Sentence examples for with the decadence from inspiring English sources
CONSERVATIVE Americans like to contrast the vigour and virility of their own country with the decadence and decline of Europe.
Each couple had one, and so did my mother, who was having a problem with the decadence level.
"Passional Christi und Antichristi", for example, was a series of images contrasting the piety of Christ with the decadence and corruption of the pope.
When he is not riding horses without his shirt on, Putin presents himself as the champion of Russian orthodoxy doing battle with the decadence of a degenerate west.
In contrasting the prosperity of the nation under his earliest predecessors with the decadence into which it had fallen at the time of his own accession, Telipinus provides a useful though not always reliable summary of early Hittite history: Formerly Labarnas was Great King; and then his sons, his brothers, his connections by marriage, his blood-relations and his soldiers were united.
The wild plot teeters as it ascends to its Grand Guignol climax – a little too in love with the decadence and grand hotels it ultimately condemns, but the point is that decadence itself is not our problem so much as the fact that we can never all practise it.
If some of the pieces — like the Japanese cranes flying over a bulbous Victorian vase or a fan decorated with bats — suggest the decadence of the Aesthetic Movement, there are enough fine pieces to explain how aestheticism ultimately covered every aspect of the decorative arts.
Winter may have come and gone, ushering out the season of The Nutcracker with it, but the decadence of ballet lives on through a production that brings sweets to life.
Masked guests arrived at the hotel in masks, with some playing on the decadence of disguise, choosing not to reveal their faces until the night's end.
Occasionally he'd go to Paris and explode with the lustful decadence of a heavy metal rock star on tour.
The convention's Homocon 2012 party did manage to smoothly blend strait-laced Republican mores with the lowbrow decadence that characterizes Ybor City, Tampa's nightclub district.
