Sentence examples for from decadence from inspiring English sources

Or perhaps, seen from the other side: freedom from oppression, purity from decadence.

The "historical Mission" at hand was "the saving of the Western Civilization from decadence within and from the barbarian without".

Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor star as a singer-courtesan and the writer who wants to save her from decadence.

And all the initial signs are unpromising: The Glass Room is a book about a culture slipping from decadence into catastrophic decline.

First published in 1857, this collection explores a range of topics from decadence, to physical love, to the bourgeois movement.

But what triggered the waves of emotion was coming face to face with the realization that Rio may now finally have a chance of emerging from decades of decadence and neglect.

8 1 FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE, by Jacques Barzun.

FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE: 500 Years of western cultural life, 1500 to the present, by Jacques Barzun.

FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.

Tracing a path from innocence to decadence, from German Romanticism to Modernism, this festival is a presentation of Michael Tilson Thomas, left, and the San Francisco Symphony that begins tomorrow and continues through June 22 in Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

The columnist remembers his father, who was a soldier, and tells the story of Paul Tibbets, who piloted the Enola Gay. 10 8 5 FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE, by Jacques Barzun.