Actually, it's about two rotten institutions – a vile club full of decadence and privilege, and an even viler marriage – the Lucans' – full of hatred and abuse.
This masked opera ball is all too real, full of decadence and brilliantly summed up in the divertissement: a Russian dance that becomes a strip tease, an invasion of can-can girls (dancing to the tarantella!), and best of all, an overcooked Spanish dance for a smirking and shoving trio.
Premise: German police investigate crimes in Berlin amid years full of decadence.
Candlestick Park itself is an abysmal structure, full of decadence and resembling more a relic of a stadium that belonged 50 years ago.
Mr. Cooper did his own 360 and headed to the safety of the Ritz, where the full-on decadence and celebrity culture of the modern political convention had been on eloquent display in the lobby all week.
As for the time (the summer of '63), well, it's in the salad days of Swinging England, innit?, when a heady new sense of license scents the air, but the full rot of decadence hasn't set in.
The court of Louis XVI was full of cake-eating decadence, which offended the sturdy mores of the French bourgeoisie.
(The song included the well-known couplet, "Everybody tryna get that check from FEMA/ So he can go and score him some co-ca-een-uh"). And much of the music portrays New Orleans as a place full of violence and decadence: expensive teeth, cheap women, "choppers" (machine guns) everywhere.
Where the standard Oxford aesthete of the 1920s had been showily dissipated, full of wild talk about decadence and beauty, Auden was preaching a new gospel of icy austerity and self-control.
The 45-50 calorie frozen Greek yogurt bars don't skimp on flavor or creamy texture; they have half the calories of other Yasso bars but all the flavor and decadence of Yasso's full-size offerings.
