It felt like the decadent thing to do.
This glorified Nutella seemed lavish and elegant, the most decadent thing you could ever serve at a Christmas party.
Sure, it's not Suede's favourite Suede song, but it's still an oddly strange, decadent little thing that showed the way towards Dog Man Star and beyond.
It isn't Maugham, but it's mildly steamy and pleasurable, and it gives Toby Jones, who had the unhappy task of playing Truman Capote in the most recent Capote film, the chance to prove that he can do that decadent British thing just as well as Jeremy Irons.
"It honestly feels decadent to eat things like dark chocolate or peanut butter or coconut milk, and I'm not hungry like I used to be".
If that seems too small a hiccup to matter, consider that perception also appeared to have derailed the convention hopes of Las Vegas, particularly after a host of Christian conservatives complained to Priebus that the city was "a metaphor for all things decadent".
Ones you never, ever think about if you are a decadent Westerner: that thing that's like volleyball but you use your feet, that thing that's polo only with a dead goat, and American football, which no one actually cares about, except Americans and roided-out jock dudes who think rugby's for pussies.
The electronic music pulses, the lights flash, and the decadent-looking young things shake their booty in "Astronome: A Night at the Opera," the eye- and ear-filling new production at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
"I wanted a decadent but fierce thing going on," Ms. Roi, a designer in her mid-20's, told the appreciative Mr. Verdi, as the tape showed a model on the runway wearing a single earring in the shape of a chandelier.
