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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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