Sentence examples for serious decadence from inspiring English sources

As any historian will tell you, it is a sign of serious decadence when a society becomes obsessed with its past glories.

"The Goblet of Fire" may turn out to be so tremendous that nobody notices the length, although personally, when I commit to a book that long I want it to be something worth some serious credit, like "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life".

Moore was a sociable but serious boy, and today he remembers the decadence of Mardi Gras less vividly than the disapproval of some of his fellow-Baptists, to whom the debauchery seemed like proof that Catholics didn't take their Bible seriously enough.

Pulled to various pieces at SAIC, the ground work was laid for her art now, which feeds primarily on the juxtaposition of trivial or aesthetic subject matter with the decadence and presentation afforded to more "serious" forms of art.

IM The Dedalus Book of English Decadence, edited by James Wilsher Dedaluss, £8.99) Dedalus is serious about decadence.

With television overtaking movies in viewing habits in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, the Hollywood studios were in serious trouble, and one of the best movies about their decadence, Vincente Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town" (Amazon and iTunes), from 1962, is centered on the destructive and abusive relationships, on the set and behind closed doors, that were dragging them down.

The natty clothes, available at Barneys New York, toe the line between serious tailoring and a just-stayed-up-all-night-with-Kate decadence (albeit in $1,800 pants).

Absinthe Frappé, from the bartender Lydia Reissmueller, of Central in Portland, Ore., yanks its namesake ingredient from the clutches of Serious Mixology and jostles it with cream and fine ice for a triumphant cooler that's equal parts whimsy and decadence: a push-up pop for the speak-easy set.

It's his decadence.

"The decadence of Rome".

Decadence is impossible.