decadence

Example Sentences

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As China liberalizes, some 5,000 miles away, the constraints relax and Ms. Chang sneaks off to enjoy a little Western decadence.

From The Wall Street Journal

For writers in the 1960s, middle-class infidelity offered a keyhole to deeper social themes—“the relation of individual to collective decadence,” the critic Wilfrid Sheed wrote of Updike’s fiction.

From The Wall Street Journal

Now he faces the merely gargantuan task of propelling his country out of “100 years of decadence,” to quote his own phrase.

From Barron's

Perhaps as a rebellion against her partner’s darkness and decadence, Birkin developed a personal style that exuded lightness, naturalness and relatable elegance.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cooper is very much alive and enjoying a modest and well-deserved decadence.

From Los Angeles Times