The setting off of fireworks, bangers, crackers or whatever you call them is illegal in this city, but in Chinatown the police bend a tolerant and indulgent eye towards it.

Psmith watched, as he wrote, with an indulgent and fatherly eye.

Two maternalish Patty Chicks kept an indulgent eye on him.

And she wanted Blake to look at her with laughing, indulgent eyes, just as he had during those brief magical months in Vienna.

But if Redding and Rait were any example, the crew turned an indulgent eye on his attentions, perhaps due to her condition.

Miss Patterdale, regarding her with a fondly indulgent eye, very handsomely said that she was it had happened while she was there to enjoy it.

The Captain, however, regarded the lone bagpiper with an indulgent eye.

Gunter turned an indulgent eye to the proceedings.

One film even turns an indulgent eye to such examples of what used to be called "capitalist hooliganism" as entrepreneurism and wife-swapping.