What's the difference between frenzy and indulge?

Frenzy


Definition:

  • (n.) Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage.
  • (a.) Mad; frantic.
  • (v. t.) To affect with frenzy; to drive to madness

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
  • (2) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (3) Updated at 2.49am BST 2.19am BST Before Rudd got into his press conference, there was a selfie frenzy on the oval at St Mary's.
  • (4) The fracking frenzy seems to be coming to an early end both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (5) In that frenzy of notes, I saw myself running from soldiers through the alleys of Al Amari.
  • (6) Morsi's opponents plan to organise massive protests on 30 June, the first anniversary of his election – a day that is the subject of frenzied speculation on both the Egyptian streets and in its media.
  • (7) Its use of Twitter and the hashtag #sherlocklives was rather more de rigeur, ensuring that the show was trending on Twitter as fans were sent into a frenzy by its imminent return.
  • (8) His team had been working on a protest-themed game for the past two years, and the frenzy surrounding Occupy Central gave them an excuse to release a prototype.
  • (9) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
  • (10) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
  • (11) In the latest CIA coup, America's leading spooks have sent the Twittersphere into a frenzy with their chucklesome debut on social media: "We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet."
  • (12) Let the games begin A week of awards-season frenzy begins on Sunday night in Hollywood with the Golden Globes .
  • (13) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
  • (14) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
  • (15) Obama's first visit to South Africa as president is going ahead as planned despite the frenzy of anxiety and attention around Mandela's condition.
  • (16) Relations with the former secretary of state soured over budget issues and the Ofsted chief’s reluctance to share the ideological frenzy in Mr Gove’s entourage that treated the emancipation of schools from local authority control as an end in itself.
  • (17) He followed ordinary protesters, including a teacher and a high school student, and captured frenzied clashes between police and demonstrators.
  • (18) As home secretary, Mrs May has responsibility for subjects that, in the past, have worked Tory conferences into a frenzy: crime, policing, immigration and drugs among them.
  • (19) An accountable, democratic government would have no doubt achieved a less frenzied, more sustainable economic rise, with less corruption and environmental devastation.
  • (20) Estate agents and homebuyers have reported frenzied demand for property in the capital, with homes attracting huge numbers of would-be buyers.

Indulge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
  • (v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
  • (v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.
  • (v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
  • (v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
  • (3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
  • (5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
  • (6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
  • (8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
  • (11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
  • (12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
  • (13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
  • (14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
  • (15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
  • (16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
  • (18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
  • (19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
  • (20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.