Yet "The Waste Land" begins with a clutter of Decadent elements: quotations from "Tristan und Isolde," allusions to Verlaine and Mallarmé, chatter about tarot cards and séances, intimations of vegetation cults.
In this way, the portrait can be read as decadent, as sharing elements with the fin de siècle artistic movement marked by spiritual and sexual ambivalence.
— Eric Asimov Travel + Leisure: Fancy hotels are upping their competitive ante by giving room service an element of decadent surprise.
The result — turning Brand's blithely decadent comic persona into an element of melodrama, and making full use of Greta Gerwig's extraordinary vulnerability and spontaneity — would have been a rebooting of Brand and a great and entirely justified boost for Gerwig, as well as a surprising, maybe even moving, experience.
François Terré, another prominent academic, lamented that "money, sex, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sadomasochism, a cult of the unwholesome and many other elements of our decadent society are included in 'Loft Story.' " And yet the show is hardly gripping.
"It's a more opulent woman, more decadent, but with the same elements.
It's a more opulent woman, more decadent, but with the same elements of humor, whimsy and irreverence.
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Fallas are exuberant, satirical, semi-symbolic, semi-realistic, garishly painted groups of statuary, made of papier-mache, wood, and wax, and executed in a visual style of gross & stupendous flamboyance, combining elements borrowed from Surrealism, comic strip, decadent baroque & mature Walt Disney.
