How To Use Decadence In A Sentence

They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
But the lack of substance ultimately adds to the mood: flamboyant unconcern underlined by apocalyptic decadence.
And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence.
Descending downstairs feels like entering a 1970s vision of decadence – all red and gold sequinned drapes, geometric railings and carpeted walls. 10 of the best music venues in London
Anyone who has any acquaintance with the Bible will know that prophets regularly used strong language when confronted with hypocrisy or decadence.

My Silesian cousin, who now lives in Germany, told me to use stock instead of boiling water – well, yes, this is tastier, but I consider it western decadence. Family life
Degenerate, decadence and emptiness loneliness loss.
Then the inevitable and auspicious slice of baklava, flaky and honeyed, which brings to mind ancient pleasures, Biblical decadence.
But as they struggled to adapt to the modern era, dissolution, decadence and decay set in. Times, Sunday Times
The evidences for astrologic demonology in ancient Israel, when the nation was affected by Hellenism and Babylonian decadence, are found in the latter part of the "Book of the Secrets of Henoch" -- the "Book of the Course of the Lights of Heaven" -- as also previously in the fourth section which treats of Henoch's wanderings "through the secret the places of the world". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Giovanni Boccaccio, the great 14th century Italian humanist writer offers us a humorous insight into the corruption and decadence of the Church of his day.
He sold part of the lands, evacuated the old cattle, where the family lived in their decadence as a mouse (said an old farmer) lives under a firlot. Guy Mannering
In the long run, I'm optimistic that, as mankind, we shall succeed in curing this problem of epidemic, or endemic decadence, which causes these cyclical behaviors in cultures.
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of Roman decadence, along with other notorious emperors such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic
The directors shot the film on location in and around New York City, and you can almost smell the decadence and decay.
The country, they say, will inevitably now plunge headlong into decadence.
He had fame at his fingertips, only to reject it for a life that lurched from decadence to decay. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't have that luxurious feeling of decadence like having coffee and scones at 3.30 when everyone else is working.
The new air does but make old decadences seem more stale; the young soil does but set into fresh conditions the ready-made, the uncostly, the refuse feeling of a race decivilizing. Essays
The fact that he, Fletcher, could hear and smell nothing was simply a testament to the decadence of his senses. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
But I do recognize forms of degeneracy and decadence, which have been imposed upon human behavior, which some people mistake, for the essential nature of man.
This is all the more so because the temporal setting of the film is the 1970s, a decade fraught with problems related to moral decadence.
The phenomenon of decadence is as necessary as any increase and advance of life: one is in no position to abolish it.
The devil makes work for idle hands, particularly in pre-revolutionary France where pampered privilege combined with decadence to create a bloated elite, ripe for plucking.
The case looks likely to pit a government that is trying to stamp out Western decadence against a pop star renowned for her provocative behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
The word Crimea, Krym, sounds like “cream”—sumptuous, hedonistic, melting on my tongue, with a sweet aftertaste of decadence and longing. A Mountain of Crumbs
If superfood gateaux do not sound like irresistible decadence to you, you may, like me, be more of a bruncher. Times, Sunday Times
The goal of conservatism is to defend our civilization from decay and decadence, from a weakening of our principles.
We passed a deli and couldn't resist buying a small bag of dried porcini mushrooms to add some decadence to the dish. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, some observers see the availability of pornographic material on the Internet as partly responsible for many societies' moral decadence.
Rolling in wealth, the Church built great edifices and fielded its own armies and sank deeper and deeper into immorality, materialism, and decadence.
As an ingredient, it adds decadence to our dairy desserts, a sweet richness to our dairy beverages.
The small, delicately outlined figures grouped together in large, unshaded expanses of background space and the subtle colouring create a pleasing sense of lightness and formal balance, but the air of decadence is inescapable.
The festival also boasts the world premiere of American director Chuck Parello's serial killer movie Hillside Strangler, a true-crime tale of druggy decadence in 70s California.
Combining streamlined efficiency with abstract decadence, American Art Deco reconciled these societal dualisms.
'decadence' which has come to its perfection in uncivilised and overcivilised Russia; and the woman whom Ibsen studied as his model was actually half-Russian. Figures of Several Centuries
Sacks adds to this the decadence and emptiness of our culture, especially when exported and transmitted by television.
He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way.
For Webster's audience, Italy was perceived as a site of political intrigue, economic power, decadence, and moral decay.
Coming on like a gang of existentialists they glorified degeneracy, nihilism, decadence and alcoholism.
The final two books should find a captive audience in anyone whose idea of design hell involves magnolia walls and clutter-free surfaces, and in those who crave a return to decorative decadence.
Is our current food obsession unhealthy, a sign of decadence even?
Take heart, things are gonna be rough, in many ways over the next decade, the soft and spoiled days of cheap energy are over, decadence is about to implode. Most Expensive Living Artist - Lucian Freud
As an ingredient, chocolate adds decadence to our dairy desserts.
Luxurious decadence is mostly wasted on you, Virgos.
Modern decadence and moral ambiguity are brought to the fore, with peerless acting by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
He had not even climbed far into sensual decadence, a different mountain entirely, with play for the playboy tearing his crepe paper heart the inwardly lachrymose and outwardly debonair way that it did, with these bouts of sensing a woman's genitalia as vapid holes being banged as empty drums from inside by a man's stick; these conclusions that sex was just a bored erumpent man banging on any tin trash can in reach for a bit of sound and vibration, and brief moments of total, pellucid understanding called enlightenment as to the absolute absurdity of an instrument of urination being used for intimacy. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
This lower-St-Laurent restaurant-bar offers up a night of sheer decadence.
It is not surprising that one's responsiveness to a single word incurs a suspicion of decadence. 'On Eloquence'
Dinner here is pure, pure decadence.
In a moment of sheer decadence I eat cheese on toast in bed.
When the age of decadence arrived, people cut rocks from the mountains, hacking out metals and jades. When a Billion Chinese Jump
I still feel guilt pangs when I think of the decadence. Times, Sunday Times
The earlier anti-liberal revolt was marked by an attack on cultural decadence and a demand for a return to religion and order.
The incomparable, incorrigible Sally Bowles had me reaching for the green nail polish - divine decadence, darling.
The appearance of Graves, hinting at decadence, reinforces the notion that he wasted too much time playing toffee-nosed twits in Waughesque nostalgia flicks, when his range as an actor stretches far beyond billiard room banter.
England was on her knees, so weakened and in such a state of decadence and decay that any moral resistance would have been virtually impossible.
We have entered an age of trashy, casual hedonism in which mild decadence is all the rage.
Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Think Progress » Passing Health Reform Would Contribute To Obama’s Deficit Reduction Goals
The least of these illuminators, with his insignificant eyeless face, possesses at his fingers 'ends the maximum of dexterity in this art of decoration, light and wittily incongruous, which threatens to invade us in France, in this epoch of imitative decadence, and which has become the great resource of our manufacturers of cheap "_objects of art_. Madame Chrysantheme
Decadence, depression, depressed. Or taste a little suffocating.
It is too late to split art and culture, just as it is too late to split populism and decadence.
To sail in luxurious decadence, try the Symphonia, a 112-foot yacht that sleeps ten.
Are misery and decadence the consequences of maldistribution of property, or of moral depravity, the lack of moral conscience?
Best of all is taking the private lift up to the Penthouse, a suite built into a turret which combines cosiness and sheer decadence.
The decadence and debauchery of Paris was beckoning to him and he could hardly resist such open temptation.
The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction. "The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy fiction.
For Ungaretti, this classical perspective would always be a safeguard against solipsism and aesthetic decadence.
The method, as contradictions accumulate, is then rather fantastically hypostatized as the efflux of decadence itself.
It was the epoch of the salons, of the philosophers and encyclopaedists, of a brilliant society whose decadence was hidden in a garb of seductive gaiety, its egotism and materialism in a magnificent apparelling of wit and learning. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
Seasonal etiquette says you start pretty early with champagne - crack open a can of beer at the breakfast table and you look like a stinking drunk, but fire open one of these puppies and it's the height of naughty decadence.
In the fourth house I find Jupiter in a decadence, as also in a tetragonal aspect to Saturn, associated with Mercury. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
A lot of the architecture in the city centre as a whole dates from the turn of the 19th century into the 20th and is a mixture of Victorian austerity and art nouveau decadence.
To add an edge of untrammelled decadence, she planned to buy a magazine and some chocolate on the way there. JUST BETWEEN US
Europe by their love of liberty, and by their virility, from the decadence of an orientalized Rome. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
The General sits in his lifeless castle, the decadence of his environment acutely described.
When squandered on decadence, wealth doubly harms the under-resourced.
There can be little doubt that we, too, live in a time of cultural and moral decadence.
The moderne settings order the space geometrically and rationally while also demonstrating abstract decadence.
The picture is sexually frank, while expressing a certain repugnance at the decadence prevalent in Europe after the Great War.
New Orleans is - or was - a hub of cultural diversity with a touch of morbid decadence.
He began his respected career in the mid 1980s, creating gritty urban landscapes that commented on the decay and decadence of modern life.
Wentworth Castle was designed as a trophy home, built for the decadence and frivolity of the Georgian days and the glasshouse is a rare survivor of these times.
In those days of doctrinaire communism, vanity was regarded as a form of capitalist decadence.
Sumptuous chocolate confectons like Sacher tortes carry the perfume of decadence.
Though Pepys gives many similar honest and unblushing accounts of wholesome venality and decadence, much more is concerned with events of the day.
The empire had for years been falling into decadence.
Also, whereas eating your sushi off of a laydee rather than a plate has some cachet of status or decadence, drawing a female nude has no similar status in comparison to, say, a still life.
From the '20s to the '50s, Montreal was considered by American police to be a haven of vice and decadence.
Its Literature and Art have what one might call the kink of the unseen about them, and this persists even through decadence and affectation. Howards End
Forget the synthetic decadence of the Bravery - the real star of New York's sexually ambiguous netherworld is this male modern answer to Nina Simone.
The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity.
Daniel Hernandez crisscrosses la capital and transcends borders that have held others back—from the coruscating decadence of the party city to the outlying barrios where people survive by their wits amid the bewildering violence of Mexico in the age of the narco. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
Delicious decadence dripped from the setting, giving a perfectly apt description of the scene.
If, further, the political rivalry with the great and ambitious republic in America be removed by an Arbitration Treaty, this circumstance might easily become the boundary-stone where the roads to progress and to decadence divide, in spite of all sports which develop physique. Germany and the Next War
The contemporary preoccupation with self is not so much a reflection of the moral decadence of our age as a pitiful search for identity.
The twenties have spawned an image of bathtub gin, speakeasies, flappers, and decadence: in short, The Jazz Age.
This is aimed at giving the young people a positive outlook on life and persuading them to become productive rather than give in to despondency, cynicism and decadence.
Chocolate will never go out of style, and as the trends of indulgence and decadence continue to impact the nation's eating habits, chocolate continues to be a predominant flavor in new dairy products.
Stars no longer have the guts to protest such meretricious displays of ego and decadence with their absence, or to inappropriately hijack award shows for their own political purposes.
The decadence of morals is bad for a nation.
At nudging 78, I can remember a very different society from our current cesspool of moral, social and economic decadence.
Under its sugarcoating of carefree decadence lies a remarkably cruel and callous film.
On arrival the sheer decadence of this place gave a great wow factor.
Only in the fevered mind of a right-winger tortured by sexual thoughts he finds threatening can the desire of a population to be able to get married be plopped in the same category as the decadence of biblical lore. Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage.
It is the decadence of the modern bull that has made bullfighting possible.
Although I am loathe to use the word, the term decadence comes to mind. Archive 2006-10-01
But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses.
The Democratic Party was once great under General Jackson, but lately it has fallen into dissipation and decadence, so much so that it now employs a lowly donkey as its mascot.
Strategically, the goal is to pose a civilisational challenge and expose western decadence and ineffectiveness. Times, Sunday Times
On the other, Ramadan TV talk shows on state-sponsored television featuring racily dressed female hosts discussing intimate sex secrets with celebrities have sparked outrage from conservatives, denouncing what they call the decadence that is sweeping the nation. Statesman - AP Sports
The exuberant decadence of such pictures aroused, in the most famously prudish of English art historians, something akin to a sexual terror, so that even when looking at Bronzino's religious altarpieces he saw nothing but bodies orgiastically intertwined in a carnal hell. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Marriage was a key issue in the last election, with Massachusetts' gay marriages becoming a symbol of alleged blue state decadence and moral decay.
There is another dimension to the decadence of Britain and the Western world.
As China sheds its cultural opposition to consumerism, decadence and so on, it is quickly and avariciously making the move from commodity manufacturing to rolling-out consumer brands.
In a post-Apocalyptic world where supernaturals have emerged from hiding, wealthy humans delight in decadence while the religious gain power through temptation. Angels' Blood Countdown: Jory Strong - Ghostland ARC
Besides the mother/daughter role reversal, much of the show's comedy derived from women indulging in unashamed decadence, hedonism and outrageous, unladylike behaviour in the absence of men.
Drive" matches the nakedly brutal (an explosion of violence in a nightclub that evokes Weimar decadence) with the scruffily lyrical (The Driver taking Irene and her sweetly soulful young son Benicio—he's played by Kaden Leos—for a drive down the barely moist cement channel of the Los Angeles River.) 'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir
Then 4,000 bewigged and bedazzled ticket holders will enter the richly decorated ballrooms, dance floors, and courtyards of the historic building for a wild waltz of well-intentioned decadence.
The Cup of Decadence" as transgressional fantasy ... Currently reading and watching.
Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
The graveyard of decadence is self-indulgence, and Clark can be found wandering among the tombstones on occasion.
They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
The case looks likely to pit a government that is trying to stamp out Western decadence against a pop star renowned for her provocative behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing reveals the decadence of the regime more than the revelation that, deprived of fresh water, the inmates of the bunker were forced to wash in the champagne that their leaders had greedily stockpiled.
From the tiger-themed chillout room and metallic bathroom to the zebrano-wood kitchen, it's a whirl of creative decadence. Times, Sunday Times
In the middle age, the history of Braga during Visigoth and Arab times is very obscure and represent periods of decadence for the town.
Liberal pacifism remained influential in Western democracies, but it was also widely seen, especially in Germany, as a symptom of moral decadence.
The bejeweled extravagance of a dying aristocracy along with the extreme decadence of the brothel in the heart of the ancient city offer an exoticism that is antidote to what was probably in Proust's mind most abhorrent of all - middle class crassness.
The shape will flatter and enhance and the monochrome print has a whiff of vintage decadence. Times, Sunday Times
He had fame at his fingertips, only to reject it for a life that lurched from decadence to decay. Times, Sunday Times
Faithfull is entitled to such a vox, one of pure European decadence.
But Fletcher makes clear that these interludes were seen by many orthodox Muslims as periods of decadence and decay.
It was in essence a parasite leeching on to Western decadence and lack of will.
But as they struggled to adapt to the modern era, dissolution, decadence and decay set in. Times, Sunday Times
The popularity of Jacques Derrida's philosophy among academics is hard to understand except as a symptom of decadence.
Tianjin and Beijing are two other cities where the work of extirpating public sordor and decadence was successfully carried out.
Moreover, his public image was balanced somewhere between the effete decadence of a dandy and the stilted manners of an upper-class gentleman.
He also discovers a nest of intrigue, decadence and a heathen willingness to murder people very casually if they get in your way.
If you've seen the commercials, you already know that the film is an aesthetic marvel, saturated with color and light and visual decadence.
Unfortunately, the Romans, whether enjoying the decadence of a savoured cheroot in Egypt or the smoke-free asceticism of Rome, appear bound by the very buckles on their peculiar boots.
He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
This, however, is evidence enough for their corruption: my imaginary sources tell me that each month the editors cull their news archives of damaging articles, and then celebrate their decadence with conflagrant effigies of members.
Pundits said the decadence was the result of disillusion over Vietnam and Watergate; cynics said it was the result of too much money pursuing too much free time. Days of ‘Malaise’
This type of permissive lifestyle contributes to moral decadence and criminal activity.
The goal of conservatism is to defend our civilization from decay and decadence, from a weakening of our principles.
To me, hedonism and decadence are completely opposed.
He sold part of the lands, evacuated the old castle, where the family lived in their decadence, as a mouse (said an old farmer) lives under a firlot. Chapter II
We are, it seems, so far gone in sin and decadence that no repentance or penitence can be adequate.
They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
The Roman Empire collapsed because of decadence; they got too comfortable.
Decadence remains an acquired taste, whereas decency is as fundamental as common sense.
Gesualdo's later madrigals, however fascinating their scent of decadence, are an evolutionary dead end.
The publication of this Report merely hastens the rapid decadence of "biometry," the foundations of which have already been sapped by the re-discovery of Mendelism in 1900; but it was necessary to refer to the matter here, since in the advertisements and the other printed matter paid for by the alcoholic party, the public is being informed that the children of alcoholic parents have been proved to be, on the whole, superior to those of non-alcoholic parents. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
I'd start with The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, a book that was prophetic in identifying imperialism with cultural decadence and barbarism.
Mr. Armstrong is particularly illuminating on decadence, which he defines as "defeatism before the consequences of defeat have been felt. Hidden Treasure
For Webster's audience, Italy was perceived as a site of political intrigue, economic power, decadence, and moral decay.
Either he wanted to make me delirious with jealousy over her vile decadence or simply get my certified opinion concerning her degree of lunacy.
My suite was designed to elevate gracious living to the very epitome of decadence.
AVOCADO AND BACON This is for people who love their food and see the sandwich's potential for utter indulgence and decadence.
Pantheism can no more account for any decadence than monotheism.
This has been a long-term process of decadence, of culture and of economy.
Pottery and dyes are rich, luscious and seductive, marks of decadence and luxury.
Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence.
A corrupting influence on young boys (nothing said about girls), a symbol of decadence and degeneracy, everything else you can imagine in between.

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