Sounds like a story of the slow inexorable decline of modern religion because it's nothing more the spread of mythology and manufactured difference and prejudice. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Since then it has suffered inexorable decline while the monkeys have expanded greatly. (newscientist.com)
And he's created a character every bit as iconic as his painterly alter - ego, one who eloquently embodies the anxieties, thwarted aspirations and stubborn tenacity of a rural middle class facing inexorable decline. (timeout.com)