Sentence examples for social decadence from inspiring English sources

"It's social decadence, really".

Influenced by both Naturalism and Romanticism, he fearlessly dissected the social decadence of his day.

Many of Rops's etchings are erotic or pornographic in tone and depict an imaginary underworld or subjects of social decadence.

Social decadence, financial venality and political expediency are the real villains here, not just the immoral providores.

(His theory was later perverted and utilized by the Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.) Throughout Sorel's thought there runs a moralistic hatred of social decadence and resignation.

"It was the absolute low water mark of social decadence," said Clayton Patterson, who has photographed and filmed the Lower East Side for 20 years.

Alarm over social degeneration and societal decadence further fanned concerns over the woman's movement and female liberalisation, which challenged the traditional conception of Victorian womanhood.

Most Romanian literature of the 18th century presents a picture of social oppression and decadence under Ottoman rule.

Time, surely, to put social inclusion before defiant decadence.The oddity is that almost everywhere the European left is in decline.

It's a telling comparison: Buñuel's self-made financiers and industrialists might have replaced the aristocrats, but the old hierarchies, decadence and social stasis remains.

Recent history has revealed, to our great distress, that the social ruthlessness, brutality and decadence of the unbridled free market in present-day Russia has offered, on balance, few advantages over the harsh command-economy police state that preceded it.