Sentences with phrase «cultural decadence»
«Astonishing... The Sensation of Sight introduces a rare and touching character practically nonexistent in modern movies — a character who resists with dignity our current slide into cultural decadence and who provokes our nerves and curiosity... The great actor David Strathairn and all the brilliant cast of this unique movie made the right decision to invest their talents in this project... Wiederspahn is surely a new hope in American independent cinema.»
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I saw a cultural Christianity that preached hellfire and brimstone about sexual immorality and cultural decadence.
Secondly, Muslim fundamentalists concede and deplore the weakness and cultural decadence into which the Islamic world has descended in the last few hundred years, but they believe that the chief blame for this rests on the Christian world of the West.
Not exact matches
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?»
«Our people particularly the traditional rulers must start to see the need in taking a position that will revamp the decadence in the system and place us above other races as regards socio - cultural heritage and values.
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.