Sentence examples for decadence into from inspiring English sources
Nonetheless, he managed to turn decadence into something of a business proposition.
Decades later, Ralph Ellison remembered him as a bad influence, an unsavory character who "introduced a note of decadence into Afro-American literary matters which was not needed".
And all the initial signs are unpromising: The Glass Room is a book about a culture slipping from decadence into catastrophic decline.
Behind a shopping mall, tucked into the corner of the South Street Seaport, is Spiegelworld, which is presenting among its acts a family-unfriendly one-ring circus featuring two separate shows that translate European decadence into a raunchy American aesthetic.
The wives are expressly said to be chaste, and the adoption of their names by whores in a brothel symbolises the perversion and decadence into which the city had fallen before it surrendered to Islam.
(Anderson Jake Shimabukuruu (Saturday) The ukulele virtuoso from Hawaii suffuses psychedelic decadence into his stereotypically fey instrument of choice; his slick four-string renditions of rock anthems, from the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," course along on a deft musicianship that evades mere novelty.
Opulence tumbled into decadence in Scriabin's priapic Fourth Symphony, "The Poem of Ecstasy", its dialogue between throbbing force and panting pliancy far too revealing of the composer's sweaty theories on "the Male-Creator and the Woman-World".
They were filmed apart from the rest of the cast on a ranch in California's Simi Valley, and we see the sad, loving father descend into decadence in front of the despairing mother, played by a beauteous Ruth Wilson, and the young sisters.
But it's got decadence nailed into its very joists.
Overindulgence at its best turns us into "happy idiots" and at its worst, drags us down into decadence, hedonism, and a failure of self-mastery that he scorned as the ugly side of humanity.
— and its short slide into decadence.
