All 4 Uses of
indulgent
in
Alias Grace
- Simon feels a certain contempt for material self-indulgence; and as a medical student he became habituated to a monkish austerity, and to working long hours under difficult conditions.
Chpt 4 *self-indulgence = being excessively kind to or undemanding of oneself
- He doesn't much like tea, but considers it a social duty to drink it in this country; and to greet all jokes about the Boston Tea Party, of which there have been too many, with an aloof but indulgent smile.†
Chpt 9
- What can be gained from looking, Simon asks himself; apart, that is, from a vulgar frisson, and the indulgence of morbid interest?†
Chpt 12indulgence = treatment with extra kindness or tolerance OR (more rarely) a special pleasure (typically something done in excess of what is thought good -- such as eating too much cake, or being too lazy)
- A lazy, indulgent life it would be, with its own slow delights.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
to treat with extra kindness or tolerance