Sentence examples for their decadence from inspiring English sources

There was a Wildean streak to their decadence.

They have watched the cronies of their own regimes growing older and, in their decadence, more arrogant and corrupt.

They were famous for their decadence, inclined to indulge in dancing girls and lavish feasts, known as dastarkhwan: tapestries of kebabs, biryanis, and curries.

"You saw with your eyes the alcohol bottles they drank from — those who claim to be revolutionaries — and the coal they used to light their water pipes," he said, citing as evidence of their decadence only piles of apples and juice boxes that he insisted had been found at the site of the camp.

Like the original viennoiserie, which were painstakingly elegant pastries designed for the Hapsburg court in imperial Vienna that eventually became indispensable to the city's sidewalks, their decadence is matched by the virtuosity of their construction and their element of surprise: They are, then as now, as much for beholding as for eating.

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 group, still irrefutably tied to rock 'n' roll, offers their staunch decadence and nods to their latest greatest-hits compilation, "GRRR!" (ABKCO/Interscope).

The school expels the lovers and trumpets their "moral decadence" on loudspeakers that blast the news throughout their small village.

The White brothers' harmonies are as tight as ever, but other than their sombre decadence, this is a stripped-down, minimalist return.

Vatel's noble cranium is mostly unsullied by the powdered wigs that serve as class refuge for the self-absorbed royalty and their attendant decadence.

Despite their teeming decadence, or more likely because of it, Mr. Crews's novels betray a fundamental empathy, chronicling his characters' search for meaning in a dissolute, end-stage world.