left might well have stopped them talking about their friend even to each other, and it was only once we'd come away they'd felt able to indulge themselves in this way.†   (source)
  • Rand asked, hopeful eyes, and Marybeth and I both indulged him.†   (source)
  • But you can't indulge in wanton violence.†   (source)
  • They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis.†   (source)
  • "M. Silenus has committed the ultimate act of non-communication," wrote Urban Kapry in the TC'v Review, "by indulging himself in an orgy of pretentious obfuscation."†   (source)
  • Whatever we are now, I can't indulge thoughts about how attractive he is.†   (source)
  • I even tried my best to indulge her increasingly bizarre and irrational behavior.†   (source)
  • You are straying, indulging in whimsy.†   (source)
  • I indulged in the hope that only the ground-floor flats, set on fire as a deterrent, would burn, and the tenants would come back as soon as their papers had been checked.†   (source)
  • There was no point in indulging in more terror, more anxiety.†   (source)
  • Though she had refused to indulge them, she knew, even then, what the correct response was.†   (source)
  • But Nathaniel isn't going to indulge his tormentor.†   (source)
  • Instead of feeling grateful as I should have, I indulged myself with resentment: So I have to be a cripple and be on the verge of a cancer diagnosis to get a little help around here?†   (source)
  • They indulge their husbands, if anything.†   (source)
  • At 701 Sixty-third Street in Englewood Julia Conner put her daughter to bed and did her best to smile and indulge the child's delighted anticipation of Christmas.†   (source)
  • We both knew the plantation, and I had indulged in one of the greatest pleasures of a vampire, that of watching people unbeknownst to them.†   (source)
  • He indulged me.†   (source)
  • As had been learned in missions over Hanoi—in which the B-52 had participated and sustained SAM (surface-to-air missile) damage—the best method of attacking a heavily defended target was to converge from all points of the compass at once, "like the enveloping arms of an angry bear," the squadron commander had put it at the briefing, indulging his poetic nature.†   (source)
  • Not for the firsttime it occurred to him that Ian's possession of the woman Geoffrey loved just as dearly (if secretly) allowed Ianto indulge in an odd sort of selfishness and an almost womanly hysteria that Geoffrey himself must forgo; after all, to the rest of the world he was only Misery's friend.†   (source)
  • He had managed to avoid the snares of a routine, living as free and poor as a wandering minstrel, having never worn leather shoes, a tie, or a wristwatch, and indulging himself in the luxuries of affection, candor, shabbiness, and the siesta, for he was not accountable to anyone.†   (source)
  • And we were always in search of some sonofabitch in a turban who had for too long been indulging in his favorite pastime of blowing up U.S. Marines.†   (source)
  • They had a special language: regression, acting out, hostility, withdrawal, indulging in behavior.†   (source)
  • "Indulge an old man's whim," Yueh said.†   (source)
  • He indulged himself in the feeling that he was being shown his new digs to ensure that they met with his approval.†   (source)
  • Patch gave a sly smile and indulged my request.†   (source)
  • To indulge us, some of them even fell down and writhed convincingly on the Club House's vast manicured lawn.†   (source)
  • With four girls so close in age, she couldn't indulge identities and hunt down a red cowboy shirt when the third daughter turned tomboy or a Mexican peasant blouse when the oldest discovered her Hispanic roots.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it seems culturally insensitive to scold the poor for indulging in festivals, cigarettes, alcohol, or sweets that make life more fun.†   (source)
  • The dance teacher applauds zestily as he finishes, and Phil, a blush appearing on his light skin, indulges a bow.†   (source)
  • The Hat Creek outfit was hardly known as a trail-driving bunch, but on the other hand Captain Call was not a man to indulge in idle talk.†   (source)
  • When she was assigned a locker next to mine, I could indulge my jealousy four times a day.†   (source)
  • Through the window, I can see the quadrangle and the guys indulging in a snowball fight.†   (source)
  • I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful.†   (source)
  • Maybe because Nyx is sick and tired of you being selfish, spoiled, indulged, hateful ....†   (source)
  • "Every brutal gratification can be so easily indulged in this place," wrote William Tudor of Boston, Washington's judge advocate, to his fiancee, "that the army will be debauched here in a month more than in twelve at Cambridge."†   (source)
  • We don't indulge ourselves in cheap and easy delusions, Sims.†   (source)
  • But since that would be breaking her vow to eat fast food no more than once a month, she wasn't going to indulge.†   (source)
  • He shuffled off to the bedroom to indulge in an afternoon nap.†   (source)
  • I bet you could do with a bit o' civilized company, such as might be provided by a pair of gentlemen such as us—well, I say us, but o' course Mr. Polegrave here does indulge in the questionable habit o' wiping his boogers on his sleeve, but bishops have been known to do worse.†   (source)
  • Mustn't let them think we British ladies are so petty as to indulge in arguments on the streets.†   (source)
  • Can't blame a fellow for indulging his imagination, though.†   (source)
  • But never for a minute did I allow myself to indulge in that fantasy—I knew that I would go to prison.†   (source)
  • It was absurd how rarely he indulged in them.†   (source)
  • The nearest he comes to indulging in black culture is dancing to Chubby Checker.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered I was indulging in this revolting display of saccharine emotion right in front of Fang.†   (source)
  • I went to poetry and fiction readings and indulged in the wine and cheese.†   (source)
  • She was indulged—spoiled, she said—especially after her mother died.†   (source)
  • Please, indulge me.†   (source)
  • As the boy grew she took him along with her as she indulged in her favorite pastime—fishing in the Licking River.†   (source)
  • But seeing something that resembled his own fangs sinking into flesh—not breaking skin, but biting nonetheless—sent Vlad's fangs shooting from his gums, and suddenly it was all he could do not to rip the girl from Kristoff's arms and indulge in every last delicious drop of her.†   (source)
  • And that if I continued to indulge my talents, I'd turn exactly into my mother.†   (source)
  • They were untied for meals, to use the toilet, and for the smokers among them to indulge their habit.†   (source)
  • But, how, pray tell, could I not indulge in a little kissing under those circumstances.†   (source)
  • "If she doesn't indulge in torture for personal pleasure, why didn't she do the sensible thing and hang me?" he asked quietly.†   (source)
  • I stuck with him not only because we could work well together, but because our teamwork was so automatic that I was free to indulge my romantic fantasies at the same time.†   (source)
  • I accuse you of indulging in a filthy habit, Bledsoe!†   (source)
  • The hermaphrodite had long been their master's special pet, indulged and favored, and the noble Yezzan's other slaves hated him for it.†   (source)
  • After criticizing Chief Marshal Williams as being "confused, bewildered, and utterly lost to usefulness," Sewell went on to state that "worse than all, his men ...were, many of them, in a condition of 'demoralization' that was painful and sad to witness....Adding to their fatigue, many of the firemen indulged freely on Sunday in the use of intoxicating liquors....[To this] fact, as much to the wind or the drought, is to be attributed the so rapid spread of the flames as to place them beyond all control or power of mastery.†   (source)
  • Religion was a ritual that I indulged in for my mother's sake and to which I attached no meaning.†   (source)
  • Be thankful, mon cher, they might be caviar or those expensive drugs the rich indulge in!†   (source)
  • He and his wife indulged every photographer and cheerfully fielded calls from reporters at any time, day or night.†   (source)
  • Not being equipped for that, Mike indulged in phony answers with skewed logic, or pranks like issuing pay cheque to a janitor in Authority's Luna City office for AS$10,000,000,000,000,185.15—last five digits being correct amount.†   (source)
  • A hundred and twenty thousand people work for F.A.I. Alessandro did not indulge Nicolo s lack of belief in himself.†   (source)
  • That's what you get, he thought, when you indulge yourself in weakness.†   (source)
  • With liberation soclose, it would be madness to cut that thread by indulging in reckless and provocative activities.†   (source)
  • "Bite on this," the guard said, indulging in one last bleat of hopeless bravado, and then he did as he was told.†   (source)
  • I indulged myself with the old-time stories because they evoked a feeling of comfort I remembered from my childhood at Laguna.†   (source)
  • Yet he moped and moped — not eating, not talking, indulging his misery as though it were a child.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Barlowe was correct in her assertion that Dunwoody did not indulge in the vulgar practice of criminal defense.†   (source)
  • And by indulging in excesses of jealousy and worry, we may bring ourselves to a state of absolute skepticism and irresolution.†   (source)
  • crew quarters, but Tyler was spending so much time on the Business he figured he should indulge.†   (source)
  • Enchi was so drunk with rice wine that he had passed out in the parlor room, never making it upstairs, and Fujimori, who always grew quieter as he indulged, was sitting glumly among the regular working ladies, sipping at his porcelain drinking cup.†   (source)
  • A farmer's son serving in the 1st North Carolina Infantry wrote to his father during another period of Confederate reverses: "Instead of indulging in feelings of despondency let us compare our situation and cause to those of our illustrious ancestors who achieved the liberties we have ever enjoyed and for which we are now contending."†   (source)
  • While he was up there, he indulged himself in a survey of his new property.†   (source)
  • Men hurrying by stopped to stare inquisitively before moving on, idlers stood or sat around lazily indulging their curiosity.†   (source)
  • To his favorite son, Zahir, he once remarked: "I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps."†   (source)
  • (To the grappling LOVERS:) All right, no need to indulge yourselves†   (source)
  • In the midst of this, I indulged myself with a vision.†   (source)
  • It can't explain how it feels, though on the other hand it can't lie, build up its symptoms, or indulge in the pleasures of hypochondria.†   (source)
  • The little sad man with spectacles who sat alone at the neighboring table, deep in a book on the manufacture of ball bearings, might have deduced, bad he been listening, that Leamas was indulging a sadistic nature—or perhaps (if he had been a man of particular subtlety) that Leamas was proving to his own satisfaction that only a man with a strong ulterior motive would put up with that kind of treatment.†   (source)
  • Do you plan on spending another lifetime indulging in metaphysics-to find new justification for opposing your enemies?†   (source)
  • Perhaps I should say she indulged in certain evasions which at the time were necessary in order for her to retain her composure.†   (source)
  • KELLER [EMBARRASSED]: Oh, Katie, we—had a little talk, Miss Annie feels that if we indulge Helen in these—†   (source)
  • People could indulge in such whims, because they had both the time and the money.†   (source)
  • Indulging in equitation, he called it.†   (source)
  • She indulged a temporary fantasy.†   (source)
  • He was curiously inconsistent, now indulging in uninvited confidences, now leaving the most innocent questions unanswered.†   (source)
  • Not that he indulges in any of the deliberate temperamental posturings of the stage star.†   (source)
  • Hannah, left alone, was grateful that we are animals; it was this silly, strenuous, good, humble cluttering of animal needs which saw us through sane, fully as much as prayer; and towards the end of these moments of solitude, with her mind free from the subtle deceptions of concern, she indulged herself in whispering, aloud, "He's dead.†   (source)
  • And two people can indulge in imperviousness as well as in anything else.†   (source)
  • A friend of Benton's, on the other hand, wrote: I am sorry Mr. Benton indulges in so much profanity.†   (source)
  • During this time she hardly ever indulged in her old fits of temper against her servant.†   (source)
  • I think I could get some of that, he said, as if indulging a child's wish for bubble gum.†   (source)
  • His ascendants had indulged in hashish, but he preferred a different kind of gratification.†   (source)
  • "For six months," Silenus continued, "we have indulged you, Master Underwood.†   (source)
  • He must refuse to indulge such brain-sick fancies.†   (source)
  • It was, as I say, a little game we all indulged in to some extent.†   (source)
  • Selling upscale fabrics in Flushing indulged her taste for glamour and sophistication.†   (source)
  • Diamond Jim Brady dined with Lillian Russell and indulged his passion for sweet corn.†   (source)
  • I'd been asleep for so long, I decided to indulge myself in a luxurious and prolonged pee.†   (source)
  • Inspector, I'm afraid I don't have time to indulge in your games.†   (source)
  • The audienced applauded again, and Stenton indulged them, then again asked for quiet.†   (source)
  • She sees crying as a sign of weakness, a garish appeal for attention, and she won't indulge it.†   (source)
  • Things had become too desperate now to indulge in the luxury of lying to herself.†   (source)
  • At the same time they indulge in musical outbursts, like songbirds.†   (source)
  • It seems I won't be sleeping tonight, and I shall have to indulge if I am to keep awake.†   (source)
  • Then she couldn't indulge herself anymore.†   (source)
  • To do that, I'm hoping Illea will indulge my deepest wish: to have a Selection.†   (source)
  • Ever since he'd stopped to pick her up in the snowstorm he'd been indulging himself foolishly.†   (source)
  • Reverting to his own language, he indulged in several more pungent oaths.†   (source)
  • Briony indulged herself by looking through the window in a spirit of farewell.†   (source)
  • Jump on people, sniff crotches, or indulge in any other socially unacceptable behavior.†   (source)
  • The answer remains no. I indulge you shamefully in most things, not in this.†   (source)
  • I couldn't even muster the energy to indulge my hobbies—playing guitar, woodworking, reading.†   (source)
  • Indulging my grandfather's obsession with them had made me worse, not better.†   (source)
  • Hatsue felt she did him no favors by indulging his self-pity, and he resented her for this.†   (source)
  • I am afraid he was very much indulged, not least by himself.†   (source)
  • He assumed I was indulging him because we were close to our destination, and he refused.†   (source)
  • He enjoys indulging in intrigue and playing people against one another.†   (source)
  • He couldn't afford to indulge in that kind of thinking.†   (source)
  • In the afternoon Jackie took the girls outside to play while Mom indulged in a nap.†   (source)
  • Home for nineteen hours and you've already indulged your predilection for ablutionary excesses, hah!†   (source)
  • And it seems their way of compensating is to indulge her and her brother.†   (source)
  • Has it only been a few days since I last indulged this not-so-bad habit?†   (source)
  • You think I like all that "thinking" I indulge myself in?†   (source)
  • If the Book does not exist, we have indulged a wild-goose chase.†   (source)
  • Although surprised, I refused to indulge my curiosity by questioning him.†   (source)
  • The intended message is to indulge your curiosity, challenge yourself, experiment.†   (source)
  • The smee had indulged in many forms since the Director lifted his ban.†   (source)
  • She has not indulged in atrocities for personal pleasure," she said firmly.†   (source)
  • She didn't indulge him with the obvious question.†   (source)
  • I cannot allow you to indulge your anger and endanger everyone within this realm.†   (source)
  • Not even sure if he indulged, I said I'd bring the toot if he'd bring the beer.†   (source)
  • I nearly indulged myself until Lord Ammon reminded me that you have not yet earned such an honor.†   (source)
  • The girls indulged him with cries of "Ay, Papi."†   (source)
  • Let the culture indulge in cheap conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • However, he could no longer afford to indulge in such self-deception.†   (source)
  • Let's just say he's a sweet, sweet man who likes to indulge in a little harmless sin on occasion.†   (source)
  • We indulge in a taste of the monster, losing our clothes before we're finished.†   (source)
  • The fact is, I have tended increasingly of late to indulge myself in such recollections.†   (source)
  • We cannot indulge in theory, we have to deal with the practical reality of the moment.†   (source)
  • I indulged in my self-pity, the nastiness inside me curdling like putrid milk.†   (source)
  • Our prospects are too precarious for you, me, or any of us to indulge in false pride.†   (source)
  • Under the circumstances Conklin would be unlikely to indulge in a loud, heated argument.†   (source)
  • There was no time to indulge in personal feelings; the information was suddenly everything.†   (source)
  • "We are by no means willing to indulge a thought of your declining this important service†   (source)
  • "Don't I indulge your every whim?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Those were the days when good Methodists only indulged in Rook or Old Maid.†   (source)
  • He has greedily indulged in the pleasure of his own flesh by drinking the water.†   (source)
  • But you must indulge your master, for we are approaching a beautiful moment.†   (source)
  • She had a weakness for leather and bold colors that she could rarely indulge.†   (source)
  • However, I cannot indulge in favoritism, nor should you have need of it.†   (source)
  • I've only indulged maybe twice a day, and yesterday I completely ignored the monster's whining.†   (source)
  • This was no time to indulge in human concerns or personal questions.†   (source)
  • I will go to any lengths, indulge in all venalities, to stop this planet from blowing itself up.†   (source)
  • If you will indulge me by listening, I would be most grateful.†   (source)
  • Call was not willing to indulge him in any dramatics.†   (source)
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