gone to seed

The outfit didn’t evoke a fearless mustering of Real American patriots so much as a Chippendale dancer gone to seed.

You can see it in the embrace of Lynn’s reactionary “Death Wish”-style narrative, but also in Brian’s Eastwoodian scowls at his trash-strewn block, representative of an America that’s clearly gone to seed.

The stadium’s origins date to the turn of the 20th century and a patch of land known as Agricultural Park, an aging fairgrounds gone to seed.

This Batman has gone to seed, bearded, shaggy gray hair rattling around decayed Wayne Manor until he’s roused from his torpor by the twin Flashes.

To drape a veil of verdancy over a world gone to seed?