Mr. Shibli fought hard to bring European theater to Iraq, angering some Islamic groups and others who saw those traditions as decadent.
Inspired by Venice's rich traditions and decadent carnivals, Giovanna handcrafts made-to-measure shoes that succeed in combining originality with comfort.
"What has happened to the great tradition of the decadent novel?" Lee Brackstone asks in a recent blog for Faber, bemoaning the dominance of realism and naturalism in contemporary fiction.
Fishers Island, 10 miles off the coast of Connecticut, has long been a summer community narrowly confined to a world of duPonts, Whitneys and long-established Yankee families -- by tradition a less-decadent Newport, R. I
If she is part of that tradition, she's a decadent one: in her performance, there is vitality but no joy, technique but no truth.
Into the breach of nostalgia for the old faux mainstream rushes the new genteel tradition, films that represent the decadent side of art-house movies, whether "Birdman" or "Boyhood" or "Mr. Turner".
There is of course a very visible tradition of the portrayal of "decadent" lifestyles in books, taking in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin denizens, William Burroughs's junkies and Irvine Welsh's, well, junkies, as well as the addicts portrayed more recently by Tony O'Neill and Richard Milward.
Certainly, this blending of TV traditions would explain Revenge's success in the US, and austere times have always given audiences an appetite for decadent drama – even if that decadence can't disguise the soundstages that are meant to be the Hamptons countryside.
Wilde was working within a tradition of erotic writing and iconography - decadent, sadomasochistic and sometimes misogynist - that gained momentum in the second half of the 19th century.
