Sentences with phrase «bourgeois decadence»

Abstract art was considered a symbol of bourgeois decadence, but Mr. Qian and his fellow artists organized their own unofficial exhibition with work that employed abstracted forms.

Eventually, however, all parties concerned move on in this study of bourgeois decadence and ennui.

Still less is there of Albert Camus's cheerless stoic call to moral sobriety in the face of bourgeois decadence.

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His thesis, fiercely argued, and indeed with an extreme of rhetoric faintly reminiscent of Nietzsche, was that the culture of his day, both bourgeois and modernist, was in fact so thoroughly feminized as to make the redemption of masculinity impossible outside of an apocalyptic scenario; and that this, and not some alleged patriarchal bias, was the root of all modern decadence (and violence).