Connor O'Neill of The Miscellany News wrote that, "by funneling [the primary means of R&B decadence] through his diverse and diverging palette, Ocean literalizes both his nostalgic impulses and the odd future of which he is a part".
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Much like his friends' self-fashioned identities in the nightclubs, Sullivan constructs his own persona as a witty, queer, and unquestionably Southern flâneur, wandering through the decadence of 1980s nightlife.
But Boatbound brings giddy decadence to the average joe through collaborate consumption.
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.
If it is all overdone, that's how Mr. Schrader likes his decadence; ripe and toxic, it seeps through the gold-trimmed furniture and into the water supply.
Instead it should be viewed through the lens of decadence within the neo-conservative Catholic intelligentsia in the US during the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
Cernat concedes that the Péladan visit was important for promoting new cultural trends, specifically the notions of art for art's sake and decadence, even though this was done "through the means of politics [italics in the original]".
The columnist saw namby-pamby decadence encroaching and harrumphed: "Did we sail through the gate of Suez bent on pleasure?"Well, yes, at least partly.
(Smith)20110616 Galleries: 57th Street 'Decadence and Decay: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz' (through June 24) This seductively titled show of 65 works by these three Weimar-era luminaries complements the Museum of Modern Art's current show of German Expressionist prints.
