| I don't think of myself as a declinist, but the salience of the alliance we are leading is fading fast. |
| I have sometimes been marked down as a declinist, but this label misses the point. |
| Our present system of housing and caring for elders is declinist to the very marrow of its bones. |
| My use of declinist terminology notwithstanding, I do not necessarily share the pessimism. |
| It is these declinist narratives that are responsible for stirring up skepticism. |
| He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it. |
