Sentence examples for decaying world from inspiring English sources

When a person became pure he entered the realm of the divine and left the profane, impure, decaying world.

For those new to the series, Roland Deschain of Gilead is a gunslinger, the last of a dying breed sworn to maintain order in a rapidly decaying world.

And yet the new that he was promoting - and that was partly sponsored by the decaying world of his Bohemian, unsettled childhood - was very much an establishment nationalism.

Two aimless young bisexual men wander a morally and physically decaying world of casual decadence, rendered in the gaudy colours that until then had never been associated with antiquity.

We live every moment in a universe of seemingly eternal thoughts and ideas, yet simultaneously in the constantly churning and decaying world of our bodies and their humble situations...

Andrew Pulver Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in a near-future in a disintegrating city, where lawlessness prevails and citizens scratch a living from the debris, this dystopia is the journal of an unnamed middle-class narrator who fosters street-kid Emily and observes the decaying world from her window.

These days, Abidjan looks less like Paris and more like a decaying Third World city.

Red (Transistor, 2014) A young singer trapped in a decaying digital world, Red has lost her voice so we experience the game through the mysterious Transistor who acts as a narrator and guide.

Carpet moss, any of the plants of the genus Hypnum (subclass Bryidae), which form dense green mats in many habitats throughout the world, especially on decaying wood in moist areas.

There are lovely parks and signs of decay, world-class museums and industry.

Through a thousand tiny, delicately described moments, he builds up a panoramic picture of a world decaying from within.