They buy to indulge themselves and seek to feel unique rather than show off their wealth.

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Customers were soon lining up to indulge themselves with a luxury.

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Thus, prior to a glut of ten new countries joining the EU in 2004, existing members were granted a grace period in which to indulge themselves in temporary labour-market restrictions.

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Some time, with the rise of Romanticism is the early nineteenth century (Goethe was the hometown writer, after all), the students began to clear away the tables after dinner and indulge themselves in the mock-Medieveal arts...dueling, in particular.

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Scientists themselves indulge in political manoeuvring, trying to win funding for their preferred lines of investigation, denigrating their colleagues as they do so.

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In brief, the narcissistic parent treats their child as a proxy for themselves that they both indulge and manipulate in order to mold them in their own image.

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It may also explain why people in positions of power sometimes indulge in highly questionable behaviors, such as tweeting inappropriate messages or pictures of themselves.

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According to this web site, worker bees subject themselves to around 62 hours worth of meetings a month, events where they indulge in activities like daydreaming (91%), doing other work (73%) or sleeping (39%).

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