Примеры decadence

• This provincial paradise would triumph over the decadence of metropolitan culture simply by escaping its infections.

• The decadence and detachment of the aesthetes was but the result of high capitalism and the necessary alienation of the worker from his task.

• The former is popularly associated with poverty and living conditions, the latter (incorrectly) with social decadence.

• Rather than search for solace in images of primitive virtue, the wine poem finds it in sophisticated decadence.

• It is he, above all, who represents imperial decadence and corruption.

• He criticized what he called "literary decadence," where meaning resides in flashes of insight but not in the text as a whole.

• Yet, the ghazal is the very opposite of that image of decadence.

• Part of this was an even stronger statement about the potential of music education to curb drunkenness, decadence and social disruption amongst the working classes.

• The past, furthermore, shows no sign of decadence: it must be freshly depicted in its original image and remain eternally young.

• The conduct of the principals in these cases suggested the decadence and corruption of family life among the socially prominent and well-to-do.

• The epitome of glamour and decadence before the 1949 revolution, the city was punished for its capitalist excesses afterwards.

• They are given to self-indulgence and dissolution or are infected by the evil of decadence and corruption, thus causing many deplorable problems.

• Man's total conquest of nature, it seems, has led to decadence.

• Gissing's responses to missionary aestheticism reflected his own general ambivalence towards the two models of practical aestheticism and practical decadence.

• However, within the monastic community decadence and dissension increased.