Sentence examples for Moral decadence from inspiring English sources

"Right now there is moral decadence," Ajayi-Adeniran said.

For him, the material decay of Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.

"Not sure what is worse: the intellectual or the moral decadence on display here.

For them, abortion, gay marriage, and stem cells are signs of such moral decadence.

Two other recent films deal with teenage prostitution and examine moral decadence in this conservative, abidingly Catholic nation.

The material decay that had inspired him in Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.

"Decadence" is sometimes used to refer to moral degeneration or decay.

The vacuum created by the lack of central power and the general irresponsibility of the French court resulted in it gaining a reputation for lax morals and decadence that endured for more than 200 years.

Moore has been relentless in his criticism: in June, on CBS's "Face the Nation," he said that Trump, no less than Hillary Clinton, represented "the very kind of moral and cultural decadence that conservatives have been saying, for a long time, is the problem".

In "The Conformist," Bertolucci's 1970 film about the moral corruption and aesthetic decadence of Italy under Mussolini, the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant laid bare some of the psychological dimensions of the Fascist personality with a sinister precision rarely matched before or since.

The same is true when we read the possibly apocryphal story of Denmark's Preben Elkjær paying a fine for breaking a curfew in advance so he could relax and enjoy his night out; yet when the story is told of James doing something similar so he could go to a fashion show in Milan, there is a moral panic about the decadence of society.