Sentence examples for and decadence in the from inspiring English sources

But the overall tone was fuzzy, and the hints of languor and decadence in the manners of Mr. Collins and Ms. Kapteyn were too vague, too tentative.

Having fallen into a state of "decay and decadence" — in the recorded words of his wife, Catharina Bolnes — he suffered some kind of collapse and went "in a day and a half... from being healthy to being dead".

The Bund, a 3/4-mile length of Shanghai waterfront, was the epicenter of power, style, and decadence in the '20s and '30s, when the city was known as the Paris of the Orient.

The upper-class, in short, is decadent – and decadence, in both Suzanne Collins' books and the films, means flamboyant femininity.

The Nazis blamed the Jews for almost everything wrong with Germany, from the Great Depression and the rise of Marxism to the evils of international capitalism and decadence in art.

She made her name in 1990 with Sexual Personae, a survey of sex and decadence in western culture.

In all his years in Vermont, he rarely ventured into the world, and then it was to inveigh against Western immorality, consumerism and decadence in terms that showed little firsthand knowledge.

A viewer tweeted, "Anyone else secretly in love with lispy toff Lucy Worsley?" (She pronounces "Regency" — as in "Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency," which she also hosted for the BBC — "Wegency").

Desire Under the Elms (1924) presents a harsh analysis of decadence in the sexual and avaricious intrigues of a New England farmer's family, unrelieved by manifestations of the transcendent human spirit.

It is fitting, perhaps, that the era in which Velázquez lived and worked – 1559-1660 – was one of great decadence in the royal court, but also of crisis.

He had written regularly for The Yellow Book, a magazine devoted to modern decadence in the persons of Max Beerbohm, Walter Sickert and WB Yeats.