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Sentence Examples
| 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. |
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| Whereas earlier decadents played with the idea and symbols of a passive, beautiful death, with Futurism it became violent, hard and cold. |
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| Pater's descriptions opened the eyes of the English decadents to the painter's enigmatic beauty, and he became a cult figure. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| To net a Millsborough gallimaufry of decadents, criminals, and potential rebels had become in a few hours his absorbing desire. |
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| There are nations not blinded to Science, not given over hand and foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents. |
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| For anyone interested in Wilde and the literature of the English Decadents of the 1890's, it will be entertaining, if only for the name-dropping and gossip. |
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