Sentence examples for decadent world from inspiring English sources

This," he continues, waving his hand at the dancers, "is a more decadent world.

Both lose their daughters in a terrorist attack on the culturally and technologically sophisticated but decadent world of Caprica.

His 1990s trilogy, Some Hope, introduced the reader to the privileged and decadent world of the Melrose family.

The central work of my show is a video that follows a woman who climbs from the mangroves and discovers a decadent world.

The oozing walls and falling plaster are a vivid image of a decadent world blasted into smithereens by the South's defeat.

Despite the decadent world she creates in her paintings, she represents a far tamer kind of loft resident than the unmoored types who pioneered this style of living.

This world, like almost any decadent reality with its perversions and superstitions, was absolutely saturated with melancholy.

The book is a sensitive portrayal of a boy's search for his father and his own sexual identity through a nightmarishly decadent Southern world.

The second school is hopeful — but only because these intellectuals foresee ruin, too, and can hardly wait for the decadent modern world to be replaced by one more to their liking.

Adherents wish to present scepticism toward the supernatural as the result of science's progressive eclipse of religion, and the religious wish to see it as a pathological symptom of a decadent western world consumed by capitalism.

It was a virtuosic display — a warren of varied spaces that included a motel check-in counter, a hippie hide-out and an abandoned meth lab — that was perfectly suited to that decadent art-world moment and that piggybacked on the extreme environments of artists like Mike Nelson, Christoph Büchel and Gregor Schneider.