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It's just that these days, us adults seem reluctant to allow ourselves the indulgence of just allowing our imaginations to drift along in the breeze, and I think that's a pity.
But sleep is not an indulgence.
And a small indulgence, like eating one scoop of ice cream, is more likely to lead to a food binge in controlled eaters.
They sacrifice personal indulgence.
Five Fingers also pretty much relegates itself to a B-movie status solely by its indulgence on manipulation of time.
It was self indulgence of the worst kind from writers who are far more talented than my pitiful criticisms.
Kind of a guilty indulgence nowadays, this used to be required watching when i was in high school.
Forgive my indulgence, but since I've recognized the trend as a phenomenon (which it is and, coincidentally, features my favorite horror staple).
Here the "Monsters" are the hideously beautiful beings, while the humans are the deceptively ugly creatures of self indulgence.
I've just seen this on TV and I didn't think it was a 'film' as such, more a post-'This Life' indulgence that really has no resonance or proper drama to it.
It is like Ken Russel on acid, and suffers from that older director's self indulgence cranked up to a hundred.
Without effective indulgence of the supernatural or the poetic motivating nuances of humanity, all this creative team has to hope for is effective usage of its middling, unoriginal elements.
It was not Irak or Rwanda, just a tiny village near Mexico City when rampage was carried out with the indulgence of media and government.
At its worst it's an indulgence, actors getting to bitch about other actors, question the validity of acting as a profession at all, etc whilst at its best it's a glorious celebration/send-up of some of the finest actors currently working.
What a contrast with this limp piece of self indulgence!
What unfolds is a very sensitive portrayal of the loneliness and hunger that drive a sometimes unfounded sense of optimism drowning in indulgence.
To cut the long story short, this movie is all about the high society indulgence and a really lame story.
Its a very very sad world....The film its self is a little self congratulatory, but Jitlov is such an extraordinary talent that this indulgence can be forgiven.
Self indulgent is a word often overused in the arts, and some of the best music and film is incredibly self indulgent, but behind that indulgence there is often genius.
On the night of his execution, the FBI finds the real criminal and Eddie grants an indulgence.
"Praise" is a slice-of-misery Aussie flick which looks into the waxing and waning of a relationship between a sexually obsessed woman and her taciturn and less experienced boyfriend while both languish in a life of self indulgence, sex, indolence, sex, drugs, sex and more sex.
I found all the cheap sets and over indulgence on computer generated backgrounds far to distracting to follow film as keenly as deserved, I'm sure even Noah himself was cringing into his popcorn at the premiere.
From India’s point of view, US indulgence of Pakistan became overt hostility when the US sent the Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal in support of the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh in 1971.
As Obama’s Kenyan sister might attest, this could be an expensive indulgence.
He told a Washington audience that anti-Americanism was an elite indulgence not shared by the French at large.
One hopes that its leaders respond, though their fondness for autocratic measures and indulgence of illiberal and intolerant statements by their supporters – behavior that has spurred serious concern across the political spectrum – raises serious doubts that they will.
In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Harari poses an important question: Can nationalism address the problems of a globalized world, “or is it an escapist indulgence that may doom humankind and the entire biosphere to disaster?”
Even Hollywood story lines now echo this desire to escape to a “simpler life,” with its aversion to excessive wealth and indulgence.
A few years ago, in Beijing, he ran one of China's most popular TV shows, each week testing the limits of the authorities' indulgence.
By contrast, the US court rulings’ indulgence of a parochial instinct to enforce written contracts will undermine the possibility of negotiated re-structuring in future debt crises.
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