How To Use Decadent In A Sentence
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The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been.
The Silent Superstar
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The rooms are spacious and awash with brocade, satin and crisp white linen, with a decadent fur throw on the bed.
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It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody.
Times, Sunday Times
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Laughter without air and sunshine becomes morbid, decadent, demoniac.
The House Beautiful
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Long an object of fervent Gnostic and Hermetic speculations, it was now extolled as the ideal type of the human being, and celebrated accordingly in literature and art, especially among the Symbolists and the Decadents.
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The decadent West does not have many ideological weapons in its armoury but until recently, at least, freedom of speech was one of them.
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She had little formal education but travelled widely in Europe where her somewhat dramatic taste led to an interest in Italian Mannerism, German Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the decadents.
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Published in 1819, John Polidor's The Vampyre is the tale of a decadent, debauched aristocrat.
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Fries and slaw, plus decadent garlic butter sauce, also accompany the more than a dozen charbroiled items.
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Instead of trying to make people more virtuous, what if virtuous food could be made to taste more decadent?
Times, Sunday Times
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Wafa used the word decadent to describe the Oriental Harmony Journey, a two-hour, four-handed rubdown offered at the Mandarin Oriental in Manhattan.
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I saw it yesterday - a midday summer movie by myself, one of my few truly decadent indulgences - and found it surprisingly funny and true.
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It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody.
Times, Sunday Times
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I stepped in and soaked my body in the tub, savoring the decadent feeling of the water sloshing around me.
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Seeing as we were about to become bona fide artists at our next class, it seemed suitably decadent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marilyn Manson, a shock rocker hated by conservatives for his decadent excesses, was rewarded for his sins by having the number one selling album in America during its first week of release.
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When the patrons at his restaurant would like to indulge in a decadent potation, they will have to choose between Dom Perignon and Krug.
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The decadent sounding "chocolatey delight" flavor, not only has the same amount of sugar and high fructose corn syrup as Lucky Charms but also includes "chocolatey" bits - so called because there is no actual anti-oxidant bearing chocolate in them.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen: I Hate Special K
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So we stirred in a voluptuous, decadent rum fudge.
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Mint fans should try a mojito, the classic rum cocktail of Cuba, another delightfully decadent holiday drink.
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Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt.
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Later medieval chivalry has been criticized for being decadent and other-worldly, yet it never lost touch with the changing military dimensions of war nor was blind to its bloody realities.
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Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers: her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the decadent.
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Who'd have thought that something so decadent would be just outside prim and proper Edinburgh?
Times, Sunday Times
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Sipping a decadent tamarind margarita, I sank into a plump towelling-covered chair.
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Raúl experiences a stifling home life in what already feels like a hopelessly backward and decadent society.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One reality supplants another as a drab home is replaced with opulent apartments and decadent parties.
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Large checks, iridescent fabrics and decadent velvet are all worn with attitude.
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`Shut your yap, Caroline, the Decadents are all right,' Owen retorted.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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The story concerns a dissolute decadent who is enchanted with his beloved, Alicia's, form, but who detests what he considers to be the frivolity and shallowness of her personality.
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Measure for Measure is about an extremely decadent society, where the politicians charged with cleaning it up are perhaps more corrupt than the society.
Times, Sunday Times
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Decadent, adults-only desserts that warm over your soul provide an escape from hum-drum food found in university cafeterias and surrounding student-oriented restaurants.
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a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility
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Furnished in much red velvet plush, it's dark and decadent with a stunning choice of whiskies and bourbon.
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You're like a sun. Gave me the great semi-decadent people hope.
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Who'd have thought that something so decadent would be just outside prim and proper Edinburgh?
Times, Sunday Times
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Since every decadent man who pretends to have a plan and philosophy attracts followers, I will have my share too.
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Assuming that the transparency of the mind is not merely an otiose and decadent luxury, a device for self-absorbed wallowing, but that it has evolutionary value, knowledge of contents independent of attitudes is of no interest.
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There was something very decadent about filling ourselves with so much rich food.
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His work of this time conveyed disgust at the horrors of war and the depravities of a decadent society with unerring psychological insight and devastating emotional effect.
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And this was in decadent liberal California (though, admittedly, the most conservative part ...)
The nutshell
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State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.
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Beaches filled with sewerage: what a fitting 'epilog' to the decadent design and development tale that was Dubai.
TreeHugger
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The full range of vices attributed to decadent Roman emperors was to be found in the private dachas and public buildings of 1930s and 1940s Russia.
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These aristocrats are wicked, all right, but they're not terribly decadent.
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It is also superior to the whole grain buckle I made, although that is not surprising as this is far more decadent and less virtuous!
Archive 2008-07-01
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If novels did not uphold the lifestyle of the republic, they were dismissed as decadent.
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They're the bright, neon-green iguanas of mainland South America, garish, streetwise cousins of the clean-living marine iguanas of the Galápagos, with dangling dewlaps and a decadent string of fringe down their backs.
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Did he go hunting or riding or sailing, play tennis or bowls, and indulge himself in decadent or amorous pursuits?
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His Swan Lake sets and costumes, informed not just by the overripe sensibility of the Pre-Raphaelites but also by Gustave Moreau and other decadents, look breathtaking on paper.
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A society run on love alone is decadent and sloppy.
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Sure, passengers are still able to partake in strawberry daiquiris and decadent desserts, but a cruise ship actually provides many ways to stay healthy, on-board massages being one example.
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Restraint in dress represented a reaction to the excesses of a corrupt monarchy and decadent regime.
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Partly because the economic crisis has left us without the means for anything more decadent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Forget gourmet cuisine, decadent drug-soaked clubbing extravaganzas, and entertainment crossroads of the world for a moment.
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The resulting conserve is ridiculously easy to prepare (I made it this morning before heading out to work) yet looks absolutely decadent and rendered truly beautifully sweet, shiny and utterly figgy little gems.
Sugar High Fridays #7: Fig & Molasses Conserve
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Her aggressive titles were now familiar stock among a certain informed readership attuned to decadent works.
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Convinced that modern society was decadent, he was all for the noble savage.
Times, Sunday Times
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The January Dancer by Michael Flynn - Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy.
Books in the Mail (W/E 08/16/2008)
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Hitler and the Nazis did it effectively, brutally waging war against decadent surrealists and any other artists or writers they considered an aberration from the pure Aryan ideal of art.
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For main, if your'e feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
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And so much of Decadent writing is about sheer artistic concretisation…of freeing up form to stand on its own multiple, if need be feet, unapologetically.
Testing the Weird
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Ignorance may be bliss when in decadent times, but will not give you the tools necessary to thrive when they go bleak.
Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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In its account of the dandiacal erotic practices of Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes, the author established a link between aestheticism and decadent behavior.
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Fries and slaw, plus decadent garlic butter sauce, also accompany the more than a dozen charbroiled items.
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She offers food, such as what she calls a decadent sweet roll, that's sweetened mostly with agave instead of sugar.
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The Viking invasions he saw - like most of his contemporaries, in England and elsewhere - as a visitation of divine vengeance on a people that had fallen into decadent ways.
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Serve with roasted chicken wings (or shredded confit of duck if you feel decadent) or some grated gruyère.
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It is in such rare moments of revelation that a man realises dimly what it may mean for a woman dowered with the real courage and dignity of self-surrender to give herself to him; that he is vouch-safed a glimpse into that mystery of love, which cynics of the decadent school dismiss as "amoristic sentiment," a fictitious glorification of mere natural instinct.
The Great Amulet
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Instead of soft clouds of sweetly sour fruit tucked beneath a comforting blanket of biscuity pastry, the tatin brazenly displays its wares, stickily caramelised and decadently buttery, on the outside – the humble base reduced to a mere vehicle for the apples in their sugary finery.
How to cook perfect tarte tatin
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Well, I think the press - they're kind of decadent puritans.
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Dishes are suitably decadent, from monkfish curry to the handmade lachha paratha.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it is L-shaped and modular it is likely to be a contemporary design, which suits neutral, hard-wearing fabrics and looks fabulous in leather - any colour except black - or even a decadent acid velvet.
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The pate had pistachios in it and bacon wrapped around it and tasted rich and savory and utterly decadent.
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Riegl was thus enabled to explore and validate the esthetic structures of periods and kinds of art which were not supposed to have any - which were dismissed as ‘decadent’ or simply as inartistic.
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And, if you're feeling extra decadent, then adding a few driblets of essential oil will also give you a natural aromatherapy bath.
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The films featuring Marlene Dietrich add the paradox of the dazzling yet androgynous female who is simultaneously moral and amoral, eminently proper yet irredeemably decadent.
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Diaghilev, in accordance with decadent tradition, drank champagne during the first world war, and made do with his own plots and incendiaries.
Diaghilev: Lord of the dance
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West and Fike are quick to point out the decadent lifestyle they all led inside the bars, casinos and hotel rooms.
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Casinos sound such arbitrary and decadent places; nobody would want their economy's fate to be determined in one.
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Now that I'm all grown up, I have indulged both Mathra and myself in some adultly decadent hot chocolate.
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Fabrics and colours are luxuriously decadent: red felt, magenta georgette, misty grey mohair, powdery blue sheepskin and sequinned fleece knits.
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Since the early 1800s New Orleans welcomed those with same-sex attractions into a sea of fabulous architecture, boozy decadent affairs, outrageous parades, fabulous costumes, and gender-bending.
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Fabrics and colours are luxuriously decadent: red felt, magenta georgette, misty grey mohair, powdery blue sheepskin and sequinned fleece knits.
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You're like a sun. Gave me the great semi-decadent people hope.
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For main, if your feeling decadent, why not go for the lobster platter; langoustines, mussels, whelks, oysters all surround the halved lobster on a bed of ice.
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Presiding over the spacious Bar Red dance floor is the decadent ‘Gold Man’ statue, which greets you as you ascend the spiral staircase to the Red mezzanine floor.
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I think they are the symbol of a decadent and corrupt regime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ya está bien Chávez!, es increíble que te transformes en una ridícula y decadente caricatura de vos mismo, que todas las ideas socialistas se transformen en stalinistas, que los controles a la prensa sea casi igual a la censura empleada en regímenes dictatoriales.
Venezuela: The Simpsons Not Welcome Anymore
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Also included in the art of this period were images of prostitutes and demi-mondaines who became identified with the decadent pleasures of the cabarets and brothels of Montmartre.
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Today, Sin City is all about having a decadent and hedonistic great night out.
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It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has, with sheer penetrating insight, portrayed the decadent values and human failings of his times in simple but effective words.
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Beyond an intention to make something decadent for women—or "queens" as the "Q" in the name supposedly represents—Mr. Williams confessed why he designed his own adult dairy drink.
At Library, Low-Cal Liqueur
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The heavy atmosphere of the luxurious furnishings sets a decadent mood.
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In a Nutshell: Decadent diva moments mark this scantily clad Nutcracker, which includes Ms. Verlaine as an Arabian coffee goddess undressed by attendants as she bathes in a steaming, 200-pound coffee pot.
Where to Get Your Nutcracker Fix
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Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure.
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A fugitive gangster takes refuge in a decadent rock star's London home.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lots of times, gals get in hackles about voluptuous panty-flashing video game vixens and the game camera's decadent worship of their rendered flesh.
Archive 2008-02-01
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That the decadent and barbarous peoples will be crushed is a fair presumption; likewise that the stronger breeds will survive, entering upon the transition stage to which all the world must ultimately come.
THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM
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Single cream or pouring cream is used for enriching and finishing sauces, soups, stews, desserts and coffee or cereals for the decadent.
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His music is very much of its time, and I should say it has, in its extra-musical concerns of orientalia, hothouse sex, and Celtic twilight, links to the literary Decadents of the Victorian Eighties and Nineties.
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He stuck unswervingly to his opinion that the West was too feeble, too worn out, and too decadent to begin the war seriously.
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Even when gambling became above board in the eyes of the law, it was still frowned upon as either the pastime of high-rolling decadent playboys or the ruin of feckless working-class punters.
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I remember sitting on the patio, with the French windows open and a sprinkler going on the lawn, and eating the Cornettos and feeling like this was the most amazing, decadent thing ever.
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It lacked Tarana's homely gaggle of locals, but made up for it by having a 4ft kangaroo lounging decadently in front of the fire in the snug.
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The apple filling is baked into the cookie dough crust, and once they come out of the oven, the cookies are topped off with a bourbon caramel sauce that adds a decadent sweetness and butteriness to the treats.
Bites from other Blogs | Baking Bites
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The dish is absolutely delicious when made with 1/2 cup fresh sea urchin roe, as Lazarou specifies, and decadent if 3/4 cup roe is used, as I admit to having done.
Recipe for Sea Urchin Risotto (Ριζότο με Αχινό)
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Is not the very fact that leisure has become a subject of study a sure sign of a decadent society?
Christianity Today
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Bullock plays Gwen Cummings, a successful writer who shares an enviably decadent New York lifestyle with her equally hedonistic British boyfriend Jasper.
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Our style is decadent and tongue-in-cheek.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soft, low lighting adds a noir, decadent dimness to the scarlet interior, the ruby red carpets almost glowing.
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The crucial point, however, is not that Thurman's decadents are truly corrupt; they simply appear to be so from the perspective of staid Victorian morality.
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Photographs of her decadent studio parties regularly graced the society pages of magazines and newspapers.
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Her coiffeur La Plume let the last finely curled lock fall adroitly over her shoulder, and folding his hands over the paunch in his shirt frills, like some decadent Pharaoh, admired his work from the shadow of a Dara statue.
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A spoon of decadent caviar dresses up the dish.
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Blend glamour and glitz with decadent style.
Times, Sunday Times
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If there's one thing better than an icy plunge it's a decadent soak in a scented bath.
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She seems determined to make the even the most unremarkable foods sound gloriously decadent and sensuous.
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More conventionally, Squire Hamilton represents a type common in Hammer horrors of the period: the depraved, decadent aristocrat.
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He's foppish, priapic and urbane, making the word 'lacuna' sound like a decadent holiday destination.
Evening Standard - Home
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To reinforce my position, I have in my hands, Chocolate: More Than 50 Decadent Recipes, by Dominique and Cindy Duby (Whitecap, $19.95).
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The recipes sound yummy, but not exactly decadently delish.
Canada.com
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She had arrived in typically decadent Western clothing, tight black denims and an equally tight black tee shirt with a central emblem of parted red lips.
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When the Greek communities became decadent they fell under foreign dominion; Rome imperialized the republic, but never forgot how to rule well in her municipalities; the Germans passed on their democratic ways to the English, and from that source they were brought to America.
Society Its Origin and Development
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From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments.
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I spend time with enough decadents to get used to their somewhat skewed sense of fashion, but this young man looks out of place within himself.
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Given that it is unlikely that the State will wish to be lumbered with the crushing financial burden of this obsolete dinosaur from a decadent age, an interested body of Sligo citizens should be formed immediately.
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I spent a decadent day at a spa
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Prominent right-wing pundits like to portray the above interventions as woolly-headed meddling by decadent, smug millionaires.
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Something, perhaps, about colonial vigour providing a necessary stimulus to decadent metropolitan culture?
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If it is L-shaped and modular it is likely to be a contemporary design, which suits neutral, hard-wearing fabrics and looks fabulous in leather - any colour except black - or even a decadent acid velvet.
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Add a decadent top layer to your fall look with Karl Donoghue's taupe rabbit fur gilet.
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The more decadent option is an enriched sweet pastry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The croissants are flaky and buttery (I think they're the best I've tried in Calgary) and the almond croissants are unbelievably decadent.
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It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody.
Times, Sunday Times
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Note that though it tastes sweet and rich and decadent, it's actually quite low calorie.
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Your face is smooth and soft; your eyes are dark and look like a decadent pool of rich, sinful chocolate any man would love to drown in.
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The effect is subtle, yet it works, and while the overall result is undeniably decadent, the space feels individual as opposed to ostentatious.
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Fries and slaw, plus decadent garlic butter sauce, also accompany the more than a dozen charbroiled items.
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I do resent a Government Minister telling me I got into debt because I was flighty, frivolous and decadent.
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Whereas earlier decadents played with the idea and symbols of a passive, beautiful death, with Futurism it became violent, hard and cold.
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Default, unearned respect for culture breeds a decadent cultural licentiousness in which any amount of pretentious nonsense is encouraged and propagated.
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However much we are forced to recognize that reformism sometimes manifests itself as a sane rebellion against the apriorism of orthodox Marxist dogma, and as a scientific reaction against the phraseology of pseudorevolutionary stump-orators, it is nevertheless incontestable that reformism has a logical and causal connection with the insipid and blasé sociolism and with the decadent tendencies which are so plainly manifest in a large section of the modern bourgeois literary world.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
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Decadent brocade ensembles have been worn in all their glory, paired with peep toe shoe boots or flatform wedges.
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It's one of those films where the performers appear to be engaged in some kind of decadent hedonism, but their experience on-screen doesn't translate to a similarly enjoyable one for the audience.
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Cultish drawings and illustrations by a pivotal figure of the decadent aesthetic movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a long-anticipated positive stimulus, rapid consensus, definitively swept the decadent days sluggish, out of a round of predictable prices.
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Boogie Nights 2 is essentially a rollercoaster ride through the decadent decade that taste forgot, with references to shell suits, Live Aid and Mrs Thatcher, all soundtracked by hits from Wham!
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A lot of the club and rave scene is decadent and I really don't like this aspect.
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From time to time they lose patience and sweep aside decadent governments.
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Sheila is the breadwinner in the family, and deems Denise's education to be of more importance than the Decadents ' career.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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State-owned television used a film of the episode to accuse conference participants of engaging in decadent activity.
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What brings more joy than a melty, gooey, decadent grilled cheese sandwich?
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These matrifocal tendencies indicated a ‘low level’ of culture, their persistence a decadent survival from the past.
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Fantasies of decadent odalisques can be dismissed, the harem was essentially the domain of the first wife and a power base for women.
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Cultish drawings and illustrations by a pivotal figure of the decadent aesthetic movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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His father frittered away millions on a decadent lifestyle.
Times, Sunday Times
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I picked up all sorts of tips from him - decadent Parisian Hot Chocolate doesn't contain cream, only use unsweetened cocoa powder in recipes, Scharffen Burger cocoa nibs are currently unavailable so try Dagoba instead.
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It's just that the 640i doesn't have the turbo-V8's brightness, its decadent bellow, its sense of unstrained overcapacity.
BMW 640i: For the All-Business Person
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The result is a mannered, literary prose rooted firmly in the Gothic and decadent traditions.
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They were a bad influence, Paquita said: a decadent life and no ambition.
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Flavors that are decadent and dessert-like continue to be popular across the board when it comes to milk and dairy beverages, yogurt products, ice cream, and frozen novelties.
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Those values have more or less passed away, during this decadent cultural period in which we have lived.
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Fries and slaw, plus decadent garlic butter sauce, also accompany the more than a dozen charbroiled items.
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Fabrics and colours are luxuriously decadent: red felt, magenta georgette, misty grey mohair, powdery blue sheepskin and sequinned fleece knits.
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The newly opened Bobino Club in the Porta Genova neighborhood has luxe leather couches for a lounge-like vibe, which you'll be happy to sink into after indulging in their decadent aperitivo buffet of pizza and fritto misto.
The Comfort of Strangers
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Gysin's reputation as a postwar decadent precedes him (he was a restaurateur in Tangier and a Beat Hotel denizen in Paris, and contributed to Alice B. Toklas 'much-touted cookbook), but his oeuvre, in its many forms, has been all too little appraised, much less appreciated, as art.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last
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The birds must be taken alive; once captured they are either blinded or kept in a lightless box for a month to gorge on millet, grapes, and figs, a technique apparently taken from the decadent cooks of Imperial Rome who called the birds beccafico, or ‘fig-pecker’.
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He freely indulges in the decadent lifestyle around him, and dabbles in any drug his friends put in front of him.
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Most people think of chocolate as a decadent dessert that should be avoided by health-conscious consumers.
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Applied to the increase in decadent caesareans for women who can't even be bothered to have a free orgasm, the paradoxical injunction would require clinicians to tell women to go right ahead and do that, yes, to have their stupid, selfish caesareans, quite guiltlessly, as if it was just as good as a normal birth and the NHS really did not care one way or the other about the appalling waste of money.
Please, render unto caesareans a little less hysteria | Catherine Bennett
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But Furst also conveys the elegant, decadent delights of the prewar good life. One Hungarian character has his sauerkraut cooked not in beer but champagne.
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The more decadent the food, the boozier the booze, the more everyone will enjoy themselves -- right?
Clean Plates: 10 Tips For Throwing A Healthier Holiday Party
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As lush and plush as the name suggests, this Far Eastern-oriented club-bar is a mix of exotic Oriental Zen and decadent western Hedonism.
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But do not be deceived by the mistletoe and holly, the decadent displays of game and the delicious smells of roasting meat and spiced mulled wine.
The Sun
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This one is billed as a one-off, decadent celebration of the sensorial confusion and 'modernity' championed by the 20th-century movement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exposure to extreme violence turns them into machines driven by the will to survive in a corrupt and morally decadent world.
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Something that's slightly decadent and sinister for a secluded spot.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw it yesterday - a midday summer movie by myself, one of my few truly decadent indulgences - and found it surprisingly funny and true.
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In Storr's catalogue essay, we hear precursors of such comments across 18 centuries from writers who condemned decadent foreign influences, womanish decoration and blatant artificiality.
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Mr. Picabia was both smart as a whip and courageous in a decadent way.
The Good, the Bad and the Inspiring
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Bennett launched a crusade for "moral values" against decadent "liberal relativism.".
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She had even more cause for concern as her son's peers were none other than the wickedly decadent court of Charles II!
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We were set to shoot the gambling scene where I - a wonderfully decadent aristocrat surrounded by a bevy of beauties - am fleeced.
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I would have the Food Channel on in the background while I was preparing my food in the morning, watching Emeril prepare horribly decadent things that I would never consider indulging in.
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Thirty years ago Aron worried about a kind of hedonistic self-indulgence characteristic of decadent societies.
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Juxtaposing faceted semi precious stones, gold and gunmetal chains with cords and the signature BEX ROX magnetic clasps - BEX ROX is playfully sexy, decadent and timeless.
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Totally punk and 'romantically' rock 'n' roll; decadent and completely unorthodox.
Kansas City Star: Front Page
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The sax is a slow river, all misted over, in the decadent drift of summer nights— no roads leading anywhere, no want to find one, no dawn to come scratching at the window to be let in.
Exile on Main St.
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Its dark cherry and vanilla flavours are perfect with both spicy dishes and decadent desserts.
The Sun
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A spoon of decadent caviar dresses up the dish.
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I neglected my friends, started listening to her music, dressing the way she wanted me to dress; essentially losing myself in her vacant, decadent lifestyle.
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It's a bit kitsch, very decadent and retro with shagpile carpets and his recording studio in the lounge.
The Sun
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Bath desserts - talk about the ultimate in decadent luxury!
Delectable Bath Fizzy Treats
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While Stormy Leather’s black leather kilt is wonderful, they didn’t have it in my size, so rather than buy it and wear it a size too big, then have it altered after the event, I decided to forgo such decadent pleasures for tomorrow night’s holiday ball.
Sad News About Scottish Garments « Skid Roche
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Painting ballet dancers over and over again feels frivolous and mildly decadent.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had little formal education but travelled widely in Europe where her somewhat dramatic taste led to an interest in Italian Mannerism, German Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the decadents.
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A confusing dynamics of humanization of animals and animalization of humans follows, framing such a decadent process with paroxysmal contours.
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Pop music was condemned as decadent and crude.
