| It was now extolled as the ideal type of the human being, and celebrated accordingly in literature and art, especially among the Symbolists and the Decadents. |
| Whereas earlier decadents played with the idea and symbols of a passive, beautiful death, with Futurism it became violent, hard and cold. |
| To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire. |
| I spend time with enough decadents to get used to their somewhat skewed sense of fashion, but this young man looks out of place within himself. |
| The play is lurid and sadomasochistic, the delight of Parisian decadents at the time, but slow, obvious, and overdone, as Wilde always was whenever he wrote tragedy. |
| Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure. |
