Sentence examples for terminal decadence from inspiring English sources

It may be tempting to greet "Marie Antoinette" with a Jacobin snarl or a self-righteous sneer, since it is after all the story of the silly teenager who embodied a corrupt, absolutist state in its terminal decadence.

Every weekend until his death it became a place of laughter and gossip and gumboots and children, with friends who felt privileged (although they were never made to feel privileged) to inspect the garden and walk in the wood and sip tea and champagne and talk of everything except Michelangelo, with the Renaissance man who had been saved from terminal decadence by his Reformation wife.

And no one seemed to find it ironic to celebrate a riot that marked the end of decadence with … decadence.

To think that we, who sometimes regard ourselves as victims of terminal sexual sophistication and decadence, can still be shocked by the sexual morass and disposition of 18th-century aristocratic France.

Probably not, but this operatically sleazy study in sexual abandon and druggy desperation, in which Ms. Argento also stars, shows symptoms of a decadence that might well be terminal.

The proverb "Decadence may not be seen as a wholly negative process neither should it be viewed as a terminal state.

It's his decadence.

"The decadence of Rome".

Decadence is impossible.

Violence gave way to decadence.

Mishandled decadence can seem cautionary.