Sentence examples for fantasy of decline from inspiring English sources
The perspective is, in its own way, just as unsettling as any apocalyptic fantasy of decline and fall.
He indulged in fashionable fantasies of Spenglerian racial decline, imagining decadent Europeans or Americans allying with dark-skinned "savages" in ancient rituals designed to summon demons from the deep.
Unlike Germany, which has transformed itself through a national process of Vergangenheitsbewältigung ("coming to terms with the past"), Hungary remains in a wistful, toxic relationship with the nineteen-thirties, with a fantasy of Jewish conspiracy and national moral decline.
The show includes drawings that accompanied his sole novel, "The Other Side" (1908), a grim, dystopian fantasy about the decline of an isolated city named Perle.
Thucydides believed such moral decline was irreversible -- that the fantasy of absolute power leaves nothing uncorrupted.
In the period when features were infused with documentary elements, he was making a colourful Evelyn Waugh fantasy, Decline and Fall … of a Birdwatcher (1968), which had little of his personal stamp.
It's no surprise that Bond should have encouraged Britain to indulge in a prolonged fantasy of punching above its weight; we should expect it of a nation declining in power, as we do of a depleted man.
Such is the basic fantasy of gnosticism.
