Sentences with phrase «decadence which»

The other 20 % includes a bit of decadence which we feel is part of a well - rounded diet.

It was four layers of s» mores decadence which was brilliant in theory... but... if you saw my snaps this week, you saw what happened.

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Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

This latter stage rejects transcendent values and slides into decadence and chaos, out of which is born a new ideational culture.

The warning was that these were «base sins» which would open the door to even more decadence, and they thought they were being sneakier and justified they would get away with it all because of all Jerusalem held dear to God.

They have not fallen away in those poorer, «undeveloped» countries which have rejected the practical atheism and decadence of the West.

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.

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.

But on the whole, the American scholarly scene is one of frenetic decadence, with the publication of vast numbers of articles and books which fewer and fewer people read.

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.

Ree's homemade Salted Caramel Sauce, made with salted butter and laced with a splash of vanilla, adds over-the-top decadence to her fluffy buttercream frosting, which complements the rich chocolate brownies.

One product that combines convenience with decadence is Sara Lee's bite - size and single - serving cheesecakes, which comes in flavors such as chocolate - dipped praline pecan, and toasted almond crunch, can be eaten right out of the freezer.

The combination of the deep, bittersweet and complex flavours of raw cacao powder, the creamy decadence of whipped avocado, and the smoky heat of berbere is one which I am powerless to resist — true confession!

I did however, find the inspiration from Top with Cinnamon's Healthy Banoffee Parfaits recipe, to include a date caramel sauce... which adds such a layer of decadence to this dessert.

My personal favorites are the Salted Decadence Bar, which contains dark chocolate and almonds, the Sweet & Tart Bar, which contains berries and almonds, and the Irresistible Dark Chocolate bar, filled with strawberries and pistachios.

He is the author of the award - winning book Politics in Ghana — 1972 - 1979, in which he depicts, inter-alia, the military as the bane of Government and Politics in Africa and recounted instances of human right abuses, conflictual politics, economic mismanagement and national decadence.

For well over a month now, I have been reading Bake or Break, drooling over all the pictures, checking out the recipes, trying to decide which one I would choose as my monthly decadence.

Which reminds me, in a free associative way, of something Gore Vidal once wrote about the US's march from barbarism to decadence, bypassing civilisation along the way.

While next season most trends seem to be favouring a crass reaction against minimalism and bringing the excessiveness and decadence of past decades, i.e. print - and vivid color clashing, kitschy pastels, sequins, animal prints, and many others, a lot of us do not consider minimalism to be a trend, which is not reduced to a very timeless style, but it also a very necessary lifestyle.

This was the festival with the single greatest Midnight Madness lineup in the festival's history, featuring Man Bites Dog, Tokyo Decadence, Candyman, Romper Stomper, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer and Peter Jackson's Braindead, which would ultimately be retitled Dead - Alive and still be just as much bloody fun.

From the grayed - out countrysides over which the sky has closed like a lid; to the drizzly neon decadence of Los Angeles; to a San Diego refashioned as a waste dump worthy of Wall - E; to the Ozymandian wreckage of Las Vegas — the film is a splendor of the first order.

The Boxer was bred from the Old English Bulldog and the now extinct Bullenbeisser which became extinct by crossbreeding rather than by a decadence of the breed.

In addition to enjoying the uber - luxury items in the guestrooms and villas travelers will be able to customize their hotel stay in the manner in which they are accustomed but with an element of surprise and pure decadence.

The Schonbrunn Palace, which was the Hapsburg summer residence, is dripping with visual decadence, complete with ornate rooms and huge, lush gardens comparable to those in Versailles.

In just a few short months the hotel — which cost over $ 1 billion to build — has come to defined luxury accommodation, echoing the great lodgings of the Ottoman Empire — an era when hospitality was without compromise and decadence abound.

Golden Arrow: Dining Decadence The restaurant, which seats 94, is named Golden Arrow after the famous all - first - class Pullman train service.

Architectural settings from Mumbai and St. Petersburg are woven into a bleak pinnacle of gripping remembrance from times of final empire, creating a universe of anxiety in which neither society's decadence, nor its burden of consumption, is sustainable.

At the EMST, the Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila presents a luxurious - looking freezer filled with jars of snow collected at the Sochi Olympics, a witless commentary on the preciousness and decadence of the tourist - drawing, nationalism - fueling events of which Documenta is but one example.

An aura of camaraderie, transgression, eroticism and decadence permeates other works on display, which feature Cambridge societies such as the secretive Adonians, famed for their fabled dinners in which fellows and old boys invite the most attractive male undergraduates.

The ideographic picture of the mid-1940s that preceded Abstract Expressionism applied the visual dialect of Surrealism, which had evolved from French Symbolist poetry, which in sensibility evolved from Baudelaire, whose birth and whose subsequent taste for decadence correlates with Goya's late work.

His first novel is Sniper, and other books include Budget Decadence (2nd Cannons Publications), Pattern Book (Insert Blanc Press) and Landscape (Kolapsomal Press)-- which was included in Martin Parr's The Photobook: A History Volume III (Phaidon).

Working with the central idea of the constructed image of a rose with all its itinerant histories and meanings, etc. the works in this exhibition, which include Mark Dutcher's lovely albeit sorrowful rosebush made of colored wax and Sabina Ott's Mater Rosa I from a series of lithographs that depict the rose as a strangely regressive shape, mirroring the circle, in some way echo both the fragility and decadence of the rose as a central and narrative trope in our ever - shifting human history.

But perhaps «documentary style» reached its zenith in the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher and the early works of their students — like Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth or Thomas Ruff, to cite only those three — which themselves embody not only the greatness, but also the decadence of that style.

Exhausted by the V&D warehouse threesome, it's tempting to take a seat on Lucazs Monroe's giant chair, which exudes a cool decadence thanks to its metallic components: what the designer refers to as the «invisible materials of interstitial architecture».

He emphasizes this and attendant associations of of artificiality and decadence in his choice of over-the-top colors with such names as «Plastic Artichoke» or «All Revved Up,» which often wind up as titles.

During his lifetime, Goya also made several series of «grabados», etchings which depicted the decadence of society and the horrors of war.

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.

Or sustained strong skepticism of an established culture (maybe due to decadence) can create conditions in which a breakaway culture eventually arises32.

We love Apollo Blinds «range of blinds for autumn / winter, which focus around the themes of Hedgerow, Refined Rooms, Opulent Decadence and Autumnal Earthenware.