decadently

Examples of decadent

decadent
He certainly did not think that its protagonists were decadent or degenerate - and least of all obscene.
The persistent interweaving of ancien r'gime oligarchies and the institutions of diplomacy in the end shared the fate e of a decadent regime.
If woman loses her self-understanding she will become shackled to a civilisation in crisis, transformed into a body, part of decadent femininity.
Whether the fact that something is overtly foreign makes it luxurious or decadent will be different for different people.
Part of the pleasurable, decadent sadness of this volume is in such disillusionment.
In their efforts to improve the sensory experiences of the poor, missionary aesthetes subscribed to a liberatory aesthetic rather than a decadent one.
The writer, however, views these parties as decadent and immoral, especially in a time of war, and they raise his ire.
Fascinated by the materiality of language, the decadent text frequently cultivates its own shiny, polished surfaces and neglects the plot.
Many critics have noted that decadent literature values form over content.
Similarly, neither does the "real" enter the equation in the articulation of the decadent aesthetic.
The ghost affords a pretext for cravings which, if illicit and decadent, are also ironic and witty.
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.
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.
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.
There is nothing decadent about this music.
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