Jaded, beset by financial worries, their marriage has declined into a state of loveless habit.
Published in 1967, Guy Debord's book La Société du Spectacle ("The Society of the Spectacle") is nothing less than a radical attack on modern society, in which, in Debord's words, "being" had declined into a state of "having", and "having" merely meant "appearing".
Zhang's work was similar to Ban's, although the latter fully praised the contemporaneous Eastern Han regime while Zhang provided a warning that it could suffer the same fate as the Western Han if it too declined into a state of decadence and moral depravity.
Most men hit their peak of fandom as teenagers before starting an inevitable decline into a state of relative apathy.
Toronto and other Canadian cities have allowed the homeless and affordable-housing situation to decline into a deplorable state.
The city then fell into a state of decline, which soon led to the loss of its status as capital to rival city Fes.
What voters want is leadership that will help them through an economic nightmare and fix a country that has been pitched into a state of sharp decline.
Both knees were wrapped in ice — the knees that had reduced him to a bystander at times in these playoffs, sapping his explosiveness and aggression and encouraging speculation that, at 31 years old, he had slipped into a state of irreversible decline.
And it was Michael Heseltine, a member of the Thatcher cabinet, who suggested to the prime minister after the 1981 Toxteth riots in Liverpool that the city needed investment, and not to be put into a state of "managed decline" as suggested by the then-Chancellor Geoffrey Howe.
The docks declined rapidly after WWII and the church closed in 1974 upon de-consecration and fell into a state of dis-repair.
I fell into a state of shock.
