indulgent

“I found it really evocative and very emotional without being indulgent,” Ronan says of Liptrot’s unflinching book, highly regarded by those in recovery.

You know, people ask me — I don’t want to be indulgent here, but I do want to say this — because I often play real characters and some of them suffer.

Barabak: The Democrats’ indulgent and sloppy scheduling pushed other speakers way past TV’s prime time when, crucially, the most people are watching.

Bone-tired caregivers often field unrealistic suggestions to do something indulgent for themselves: Book a spa treatment, take a yoga class or a weekend trip.

But conditions quickly deteriorate, and the indulgent escape turns into a “Lord of the Flies”-style story of survival.