There is nothing decadent about this music.
Soap operas and sports programs, for instance, avoided rock music until the 1980s because it was perceived as too decadent for those historically conservative genres.
These other fantasies of the decadent imagination are also "seminal," but only in the sense of providing a basis from which to rethink psychoanalysis in terms of what it excludes.
He might have said "moral neutrality" or "moral bankruptcy," but he explicitly locates the decadent's sin in his perfect aesthetic design of the crime.
The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit and decadent, are also ironic and witty.
Similarly, neither does the "real" enter the equation in the articulation of the decadent aesthetic.
Many critics have noted that decadent literature values form over content.
Fascinated by the materiality of language, the decadent text frequently cultivates its own shiny, polished surfaces and neglects the plot.
