Sentence examples for decadence on from inspiring English sources
Flowers-in-the-hair romanticism, also playing out in movies like "Atonement," serves as an antidote to the mindless decadence on the runway and on the small screen — Britney, Britney one more time!
I've got Jacques Barzun's "From Dawn to Decadence" on my bookshelf here.
"Not sure what is worse: the intellectual or the moral decadence on display here.
Seeing "From Dawn to Decadence" on the best-seller list, between Dr. Laura Schlessinger (of the airwaves) and Shirley MacLaine (of ancient Sumeria and environs), is a bit like having a whale nose up to you in an aquarium.
As the androgynous host of a naughty Berlin night spot during the Weimar years, the Emcee embodies both the culture of decadence on the verge of getting squashed and the dictator who is about to do the squashing.
But 1987, too, was a seminal moment for New York, then torn between new heights of wealth and decadence on Wall Street and the draining of jobs and taxpayers from the rest of the city.
He recounts memories of gardens he knew in his youth, from the dispiriting suburban rectangles of post-war Britain to the decadence of the gardens on Lake Maggiore in Italy.
How's this?: "From what I can see, the law attempts to prevent the decadence of western societies on the issue of homosexuality such as gay marriage (a contradiction in terms) and adoption of children by gay couples (a travesty, if people want children, let them marry people of the opposite sex).
That evening a few hundred people turn out, curious to hear Mr Rochedy and his star guest, Marion Maréchal-Le Maréchal-Le Penr-old niece of the party leader and one of the FN's two deputies in parliament.Mr Rochedy, author of a book on the decadence of the West and admirer of Nietzsche, is part of a phalanx of young candidates recruited to become the new face of the FN.
All the most red-blooded conservatives are left with now are the hurricanes which they routinely dub God's revenge on the decadence of liberals.
Winter may have come and gone, ushering out the season of The Nutcracker with it, but the decadence of ballet lives on through a production that brings sweets to life.
