| I don't think of myself as a declinist, but the salience of the alliance we are leading is fading fast. |
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| He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it. |
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| I have sometimes been marked down as a declinist, but this label misses the point. |
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| It is these declinist narratives that are responsible for stirring up skepticism. |
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| Our present system of housing and caring for elders is declinist to the very marrow of its bones. |
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| My use of declinist terminology notwithstanding, I do not necessarily share the pessimism. |
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| Despite dozens of cycles of declinist foreboding, the country has resolutely refused to decay. |
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| The administration does not need to be declinist to make more modest assessments of power. |
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| The influence of the declinist argument was also apparent in the 1992 election campaign. |
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| The chapter acknowledges the compelling explanatory power of the declinist thesis. |
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| The declinist debate does not shed much light on Japan's role internationally. |
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| But sometimes, especially when it comes to manners and morals, we find the censorious tones of the declinist. |
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| Labour's lost love Let's go German Sin-free ale The father of fracking ReprintsGeorge Mitchell, who died on July 26th, was a one-man refutation of the declinist hypothesis. |
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| Pinning apps to a declinist narrative of deteriorating literacy undermines parents' ability to give their children a balanced literary diet, and the brilliant work being done by innovative publishers such as Nosy Crow. |
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| Then, not even that. Of the column-inches already spilt on this topic, many of them are of the declinist sort: does no one bother with respect anymore? |
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| The gloom is nourished by a fountain of declinist literature. |
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