Sentence examples for * decadent in from inspiring English sources

You haven't got the freedom to be decadent in the working-class sense anymore.

Huysmans soon broke with the group, however, publishing a series of novels too decadent in content and violent in style to be considered examples of naturalism.

There was modern music from the late 19th century and early 20th century, which would have been considered decadent in Berlin – but this was Krakow.

An impressive hot-water urn from around 1872 strikes us now as a tad wasteful, even decadent in its size and decorative flourishes.

Photograph: Martin Godwin Even for those who can't get enough of the stuff, the idea of buying art to own has always seemed decadent in the extreme.

Houellebecq may be described as "a tired old decadent" in these pages, but I doubt he's quite through with us yet.

Natalie Merchant, formerly of 10,000 Maniacs, provides a folky lyricism to the autumnal imagery of Sonnet 73, while Antony Hegarty and Nico Muhly give the insomniac ode of Sonnet 40 a decadent, three-in-the-morning feel.

Marcello is a journalist, a good one, but one whose work remains stuck in the superficial side of Roman life; the parties thrown by obscure royals and the holidays enjoyed by visiting American stars soaking up the massively decadent, Caligula-in-shades lifestyle of the time.

But the big party scene in Paris that begins the show's second half feels unmoored, faux-decadent in the way modern-dress stagings of "La Traviata" tend to be.

Because of that editorial decision, scenes of the trio in college usually have some sort of decadent submarine in the frame to stand-in for marijuana.

There is of course a very visible tradition of the portrayal of "decadent" lifestyles in books, taking in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin denizens, William Burroughs's junkies and Irvine Welsh's, well, junkies, as well as the addicts portrayed more recently by Tony O'Neill and Richard Milward.