Sentences with phrase «western decadence»

Big Box — This temple of Western decadence becomes a battleground when the glorious Korean People's Army fights the U.S. military among its empty shelves and display cases.

So they denounce western decadence, but at the same time they fancy a sneaky game of tomb raider to see some giant triangle boobs on their PS1s.

Adapted by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price («Clockers,» «Sea of Love»), «Child 44» revolves, nearly obsessively, around the defining Catch - 22 of life in the Soviet Communist era: Crimes like murder, we're repeatedly told, are diseases of capitalism and Western decadence, and therefore can not take place in the worker's paradise Stalin has made.

Imposing and distorted women express their disapproval in little Marjane's sneakered feet and Michael Jackson lapel pin (symbols of western decadence), their bodies nightmarishly growing and twisting.

In recent years, Kirill and his «foreign minister,» Metropolitan Hilarion, have been mouthpieces for Russian president Vladimir Putin's efforts to reconstitute something like the old Soviet Union in the name of a «historic Russian space,» an exercise in Great Russian irredentism that has taken a particularly grave turn in Ukraine; concurrently, they've conducted a campaign of seduction in the Vatican and among American evangelical Protestants, putatively in service to a united front against western decadence and secularism.

I make no judgment here concerning the extent to which these attitudes result from their faith, western decadence and other influences, but just affirm that avoiding rational discussion on the issue is a dangerous game.

By barring images of immodestly dressed women, sex, drinking, and other varieties of Western decadence, the revolutionaries forced filmmakers to get serious.

For the sake of «conservative values,» they ignore the sufferings of their Protestant brethren in the east of Ukraine and pin their hopes on Putin as the scourge of Western decadence.

Not exact matches

They add with relish, and considerable justice, that our vaunted freedom has produced the moral decadence associated with the Western democracies, and not least the United States.

The nations of Western Europe, the nearest to the power of antichrist, whilst conscious of their own miserable decadence, yet shrink from the bloody servitude of Marxist Communism.

He sees them as stemming from a Western culture that has chosen to «live as though God did not exist,» exporting its ideas even as it has turned from Christianity to decadence and «intellectual cynicism.»

Richard John Neuhaus asks after reading Jacques Barzun's new book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, «Where does Jacques Barzun stand?»

In Nietzsche's vision, the nihilism in which Western civilization ends was to be at once a collapse into decadence and the fulfillment of an absolute freedom.

For instance, his best - known book, From Dawn to Decadence, is a brilliant synthesis of Western European cultural history.

From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present.

Opper chose to paint as if art history was a long game, which calls to mind an idea Jacques Barzun floated in his summary volume, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.