1. My one self-indulgence is expensive coffee.

2. One path to self-indulgence lies in having just the right level of tastelessness for a screen saver on your computer.

3. He prayed to be saved from self-indulgence.

4. It erodes self-awareness and self-restraint, and fosters self-indulgence.

5. Self-indulgence, selfishness, personality likes and dislikes can give way to the love and tenacity of the soul nature.

6. They are practicing the same self-indulgence that got us into this mess.

7. The paucity of self-control,(http:///self-indulgence.html) the abundance of self-indulgence together with what is called narcissism make the situation worse.

8. As long as no one is inflicting harm on anyone else, why should they be made to feel guilty for a little self-indulgence?

9. Classical literature is a polite literature luxuriating in endless prevarication and self-indulgence.

10. Over the next two years the protest movement, a mixture of genuine discontent, sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.

11. But how to allay old-style qualms about waste and self-indulgence?

12. You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

13. So nature and nurture combine to make us avoid self-indulgence.

14. More important, they believed, was public spiritedness — a system of habits and attitudes that would check egotism and self-indulgence.

15. More recently however they have also been blamed for a self-indulgence that has left the country financially, socially and even morally crippled.

16. The figure of devil represents abstinence and the various rites of the gathering of wizards, self-indulgence.

17. Zhong Tianqi, life is not as easy as you think it can be, and self-indulgence is not your monopoly.

18. Working hard makes you feel better about yourself and, after a prolonged period of hard slog, you feel sufficiently virtuous to enjoy a bout of self-indulgence with the gayest abandon.

19. Mt 23:5-7 Hesaysofthem, "You hypocrites!You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full ofgreed and self-indulgence."

20. Ever since, it has borne a whiff of consumerist self-indulgence, and its advocates then and now are accused of prizing sensation over anything more profound or ostensibly value-laden.

21. Phra Bodhiraksa criticizes the lax behaviour, superstitions, and materialism of most monks and the self-indulgence, corruption, and violence of Thai society.

22. It was his pride, his fears, his 'face', his self-indulgence and self-interest that allowed John to be murdered.

23. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence.

24. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you've already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble. Investing bypasses those alarms.

25. None of us needs to suffer in order to practise self-indulgence.

26. The path to wisdom is through discipline, and the path to intelligence through carefully selected self-indulgence.

27. In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.