Sentence examples for material decadence from inspiring English sources
Will Self called Christmas "a hideous synergy between decadent immaterialism and material decadence", Jonathan Coe expressed his gratitude that there was only one of these happenings per year, and the collection included an excerpt from Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Intertwined with this family tragedy is the image of contemporary China – a butchering society that feeds on greed, deception, corruption and material decadence.
With the advent of economic modernization and capitalistic values in China, an undercurrent of sexual liberation and material decadence has also emerged, resulting in the return of concubines and an increase in extramarital infidelity.
While a strong message has become lost in a mainstream mess of exploitation, money, sex, material possessions and decadence, there are still artists who stand by their roots.
The objects, including a rufflike fabric neck pillow from Constance Guisset ($1,010) and a fringed portable leather cabinet from the Campana Brothers ($51,500, in an edition of 12), marry supple materials with extreme decadence.
"And that stuff was just pure decadence".
For him, the material decay of Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.
Throughout the discussions the major themes linking HIV to insecurity emerged and these were; congestion in camps associated with moral decadence, rape and defilement, sex for money and other material gains, increasing poverty, and the general breakdown in the health care system including shortage of HIV counselling and testing services.
As biographer Paul Trynka notes in Starman: "The thrift-store decadence and glamour of Max's would become the raw material of David Bowie's art", just as the rock music of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges would become the raw material for the more pop-oriented songs on his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
The material decay that had inspired him in Rome was the effect and symbol of moral decadence.
