Sentence examples for a decadence from inspiring English sources

Better yet, it's from a decadence just like ours, brimming with risky sex, pretentious food and self-concern.

The young artist plainly aspired to a decadence that was both sassy and divine — most blatantly in homoerotic drawings that he tricked out with imitation gold leaf.

CrossFit's motto Again, faster"—expresses a perverse insatiability for self-improvement, which is a decadence of a sort, but not in the usual New Orleans sense.

The retreat from child rearing is, at some level, a symptom of late-modern exhaustion — a decadence that first arose in the West but now haunts rich societies around the globe.

Probably not, but this operatically sleazy study in sexual abandon and druggy desperation, in which Ms. Argento also stars, shows symptoms of a decadence that might well be terminal.

Saturday includes a meet-and-greet with cast members of "The L Word," and a "Decadence at Caesars" party with Jai Rodriguez ("Queer Eye for the Straight Guy") and Lance Bass ('N Sync) as hosts.

Robert Dominguez, the writer and director, aims to conjure a decadence-teetering-on-the-brink vibe similar to that of "Cabaret," which is set in a comparably shoddy nightclub in Weimar Germany.

The improvement in the steaks has made it easier to appreciate the restaurant's other virtues: the spaciousness and comfort of its handsome, dramatically scaled dining room; the unassailable quality of its raw bar selections; its gigantic, crunchy onion rings, some of the best in the city; its fried bone marrow appetizer, a decadence-squared dream.

Was there a sense of indulging in end-of-an-era decadence because there might not be another opportunity?

While Moscow's rich work off a decade of decadence, the rest of Russia is still barely earning a living.

W ho knows if there's a deep, subliminal connection between a decade and decadence?