Notes for the end of the year: I've joined the Best of 2010 list fest that The New Yorker's writers have been indulging in over at News Desk.

The realism in Literature is well substituted when the writers indulge in introducing romance in it.

In lieu of the specific details that might illuminate Peter and draw us into his rending predicament, the writers indulge in remote, highfalutin metaphors.

If the writer of a "What's Doing in" must indulge himself in expensive restaurants, let him do it in a special category placed between "Hotels" and "Restaurants."

It is to be presumed that the Chief Justice was not setting an example to brief writers to indulge in such esoterica.

It cited how writers "indulged in the pathos of contracting the Twins."

Then, the writer indulged in some lateral thinking.

At a time when so many writers indulge in what Auden used to call "apocalyptics," Mr. Chatwin's belief in human sanity, his sense of some fundamental calm splendor in human nature are moving and refreshing.

The more a writer indulges the news media, Fisketjon observes, the more vulnerable he is to deflation.

"The Wire" allows writers to indulge in a playfulness with language that is rare.