decadence - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • art: JP: This might be viewed as the decadence of religious art from the intellectual to the sentimental.
  • time: It never has come or can come from conformity to the decadence of the times or the clinging comforts of the flesh.
  • culture: First, there is the decadence of the contemporary culture.
  • liberalism: Hence Appleyard's conclusion: ' There is a further important sign of the terminal decadence of scientific liberalism.
  • race: The decadence of the white races is clearly evident.

Converse of object

  • call: There also looks to be a nice new place that's just opened called Decadence.
  • capture: Mizoguchi's serene visual style and meticulously detailed mise-en-scene captures the moral decadence and emotional brittleness of Japan's post war society.

Adjective modifier

  • moral: And its moral decadence means a decay of conscience.
  • sexual: There was sexual decadence being advocated even by church leaders.
  • western: Now these men have all been very hot on western decadence.
  • pure: Anything over 70 percent battery power is just pure decadence.
  • spiritual: It is our belief that the cause of moral and cultural decadence is always in spiritual decadence.
  • social: Perhaps, in view of our ongoing social decadence, we have brought this upon ourselves.

Preposition: in

  • society: Inequality of this order is a mark of true decadence in a society.

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