Sentences with phrase «sexual decadence»

Simon Sebag Montefiore's gripping chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire - building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, with a global cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy and Pushkin, to Bismarck, Lincoln, Queen Victoria and Lenin.

Simon Sebag Montefiore's dazzling epic reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire - building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence, and wild extravagance.

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 early scenes in «Revenge» have a sensual pop to them, with Robrecht Heyvaert's camera fusing the sculpted desert landscapes of the exterior with the sexual decadence of lovers on a getaway.

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We have published many articles on the polymorphous perversities of multiculturalism, deconstructionism, sexual liberationism, and other causes championed by the apostles of decadence and debonair nihilism.

The excuse of «personal freedom» often results in decadence, selfishness, greed, gluttony, self - centeredness, sexual - immorality, misuse of money, mistreatment of others, and a wide variety of other sins of the flesh (see The Myth of a Christian Religion, p. 85).

I saw a cultural Christianity that preached hellfire and brimstone about sexual immorality and cultural decadence.

Her six books are Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990); Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992); Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (1994); The Birds, a study of Alfred Hitchcock published in 1998 by the British Film Institute in its Film Classics Series; Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty - Three of the World's Best Poems (2005), and Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars (2012).

Sexual confusion, mistaken identity, decadence, and lost innocence are among the themes Nir Hod confronts in his work, motifs that animated his earlier production of poetry, music, sculpture, and photographs and imbue his recent «Genius» (2008 - 2011) paintings.