Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
All I can say is it's improper to criticize someone 30 years later.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn and understand from both.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
Decadence is wonderful.