Sentences with phrase «decadence associated»

To a considerable extent, that is what happened in most Jewish communities at most times, and it is what saved Jews from the decadence associated with affluence.

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.

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It is used as a reinforcement and reminder of the decadence and style typically associated with the 80's.

Nevertheless this film represents a clear desire for renewal in a career that has stalled because Lynch has relied too heavily on tropes associated with noir and sexual decadence.

The mood of his artworks allude to aspects of Decadence — a movement associated with Oscar Wilde and artists who favored art and artifice over Romantic description — as well as nihilism, the philosophical belief that all values are baseless.

As striking for their overwhelmingly yellow palette as for their fantastical imagery, Bohl's drawings invoke the signature style of British author and illustrator Aubrey Beardsely (1872 - 1898), who, along with American writer Henry Harland (1861 - 1905) co-edited The Yellow Book (1894 - 97), a leading British arts and literary periodical associated with Aestheticism and Decadence that helped define the last decade of the 19th century as «The Yellow Nineties.»