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  • So, sitting on the couch by myself, not talking, felt decadent.†  (source)
  • Sometimes his men would display the fancy clothes that they said they had taken from "decadent women" to shame them.†  (source)
  • No one knew why, but everyone had an opinion, especially the foreign fighters, who boasted that decadent, infidel America was losing the stomach for the fight.†  (source)
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  • If the people of this decadent garrison city could only see the Emperor's private note to his "Noble Duke"—the disdainful allusions to veiled men and women: " ....but what else is one to expect of barbarians whose dearest dream is to live outside the ordered security of the faufreluches?"†  (source)
  • My father says that princesses personify the decadence of a vanquished era.†  (source)
  • You talked again too much to-day in the restaurant, and it wasn't at all to the point—about the seventies and about decadents.†  (source)
  • She slept decadently, eight to ten hours a day, could sleep anywhere—on a three-minute car ride, in the filthy booth of an off-campus diner, on anyone's couch, at any time.†  (source)
  • These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.†  (source)
  • After this, decadence and depravity can be justified!†  (source)
  • Talking to the waiters about decadents!†  (source)
  • The savor of meat braising in red wine and aromatics hung decadently in the air.†  (source)
  • Adler was critical of Jim Williams's "decadent" life-style, but he was just curious enough about it to get out his binoculars and spy on one of Williams's all-male Christmas parties.†  (source)
  • 'They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness.†  (source)
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