This sounds luxurious, even decadent, this idea of having second homes, but neither costs more than most new cars here.
He shrugs off Henry James as a "sensibility wafter," in thrall to decadent European ideas, and dismisses his critics -- John Irving as well as Mr. Updike and Mr. Mailer, whom he dubs "my three stooges" -- as "insular, effete and irrelevant".
Here, it seems to us, is the Nazi idea of decadent democracy at its worst.
And in a country like Uganda, where the GDP per capita in 2013 stood at just $572 USD, the (fictitious) idea that decadent, wealthy Westerners are using poverty to coerce Ugandans incites a nationalistic defensiveness, galvanising public opinion against LGBTIs and their supporters.
While Fadele expressed some disappointment that the group seemed to disassociate themselves from dance music and reggae basslines, he concluded "'Loveless' ups the ante, and, however decadent one might find the idea of elevating other human beings to deities, My Bloody Valentine, failings and all, deserve more than your respect".
I had always been absorbed by the idea of the decadents - by those doomed visionaries, strutting peacocks possessed of an arrogant lust for life.
Taking the time to consider these ideas felt extremely decadent — allowing a little bit of the luxurious contemplation Shields would wish for all readers".
It was also, Sassoon shows, intimately bound up with the morbid Romantic fantasy of the femme fatale: that idea of an ensnaring, exotic, decadent belle dame sans merci which so exercised the contemporary male imagination.
A Roman could not get past the idea of a civilized, virtuous West and a decadent, opulent East.
