Example sentences for: decadent

How can you use “decadent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rupert Everett turns in a "brilliant comic performance" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) as an idle and decadent bachelor in this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play, but the rest of the film gets mediocre notices.

  • (The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."

  • A succession of weak and decadent emperors saw the Roman Empire fall gradually into decline and anarchy.

  • The urban backdrop: Tak Fujimoto's sublimely subtle, atmospheric cinematography made Philadelphia look ancient, decadent, well-worn; rarely does an American film setting feel so saturated with the past and teeming with the footprints left by earlier generations.

  • Here, the energy is turned up more than a few notches, and, if you do enjoy languid days in the sun, likely it’s only to rest up for playful nights at decadent discos or other nocturnal alternatives.


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