Sentence examples for societal decay from inspiring English sources

Mr. Adès and his librettist, Philip Hensher, provide a Duchess unbowed, pitiable despite her most monstrous pronouncements about societal decay.

His very early short stories, on familiar themes such as overpopulation, societal decay and so on, are as good as anything in the genre.

Not that Ms. Coppola omitted all the details of societal decay and cosmic malaise that Mr. Eugenides wove into his novel -- although anyone who speaks at length with her would doubt she possesses an ounce of perversity.

In January, the official radio network blamed the United States for societal decay, accusing Washington of increasing the broadcasting hours of Radio Free Asia toward North Korea and "massively infiltrating" into North Korea "portable transistor radios and impure publications and video materials".

As an entrepreneur, I've experienced this societal decay in many of my dealings.

Fundamentalists like BIOLA's Torrey, and the famous William Jennings Bryan Woodrow Wilsonn's Secretary of State, before resigning in protest of Wilson's pro-war policies), began to scapegoat evolutionary theory as the common cause of German militarism, societal decay, and loss of faith in traditional Christian doctrines (Torrey 1918; Bryan 1921).

It was about national identity, about the north-south divide, about the gulf between the well-off and the poor, about austerity cuts and welfare policies that destroy hope and break families, about a long history of societal disintegration and decay.

Spade says she decided to confront what she sees as a societal fear of decay, researching ways to turn people into soil faster, not slower.

The funeral homes perceived that these social pressures determined the extent to which consumers would be willing to pay for funerals: with the decay of societal norms, customers were offered "the simplest coffin [if] no one will see it" (Expert 4).

The original Deus Ex on the other hand is a game that deliberately builds up a world of urban decay and societal collapse from the very beginning.

However these chemical processes are also used to mirror the themes and ideas that I'm trying to investigate in the works, i.e. moral, personal, psychological, societal and political corrosion, decay and transformation.