| The declinist debate does not shed much light on Japan's role internationally. |
| But sometimes, especially when it comes to manners and morals, we find the censorious tones of the declinist. |
| Despite dozens of cycles of declinist foreboding, the country has resolutely refused to decay. |
| He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it. |
| The chapter acknowledges the compelling explanatory power of the declinist thesis. |
| The influence of the declinist argument was also apparent in the 1992 election campaign. |
