Their relationship was viewed with concern by her friends, who were not, as Martin suggests, mere "types" but portrayals of a narrow slice of wealthy white thirty-something Manhattanites: the Waspy gallerina, the liberal-feminist lawyer, the decadent power publicist.
Tim Appelo wrote in his Salon.com tribute that it was "mordant, merciless, [and] outdid Capote in shrieking truth to decadent power", while David Thomson praised it as "compulsive, hilarious entertainment".
In that, it was a departure from another revolution, that of July 26, when Gamal Abdel Nasser and fellow officers seized power from a decadent king and mobilized Egypt for wars with Israel.
Britain, "a coarse and decadent colonial power", has been a particular target for her scorn.
He was familiar with aristocratic society but never fully part of it: he watched from the margins, observing the decadent excesses, power struggles, extreme narcissism and the stultifying hierarchies of an ancien regime that was soon to be swept away in the revolution.
John Stahl as a decadent French king, and Natalie Klamar as John's exploited niece, also shine as, respectively, exponent and victim of the diplomatic power-games.
"Almost Famous" overflows with sympathy for the devil, but glides over the demonic power and decadent excess that remain integral to the music's allure and central to the rock star lifestyle.
It charts Wilde's journey into the depths, renounces his decadent lifestyle and celebrates the power of art.
Although circumstances sometimes made accommodation to political liberalism necessary, fascists condemned this doctrine for placing the rights of the individual above the needs of the Volk, encouraging "divisiveness" (i.e., political pluralism), tolerating "decadent" values, and limiting the power of the state.
They are born in austerity; they rise in affluence and power; then they become decadent and eventually decline.
Decadent, cruel men also rose to power: Caligula (37 41) and Nero (54 68) were so loathed that their reigns were struck from the official Roman records.
