debauchery
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De Palma paints pictures that don’t conflict so much as they coexist, like two sides of a coin — purity and debauchery, the real, politically sanctioned currencies of this country — fresh from the U.S.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
“Something a little more wholesome than the debauchery of downtown,” says John Ingram, chairman of the Ingram Industries conglomerate and owner of the pro-soccer team Nashville SC.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Sager said he’s gratified Hunter will remain present in his children’s lives and hoped that even critics will see Hunter’s admitted debauchery as a blip in an upstanding life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Yet, despite the agonizing debauchery and hedonism spewing from movies, TV and music, recent events and proclamations from mainstream stars show just how brilliantly light can break through even the darkest corners of our culture.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
Dubbed the nation’s most eligible bachelor, Vanderbilt eschewed the debauchery that would have tempted other men fresh out of their teens and into a bottomless bank account.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
As the deadly bewilderments and debaucheries of recent history have shown, this problem is enough to tax to the limit the minds and energies that would propose to solve it.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the guardian of Soviet morality, junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists.
From Time Magazine Archive
The results, which ranged from strum-strumming stanzas to languorous rhythms, hinted at unimaginable pagan debaucheries, hymned the fashionable cause of freedom against tyranny.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. is still a long way from the rugged debaucheries of Restoration England or the perfumed corruption of the Gallant Century in France.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his prodigalities led to a most oppressive taxation, which soon alienated the people, while his senseless debaucheries, especially his costly banquets, disgusted the more contemplative of the nobles.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
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