| Pottery and dyes are rich, luscious and seductive, marks of decadence and luxury. |
| Rousseau argued that reason had led man out of his innocent state of nature into decadence. |
| It was in essence a parasite leeching on to Western decadence and lack of will. |
| But the decadence and blindness on display in that nation simply mean that the inevitable day of reckoning will be that much more convulsive. |
| For Ungaretti, this classical perspective would always be a safeguard against solipsism and aesthetic decadence. |
| Either he wanted to make me delirious with jealousy over her vile decadence or simply get my certified opinion concerning her degree of lunacy. |
