Is our cultural decadence the product of political malaise or is our political malaise the product of cultural decadence?
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Her best book remains her first, "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson" (1990), a surprise academic-press best seller about decadence in Western art.
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It's like they are on display as trophies of decadence.
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When it comes to lunch, many of us forego decadence.
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You go, Taurus, killin' it with your dedication to decadence!
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The story features gamblers, Gypsies, jilted lovers and general decadence.
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Embrace the unexpected details, flaws and decadence of it all.
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"It's about desperation, decadence, depression and rage," said the Rev.
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Pop fought back with party, sex, and cheesy, unbridled decadence.
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Regardless, the wonder of eggnog remains in its bizarre decadence.
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Visiting these places isn't just an exercise in pre-apocalyptic decadence.
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Aedirn itself is sliding into political irrelevance to match its decadence.
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The result is a howl against the "decadence" of modern capitalism.
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Without understanding what capitalism means, we've vaulted straight to postcapitalist decadence.
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Some collections bowed to an unbridled romanticism that bordered on decadence.
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There's an opulence, a sort of decadence, to the Last Resort.
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The hash brown elevates the massive mount of deep-fried decadence.
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America has reached Glubb's final age of empires: you are peak decadence.
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Enough with the quest for ultimate authenticity: Bring on the California decadence.
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To me, this photo represents the decadence of this day and age.
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Fidel Castro had banned the Rolling Stones as agents of capitalist decadence.
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Southern Decadence in New Orleans, the Lazy Bear Weekend in Guerneville, Calif.
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Any form of music has to come with an element of decadence.
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Or is that kind of decadence only reserved for the first three?
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BRAZILLIONAIRESWealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American CountryBy Alex Cuadros346 pp.
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An 18-reais petite molten chocolate cake is pure coma-inducing decadence.
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Instead, factional feuds are leading to daily accusations of corruption and decadence.
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Yet for all of their decadence, Khouri's works have a certain restraint.
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A bucket o' decadence It's over five pounds of organic, virgin goodness.
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Perfumes with a silky or velvety depth are Venusian in their decadence.
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The decadence of the place has rendered me flaccid and speechless in awe.
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Many groups from the decade of decadence disappeared as quickly as they arrived.
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A song that wasn't too self-serious, that dripped with decadence and play.
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For Alberto Barrera Tyszka, an essayist, the video shows the "decadence" of chavismo.
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Wash it down with a Strongbow rosé cider, and it's the perfect decadence.
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Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, called nostalgia a symptom of decadence.
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A drizzle of lemon butter and a dash of celery salt adds decadence.
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BRAZILLIONAIRES: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country, by Alex Cuadros.
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But the jacket was far from the only example of Manafort's alleged decadence.
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Some vases are also consensually destroyed, which is the ultimate sign of decadence.
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In this production, Weimar decadence is more of a context than a concept.
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After all, it's hard to go wrong with dope, decadence and the demimonde.
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Stella Nyanzi has a direct impact on the moral decadence of this country.
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Huset's staid interior was in stark contrast to the decadence of the plates.
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His shows were about Nazism and decadence, marriage and nostalgia, injustice and upheaval.
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His shows were about Nazism and decadence, marriage and nostalgia, injustice and upheaval.
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Bedford's depictions of contemporary decadence aren't moralizing; if anything, they are merely sampling.
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Crafted of nothing but paper and cardboard, they reimagine Baroque-era decadence in monochrome.
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Many millennials, in particular, aren't just looking for outright decadence in their food content.
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In later years, Hefner had become a familiar symbol of decadence and geriatric hedonism.
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" The group also unfurled a large banner saying "Hypocrites: Our resistance to your decadence.
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The Pre-Raphaelite artist mixed horror and decadence to create a feeling of unnaturalness.
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If inadvertently, this description contains an insight into the link between horror and decadence.
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It's dangerous, though—knowing that decadence can be this easy and taste this good.
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The gallery pushed good taste to an intriguing decadence definitely outside the Bauhaus canon.
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There's a strong desire, from thinkers and activists on all sides, to escape decadence.
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I think there are tendencies within both liberalism and capitalism that lead to decadence.
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"The decadence of human beings has destroyed the environment in China," Pastor Shen said.
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A little camp, a lot of decadence, House of Prime Rib should live forever.
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It is also fantastic if you like this sort of fast-food, deep-fried decadence.
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Here's what the filling looks like, in all of its oozy hazelnut and chocolate decadence.
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In a meal of restrained and finely drawn flavors, it growls with a brazen decadence.
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It is, however, for those who know the true meaning of sweet and salty decadence.
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EDM fading from its memory, Miami returns to its beloved mode of hip-hop decadence.
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That defeat raised great concern about the "decadence" of French men, across the political spectrum.
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The monk founded the Benedictine religious order amid the chaos and decadence of imperial Rome.
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Here is ongoing political turmoil and a natural beauty that will never surrender to decadence.
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But if it's not, you could still re-live the decadence of that time period ...
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There's a certain impressiveness to the sheer decadence involved in Nick Jonas' wedding to Priyanka Chopra.
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A book titled From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun dropped into the water and disappeared.
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The newlyweds' four-tiered wedding cake included layers of berries and cream, chocolate decadence and funfetti.
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The firm's weird, pixelated decadence conveyed fantasies of kitsch and capitalism taken to their illogical extremes.
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While there's a serious wealth disparity in New Orleans, there's also a palpable culture of decadence.
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Most luxury products are pitched to appeal to a sense of decadence or exclusivity in consumers.
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The other, which I'm drawn to by my own obsession with decadence, would emphasize futility instead.
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He did, however, make his mark at another studio — Studio 54 — where he photographed disco decadence.
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The exhibition's title also evokes ideas of colonialism in pursuit of wealth, which are closely tied to Puerto Rico's history in Rolón's newest body of work, Gild the Lily (Decadence Upon Decadence), and follows some works on display at Library Street Collective in the Spanish Gold series.
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You want it to be a planned moment of louche luxury: actual decadence, sexy in the extreme.
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By using part-skim mozzarella and light ricotta, you get plenty of decadence without all the calories.
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It perfectly fit the grandeur of the venue and the decadence of our vision for the wedding.
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Though not as dour as Gordon Brown, Ms Davidson exudes an admirable disdain for such southern decadence.
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This place should allow me to immerse myself in Nutella's most alluring qualities—its decadence, smoothness, lusciousness.
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Thankfully, Hungry in Whittier has reclaimed the burger as a true symbol of culinary decadence and Americana.
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This level of decadence will only be around for a limited time, however, so dough-not wait.
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They were crimes that summed up all the worst qualities of the 1980s – greed, decadence and excess.
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Our political-media establishment is now characterized by executive overreach, legislative complicity, judicial partisanship and journalistic decadence.
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Concert-hall design has entered its grand mannerist phase, or, some might argue, its age of decadence.
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A symbol of the very Western decadence Russia nationalists were encouraged to believe Putin protected them against.
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It is the same moral weakness and decadence, orderism warns, that preceded the fall of previous empires.
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One possible explanation is the decadence of the G.O.P. establishment, which has become ingrown and lost touch.
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The cinnamon bread ($5.99) from a place called the Grist Mill was a loaf of sloppy decadence.
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"Grand Hotel," which deploys what feels like a city-size ensemble, is similarly perfumed in divine decadence.
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"In the Name of the People" is filled with suggestions that Western decadence has corrupted Chinese officials.
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But it was Alessandro Michele, who, in the 2010s, once again made the brand synonymous with decadence.
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We're ready for a weekend of decadence and excitement on Saturday when charming Venus sextiles expansive Jupiter.
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The party was the pinnacle of decades of decadence and mind-boggling spending by the royal family.
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Izumi's truffle lobster tempura roll is pure, delectable decadence with both creamy truffle and crispy fried lobster.
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In light of Gustav Klimt's glittering decadence and Kazimir Malevich's seismic Suprematism, Schiele's art is unapologetically human.
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Nietzsche spent a lot of time thinking about decadence and resentment, and how it manifests in society.
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The Bootleg series once served a useful function, but it has long since tipped over into decadence.
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More myth than man, Karl Lagerfeld had willed his fantasy of Parisian-flavored decadence and eccentricity into existence.
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America, I hate to break it to ya, but your esteemed PSLs are the epitome of unabashed decadence.
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"Grunge and Goth-like heroin chic look followed the decadence and excess of the '80s," says Van Jones.
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The decadence served at pricey bourgeois restaurants are withheld from the tongues of those who craft such pleasures.
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Qual is a icicle dagger right to the heart, his words an elegy to the decadence of death.
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But despite everything Arthur does, Camelot creeps ever closer to the decadence and self-conscious irony of modernity.
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She told me with a mischievous smile: "Decadence in Cambodia—if you can get it, go for it!"
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I said, 'That is the name of a historical icon in Cuba who came to symbolize dictatorial decadence.
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For example, state-guided media claim that Russia's enemies are Nazism and a Western decadence epitomised by homosexuality.
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The gallery space has become a key signifier of hipster decadence in neighborhoods with an influx of gentrifiers.
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I've written books about Harvard, the G.O.P., American Christianity and Pope Francis; I'm working on one about decadence.
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Over on FX, "The Assassination of Gianni Versace" is unfolding with a decadence fit for its Miami subject.
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Both are relics of the city's 19th-century decline, a reminder of where the word decadence comes from.
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Well, in the last 10 years or so, we've seen a lot of ideological discontent with political decadence.
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Is the rise of Trumpist populism and illiberalism more generally a reaction against decadence or its logical fulfillment?
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He designed a show called "Contrepied" that was all eighties decadence: sable, shoulder pads, big hair, gold lamé.
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Like their Nazi precursors, the Communist rulers of East Germany scorn the subjectivism and decadence of modernist art.
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The style of Martel's account is fascinating because it so resembles the old Protestant critique of Catholic decadence.
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Served cold, it's the perfect summer meal, taking lobster's decadence and delicate flavor to a casual and approachable dish.
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ISIS' rhetoric celebrates indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets that are, in its view, symbols of Western power or decadence.
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Already considered the pinnacle of luxury, the new suites will provide passengers with the ultimate in train travel decadence.
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Mr. Trump is the very embodiment of the culture of narcissism and decadence that moral traditionalism exists to counteract.
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"Infernal Decadence is a rejection of the need for purity and order," the band told Noisey in a statement.
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The socioeconomic forces are real, but Trump is also the beneficiary of a long process of Republican intellectual decadence.
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Douthat is hardly alone in thinking our salvation is out there among the stars—the Pixar movie WALL-E explored a similar idea—but his reluctance to identify a terrestrial solution to decadence arises from the same myopia that leads him to identify our present condition as "decadence" in the first place.
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Secular decadence was too seductive: America, he says, now has an immoral majority and little can be done about it.
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This wing is dedicated to human decadence; crystal beckons like candy for consumption or serves to adorn people and homes.
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I personally like the decadence of the '70s, the mid-to-late '70s specifically, the very chic elegance of it.
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Fast food became a point of contention and an emblem of Western decadence throughout lands backed and controlled by Russia.
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Or do they actually believe that Russia exemplifies a new civilisation—free of the decadence and weakness of the West?
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We stumble over ruins, repeating past sins, but the sins aren't the decadence or tolerance or pity that Raspail feared.
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"He comes from a very poor milieu, he finds glory, grandeur, and then decadence and decline into hell," he added.
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We spoke with Jackie House to get the all the juicy stories from their half decade of decadence at Deviants.
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What's left, beyond a bubbling swamp of textured sound, is an apathetically direct portrait of Decadence in its slimy essence.
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So a lot of the discontent with decadence ends up getting channeled into virtual politics as opposed to real politics.
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Perhaps most of all, he is seeking to return to a spirit of loucheness and decadence of the disco years.
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It replaced an older shack that is lamented by some longtime pond swimmers, who regard the showers as a decadence.
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Schreker wrote a cautionary tale of moral decadence, but his effusive post-Romantic musical style makes sin sound really good.
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Gorgeous vases, decorative plates, and pristine statues of religious figures speak to the decadence and high artistry of the era.
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Venus will square off with Jupiter on June 25, and the energy will be indulgent as hell, Expect total decadence.
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In Mao's day, dog ownership by city dwellers was condemned as a "symbol of decadence" and strays were shot on sight.
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By decadence, Douthat doesn't mean the moral or aesthetic squalor (since that would mean Trump is the symptom, not the solution).
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Photo: APFor decades, humans have dreamed of wasting away in their own decadence while armies of robots do everything for them.
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The thing is, these doughnuts are really super rich, like if the typical Krispy Kreme donut wasn't enough decadence for you.
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My lightened-up pulled pork recipe is delicious, but having Pete & Sam's super-indulgent pork BBQ pizza is next-level decadence.
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It has become standard practice for IS to target large venues hosting events that symbolise what it regards as Western decadence.
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To be published in America in October; $26.99 COMMUNIST toffs spying for Stalin epitomise the decadence of the old British establishment.
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Like a Taurus, she stayed in her lane until she was pushed out of it, and then catapulted into freewheeling decadence.
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At the time, frontman Axl Rose was in the full throes of the arrogant rock decadence that would become his brand.
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He makes the best of a bad job by offering blandishments for Russia's leadership in upholding conservative civilizational values: No decadence!
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Violet doesn't approve of the privilege and decadence around her, so she's ready to bring the upper class down a notch.
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" He further said, "Morally weak people not only inhibit their own personal growth, but finally contribute to the politics of decadence.
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The first of those books, 1987's Bonfire of the Vanities, a memorable portrait of Manhattan decadence, was a great success.
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Joe Webb's collages are ruled by contrasts, contrasts between the developed and developing worlds, the past and present, decadence and want.
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History will treat Nixon's moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump's sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior.
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Simply put: He is alarmed not by moral weakness and decadence, but by the threat of losing his beloved privileged status.
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Mr. Putin's strongman style and warnings against Western decadence attracted more and more conservative admirers in the United States and beyond.
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Tom Ford Lavender Extreme Lavender is the elegant, begloved lady of the herb world; it smells like both decadence and delicacy.
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The 1920s symbolize decadence, but not everyone could afford to gamble in exclusive clubs, purchase designer frocks, or drink expensive champagne.
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So we're right back to the version of Twin Peaks in which the town's kids are doomed to decadence and decline.
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Douthat's chapters on stagnating innovation and institutional sclerosis as elements of our decadence are more conventional, though informative and well balanced.
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Despite the doping, the drugs, the slow slide into corpulent decadence, some supernatural aura still clings to our image of him.
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No hard liquor or drugs is present (absinthe, once a popular still life motif, served as a coded allusion to decadence).
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By infusing decadence and whimsy into snacking, these food products invite an unexpected visual experience to the typically mindless midday nosh.
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In Paris gay life flourished in the decadence of Montmartre, with its Moulin Rouge cabaret and rows of smoky cafés and bars.
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But to do that, they'll need help, so Lawrence leads him to Pariah, the town of decadence and depravity from Season 1.
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Non-bird dinosaurs had been going strong for over 130 million years and showed no signs of decadence when the asteroid hit.
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But for the baklava connoisseur, and the large majority of Turkish tourists, Cevdet's baklava boutique is an aromatic beacon of pure decadence.
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The holidays are during the time of year when we inevitably fall into a horrible shame spiral of decadence, gluttony, and excess.
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Yet it was also an age of excess, of decadence, and paradoxically a period in which boozing was more prevalent than ever.
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It was meant to be "a haven of extreme decadence for upscale vacationers on the Adriatic Sea," according to the Associated Press.
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More than once I have heard Iranian imams, with preposterous certainty, equate flimsy women's attire in the West with decadence and prostitution.
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Completed in post-World War I Berlin, they are satirical critiques of the political corruption and social decadence of the Weimar Republic.
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Of course, decadence, novelty, and a collision of colors, styles, and shapes are part of what made the Roaring Twenties so dynamic.
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Foie gras is rich as hell, but you can take its decadence a notch further by making Weed-Infused Foie Gras Pâté.
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In Tea's hands, sobriety, love and something like happiness are stranger and more unsettling than bohemian decadence could ever hope to be.
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Heaven, and its symbolics, and the jagged Chicago skyline are most-requested motifs, and they are rendered with an almost rococo decadence.
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We reconcile ourselves to the decadence of the present only if we choose to remain ignorant of the achievements of the past.
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Unlike Mr. Trump, European fascists were deeply ideological and would have despised his decadence and view of himself as a great dealmaker.
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This tableau vivant of corseted dancers encased in seventeenth-century hoopskirts resembles a painting by Velázquez inflected with contemporary haute-couture decadence.
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Meanwhile, Italy's decadence continued, temporarily cloaked by the dynamism of part of the industrial north and the international competitiveness of some corporations.
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Swinging from one concert to the next brought on a kind of ecstasy: a blazing musical high fired by old-downtown decadence.
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Venus rules Taurus and Libra, two signs associated with style and decadence, and often considered the most fashionable signs of the zodiac.
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MINNESOTA: Red Cow Minneapolis' smoked beef and beer cheese fries are decadence to a whole new level, and customers can't get enough.
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By infusing decadence and whimsy into snacking, these food products do invite an unexpected visual experience to the typically mindless midday nosh.
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However, the inaugural 2019 Megacruise, described as "five days and nights of heavy metal decadence and debauchery," will still set sail this October.
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If you want a bunch of daddy dick, come in September for Southern Decadence, but the definition of New Orleans is Mardi Gras.
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There is surely no better illustration of Britain's decadence than the entrepreneurial vigour of the likes of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.
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Likewise, the best photography in this exhibition escapes the screaming influence of Roman decadence to find a more subtle side to the country.
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Many hard-liners view the obligatory veil as a last-ditch defense against what they say is an onslaught of Western cultural decadence.
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Oysters are a sure sign of high-end decadence, but look back 200 years and they were handed out as free bar snacks.
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And I had a few lighter ones to help cut through the decadence of the others: Celebration, Mango Key Lime, and Vanilla Bean.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Those searching for the true sound of unadulterated decadence should check out the new Travis Scott album.
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The novel makes clear that jazz does indeed kill — not by its decadence, as the proselytist suggests, but by its novelty, its ingenuity.
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Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi arms trader, rose to spectacular wealth in the 1970s and 1980s while treating the world to displays of decadence.
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It may be a sign of present decadence, then, that the Fragonard mood—euphorically indulgent, lip-smackingly sensual, a bit silly—seems fresh.
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"You know what it's like—I was swept away in the decadence of it," he said, his long fingers fluttering around his face.
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"Spelacchio mirrors the decadence of the city," said Francesca Nava, a television journalist who has lived in Rome for the past 15 years.
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James frequently drew contrasts between the knowing sophistication and decadence of "old Europe" and the naive but well-intentioned Puritanism of young America.
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For all Mr Benjamin's faith in it, music is a sinister force too, at first a sign of decadence, then an instrument of power.
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This product is "kind of like dental nirvana" and "takes things to levels of luxury, convenience and decadence hitherto undreamed of," according to TechRadar.
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In some parts of Eastern Europe, however, particularly in Russia, she is seen by many as a symbol of West European decadence and decline.
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Miami in the 80s was more than just a playground of debauchery—it was the playground, spearheading a freewheeling decade of drugs and decadence.
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The result was a much-buzzed-about cavern of decadence with the designer's signature mash-up on display (including an eight-foot stuffed giraffe).
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Despite being at the epicenter of the glamour and decadence of 70s Hollywood (and having the anecdotes to prove it), mainstream success eluded her.
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Crispy finger food definitely isn't your classic Thanksgiving turkey main, but this recipe will take your holiday to a whole new level of decadence.
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And if you think that capital of doomed decadence won't be name-checked before the evening is over, you don't know your judgment days.
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I traveled a lot in the weeks before America went into lockdown, promoting a book about (aah, irony) the decadence of the developed world.
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In 2012, United's paying $34 million for a 29-year-old in the final year of his contract was considered the height of decadence.
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The consumerism, the hyper-individualism, the greed, the lack of some common project or goal — doesn't all of that lead to something like decadence?
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Many of the Americans interviewed in the film were obese, I suppose because the soviet politburo types thought that would further highlight American decadence.
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In all this, what China is experiencing is part of the common demographic decadence of the developed world, which is enveloping developing countries too.
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The chairman of the judging panel, the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, denounced it as a prime specimen of the decadence of the British novel.
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Nothing says Christmas like decadence, debauchery and mayhem, at least when comic actors like T. J. Miller, Kate McKinnon and Rob Corddry are involved.
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"It is better to help people flourish in their culture than to encourage them to come to a Europe in full decadence," he said.
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One of Goya's main themes was social injustice, with satirical scenes of aristocratic decadence contrasting with drawings of famine and hardship in the countryside.
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Roy Halston Frowick wasn't just creating flowing silk gowns and jumpsuits that stood out from the rest of '60s fashion with their minimalist decadence.
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Not everyone was receptive to what was going on, and many saw the changes as signs of decline, faddishness, decadence, erosion of values, and worse.
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He explains how he went from playing pop music to airline workers in Hong Kong to leading multiple waves of dance music deviation and decadence.
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He left the force in 1973 and slowly became an extremist, angry about the supposed decadence of the royals and the intrusion of "Western" culture.
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Some of the gas stations show an atmosphere of decadence -- like photo No. 3 in the gallery above, which Grosso describes as kitsch and golden.
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The menu from chefs Mia Wasilevich and Teresa Montaño also referenced 90s LA and its unapologetic decadence, as well as big moments in Fleiss' lore.
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In addition to the usual decadence, this year's event wound up featuring two women dressed in Lisa Frank-inspired pony outfits, neighing at one another.
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"A brain solo without filter, a tale of ordinary madness, showing how much loneliness and decadence can be hidden inside a genius mind," Nerdo writes.
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Now I discovered the more thoroughgoing decadence of Huysmans and, once I got to university, Nietzsche's instruction to make of oneself a work of art.
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David Bowie, the original Starman and his backing band, the Spiders From Mars, were the forerunners in the genre, combining decadence with showmanship and rebellion.
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Trouxinhas de carpaccio, bundles of thin-sliced beef stuffed with ricotta cream and topped with pesto and Parmesan, explode in your mouth with modest decadence.
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Since it opened in 1930, this Upper East Side institution has been the go-to destination for celebrities, politicians and royalty seeking decadence and discretion.
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That's right, Libra is ruled by Venus, which Stardust says is also the planet of decadence, so Libras like trips that offer plenty of comforts.
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But his self-flagellating exposé was well-timed to the end of a decade rattled by the AIDS crisis and soured by narcissism and decadence.
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But his self-flagellating exposé was well-timed to the end of a decade rattled by the AIDS crisis and soured by narcissism and decadence.
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And when I watched it live, I didn't think about the decadence of Nazi Germany or the corruption of that family or any contemporary parallels.
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As Patterson's recognition has advanced and Fluxus has gained recent traction as an alternative to the art world's obscene decadence, Patterson developed a small Fluxus.
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Glubb stated that there are six ages in the lifespan of an empire, beginning with the age of pioneers, and ending with the age of decadence.
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The excesses made possible by our wealth and power have degraded our culture to the point where we are no longer able to sustain such decadence.
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Season 2 went further, developing Soloway's themes of Jewish suffering and guilt by connecting the Pfeffermans' story to the gender-bending decadence of pre-Nazi Berlin.
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The sundae features a chocolate chunk cookie piled on top of the Frosty, plus an added layer of decadence with a drizzle of Ghirardelli chocolate sauce.
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It's a sensorial delight, a delicious morsel of court decadence, rivalry, and intrigue, with enough wit and rage to pierce your gut and leave you writhing.
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The glamorous metropolis of popular imagination, with its decadence and excess, is glimpsed in political street fights and nightclub adverts, but is not Döblin's main concern.
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The ridiculously perfect paint job on BMW M25003i was the definition of decadence in this loaded up full-size sedan that can be yours for $154,795.
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There's also this sense of cultural decadence, the feeling that the old traditional values are being eroded and therefore we have to make America great again.
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The charge was that Germany, a victim of Western decadence and the naive refugee policy of its chancellor, could not or would not protect "our Lisa".
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The populist right is using the refugee crisis to woo older, poorer and more nostalgic voters with talk of national pride and the decadence of elites.
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The raw appeal of high-performance insanity aside, there's something to be said about the decadence of being able to comfortably tool around in this car.
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As a result of its left-wing decadence and self-hatred, Europe fails to realize the threat it faces until the refugee hordes land and pillage.
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For years, a sign outside promised the shaded decadence of the French Riviera, though at some point the fountain where a golden bird roosted stopped flowing.
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The state is always hiding its true secret—that very wealthy people get to live out their fantasies in extreme decadence without any fear of reprisals.
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At the Shanghai Conservatory, where the three study and work, Western music is denounced as a demonic decadence and its practitioners as traitors to the revolution.
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The boy's father, who has descended into Champagne-soaked decadence, suddenly becomes the most doting of parents and hopes Joona can find his missing daughter too.
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However, Elite perfected the formula with the style of Gossip Girl, the decadence of Game of Thrones, and bigger, sexier mysteries than any of its competitors.
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Decadence can last a really long time, but I don't think it will end with us collapsing back into the stone age and wiping ourselves out.
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Lavo, which is owned by the TAO Group, a restaurant-and-night-club conglomerate, is devoted to a notably un-chill combination of decadence and exorbitance.
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Scott's figures are female, powerful, thick, and devastatingly beautiful; she presents black women as sensual and sentient beings, contradicting common stereotypes with decadence rather than militancy.
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It has all the decadence of treating your damn self without the post-Blizzard stomachache, and their soft-serve pies are also the definition of dankness.
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But now, these majesties of comedy know how to use the decadence of the visual medium to put on an extravagantly hilarious variety hour unlike any other.
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In his New York Times column, Ross Douthat advances the novel idea that supporters of Trump and Sanders share a view that America has fallen into decadence.
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Beyond the heavily armed gates of this affluent community lie hundreds upon hundreds of gaudy, western-style mansions that celebrate the decadence and affluence of Kurdistan's elites.
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This period of decadence, in Glubb's opinion, is the result of "too long a period of wealth and power" and is defined by extreme materialism and frivolity.
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Time was a slippery thing within this "Grand Hotel," where, as visitors, we were dropped into a continuous past, present, and future of decadence, theatrics, and deviance.
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"I guess what I find so appealing and fascinating in them is that sense of relaxed glamour, that sophisticated nonchalance with a dose of decadence," she says.
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"High-Rise," published in 1975, is very much a product of its moment, and its vision of apocalyptic decadence has long since taken on a nostalgic coloration.
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"A View Near Tivoli" (1832) details the crumbling remains of the Emperor Nero's Roman aqueduct, a symbol of past glorious empires and the decadence that felled them.
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The decadence of this trip begins even before you set foot on a ship: the first leg is flying first class on Emirates from London to Dubai.
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Though he's less of a tabloid mainstay than he was in 2013 - 2014, Stratford's favourite son seems to be entering a new mode of savagery and decadence.
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Yet, in spite of all the bullshit, that feeling of being caught up in a tornado of decadence and desperation is half the sick pleasure of it.
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Recently Mr. Ford's collections have swung between a kind of overwrought decadence and a neon disco/aerobics rabbit hole, greased by the rise of the workout wardrobe.
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The new geography of Islam was also a Protestant one, with Rome's decadence mirrored in Istanbul and forsaken for Geneva's austerities as found in Arabia's holy cities.
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So in that sense, I guess I am pessimistic in the sense that I think current trends suggest we have a lot of decadence ahead of us.
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It reads instead like a series of magazine advertisements — or, looked at another way, as evidence for Western decadence that might be posted in a fundamentalist state.
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The lean, rosy slices taste pure and clean; the decadence is supplied by ovals of soft beef marrow and by the marrow jus spooned over the meat.
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He is an instinct-driven chancer who has exploited the decadence of his party and the larger system to grasp and hold a certain kind of power.
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This was around 1999, a year after it had opened, when Babbo had few peers among Italian restaurants, serving unusual meats with a side of light decadence.
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But most Cambodia historians say other factors, including Prince Sihanouk's alliance with the rebels and the decadence and corruption under the Lon Nol regime, were more significant.
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The 1973 Westworld movie saw a theme park divided into three zones that catered to decadence, violence, and indulgence without ramifications in the manufactured world of Delos.
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The illicit gains were used by Faulkner, 39, to fund "a lifestyle of decadence and debauchery," the SEC said, including lavish travel and the use of escort services.
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Within the theme of the "Grand Hotel Abyss," the Steirischer Herbst 2019 art festival dropped visitors into a continuous past, present, and future of decadence, theatrics, and deviance.
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The city has a Gay Easter Parade, Southern Decadence (an annual gay festival and parade held around Labor Day each year) and more than a dozen gay bars.
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The recent government shutdown in America, Brexit-related confusion and gilets jaunes riots in France are all held up in China as examples of Western decadence and failure.
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But wearing a suit in the Cuban heat isn't much fun, and for many people buying a three-piece in the first place would be an expensive decadence.
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But dissipation of the novel, whose title character is a reflective blank, mirrors the decadence of Viennese society around World War I — prosperous, rule-bound, beautiful, and doomed.
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The mood will be indulgent as hell on June 25 when Venus clashes with Jupiter; over-the-top decadence will abound, making this a fantastic time to party.
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"My desire is to join all Zimbabweans in a new era, where corruption, incompetence, dereliction of duty and laziness, social and cultural decadence is not tolerated," he said.
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After the fifth iteration, Hotel, pushed the show to a new height of visual decadence, last year's reality TV-spoofing Roanoke was intended as something of a reset.
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It's beautiful ripples of ice cream, like the hide of a Shar-Pei oozed elegant decadence, whether they were being served after dinner or at a birthday party.
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Drawing parallels between the unapologetic decadence of the period and the indulgent superficiality of the contemporary present, Bas asks us to consider how and why clichés are born.
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Trader Joe's just released a new product that seems to offer the best of both worlds, the decadence of adulthood and the familiarity of a favorite childhood snack.
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For ISIS, whose propagandists have described Sousse and the Bardo Museum as "dens of vice," tourists are a vulnerable embodiment of Western decadence—legitimate targets for righteous extirpation.
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When you think "Taxi Driver," an image of New York City in the 1970s springs to mind—a dark, depraved city heaving with sleazy decadence and undeniable allure.
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The pageant scandals have shaken Venezuelans who've already watched their country unravel in the decadence and strife of the governments of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
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I'm not sure we could engineer a more perfect distillation of decadence than Trump, but there's always the question of whether Trump is the symptom or the disease.
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These same people couldn't wait to see films like "The Big Short" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," about the financial chicanery and decadence of rich white crooks.
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But the lesson is that the failure of traditional politics to address Europe's relative institutional and economic decadence continues to fuel the populist response to the status quo.
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If Austria is best-known for schmaltzy sentimentalism and a refusal to acknowledge its Nazi heritage, the capital city of Vienna is celebrated for its Habsburg-era decadence.
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It was also a world in which power and legitimacy were radically untethered, in which a former cohesion and strength had given way to decadence and endless crisis.
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On the savory side, Black Tap Anaheim offers a variety of piled-high burgers that rival the shakes in terms of decadence, along with appetizers, wings, salads, and sandwiches.
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" The historian Roger Griffin once described the core vision of fascism as "the national community rising Phoenix-like after a period of encroaching decadence which all but destroyed it.
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Rights activists attribute the increasing number of rapes to a lack of awareness, a culture of impunity, moral decadence, and people of influence protecting suspected rapists for political reasons.
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Now it may sound absurd to cast a figure like Donald Trump, the much-married prince of tinsel and pasteboard, as a scourge of decadence rather than its embodiment.
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Despite his decadence, the heroic figure full of masculine allure and wearing an idiosyncratic guerrilla fatigue, remained fixed in the collective imaginary, an image that is difficult to erase.
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That's why we asked vegan blogger Ava Szajna-Hopgood of Guac and Roll to show us how to enjoy the traditional decadence of Christmas without using any animal products.
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I don't think it's very dissimilar thematically from what I'm usually attracted to—there's a bit of decadence at play here, but the film doesn't take itself too seriously.
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A man of vice, decadence, and sloth—and yet simultaneously praised for his powers of healing and prophecy—Rasputin was unliked by many and was tormented by conspiring assassins.
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The decadence turns downright oppressive in a suet-crusted potpie of whole duck leg, the size of a casserole, topped with a hot-dog-length slab of foie gras.
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"Six Feet Under" was not a perfect show, either, but it was an amazing one: a comedy about death, with great characters and a uniquely Californian embrace of decadence.
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" Heti, for her part, admits that "not having a child allows a slip into sludginess, into the decadence of doing nothing but sitting before a computer, typing out words.
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It's a small abstract painting, one of a cluster of works that have been gathered, under Nazi auspices, to be jeered at for their decadence and their moral deformity.
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You only get four or five bits of popcorn in a bag, but that makes this calendar the perfect cure for the decadence we've seen on show thus far.
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For decay in arts, Guerilla Science enlisted scenic artist James Fluhr to create an atmosphere that gave the space a sense of aristocratic decadence, but also one of decay.
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Put the kids to bed, then indulge in this adults-only burlesque fairy tale featuring a mix of song, dance and circus with visual decadence and a coquettish vibe.
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"I would cringe in my heart to think I somehow suggested that kind of physical and spiritual decadence is glamorous," Mr. Lupton told The New York Post in 2005.
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And when capitalism inevitably fails the majority of the population, Johnson says, the wrong people, be they Mexican or black or Jewish, are blamed for society's dysfunction and decadence.
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Likewise, these sculptural blooms could also be found springing from glossy black vessels at party spots like Mr. Chow and nightclubs like Studio 54, signaling a similar sexual decadence.
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That's the problem with this meandering, occasionally repetitive account: The awkward juxtaposition of the Riviera's high-society decadence and the gruesome atrocities of the war is difficult to reconcile.
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The spectacle of de Nieves's work at once delights in and undercuts the decadence, pageantry, beauty and symbolism of the Catholic Church, royal courts — and perhaps the museum itself.
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Even Heinrich Schenker, the renowned dogmatic and German-centric theorist, spent a lot of time on the mystery and craft of Chopin's modulations, despite their hint of French decadence.
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The Putin entourage is convinced the decadence of the West is revealed in its irreligious embrace of same-sex marriage, radical feminism, euthanasia, homosexuality and choose-your-gender bathrooms.
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Evola's early artistic endeavors gave way to his love of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and he developed a worldview with an overriding animosity toward the decadence of modernity.
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This sounds more like Christopher Isherwood absorbing the atmosphere of nineteen-thirties Berlin than like terrorists' usual rhetoric about the corrupted decadence of the places they seek to destroy.
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The blonde beauty Genevieve, in a series of reversals that strain credulity, falls from grace to decadence — and is punished with death in the elevator of the Eiffel Tower.
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I'm out of moisturizer, shampoo, and conditioner, so I place a big order (First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream, Caviar Moisture Shampoo by Alterna, and DevaCurl One Condition Decadence Conditioner).
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Swing by this chocolatier and receive a buy one get one 153% off deal on any order of soft serve, including a scoop of their new dark decadence waffle cone.
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I argue that's an indication that sexual selection can produce a kind of decadence, in which individuals become worse at their survival even as they're more pleasing to each other.
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He thought he had put an end to that capitalist decadence, but now that he's in his late 80s, some guy is suddenly trying to open Cuba back up again.
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It's clear that fans are just supposed to relish the rococo decadence of all of this, from the massive neon underwater world to the vast armies of CGI riding-fish.
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Perry's initial character bears similarities to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France who reportedly lived a life of decadence before the French Revolution resulted in her beheading in 1793.
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Winter may have come and gone, ushering out the season of The Nutcracker with it, but the decadence of ballet lives on through a production that brings sweets to life.
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As the nuptials spiral into a delirious bacchanal evoking Luis Buñuel's 1962 classic, "The Exterminating Angel," guests delve into decadence, and a mother and father become gargoyles of parental pomposity.
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My brother is a couple of years younger than I am and shares my memories of the yuppie decadence and apocalyptic structural decay that characterized Los Angeles in the 1980s.
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Julian and Isabel reference the work of Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema, who took "a Hollywood version of the Roman world" as his setting and exploited its reputation for decadence.
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I love the decadence of reading on a weekday afternoon, when I know that I'm supposed to be at the office or doing something the world will see as work.
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No reader of "Watership Down," and few readers of the literary and political traditions on which its narrative depends, would accept that totalitarianism and decadence exhaust the available political alternatives.
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But for better or worse we may know a lot more about the resilience of our world-system, the sustainability of our decadence, by the time the paperback comes out.
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The United States is the New World, the "land of the free," settled and founded by people who left a Europe full of political repression, economic backwardness and cultural decadence.
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Written by the managing editor of Art in America , this suspenseful novel sets the intrigue of pulp fiction against the decadence of New York's downtown art scene in the nineties.
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While the mid-eighteenth century lavished in rococo, wide skirts that screamed decadence and wealth in their yards and yards of fabric, the end of the eighteenth century whispered restraint.
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As an act of purification, these groups often expressed their separation from the corrupting decadence of capitalist society by withdrawing from the formal economy altogether, or insofar as that was possible.
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A Russian anarchist argues with an old Orthodox priest about the decadence of Czarist society, while the working-class French railroad workers argue about what they'll do if war breaks out.
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According to WWD, BioBelle, a line that markets solely in adorably named sheet masks like #IWokeUpLikeThis and #Decadence, will soon launch the #UnicornGlow iteration of its signature product — and it's holographic.
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They are kept in darkness for weeks or are blinded, which causes the bird to gorge on grains and grapes and become fat, the key ingredient to its decadence when cooked.
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In a phone interview, Moore described Trump as the embodiment of cultural decadence — the personification of the moral decline he says Christian leaders have struggled to halt for the past generation.
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"From its air of decadence to its prowling camera movements, this is a Claude Chabrol film from lurid start to surrealistic finish," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times.
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It is among dozens of works now on display in "Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France," highlighting the achievements of ancient silversmiths.
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You'd be forgiven for mistaking Spectral Wound's new album, Infernal Decadence, for another droplet in the sea of forgettable black metal tapes that seems to wash over every #metal Instagram feed.
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Meanwhile, Black Tap has been building an empire of another sort, based not on the strength of its burger, which is considerable, but on the Willy Wonka decadence of its milkshakes.
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Right after new year's, clients come to me wanting to train 6 days per week, they quit alcohol, cut out food groups and generally punish themselves for their decadence in December.
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Paul Verlaine featured him in his anthology of " poètes maudits ," and J. K. Huysmans's novelistic manual of decadence, "Against the Grain," glorified him as the ne plus ultra of esoteric refinement.
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It's such a financial and social burden to be a vegetarian, so I just choose to enjoy the decadence of the American food surplus—which tragically relies on a nightmarish production model.
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It has become standard operating practice for both Islamic State and al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists to try to hit large venues hosting events that symbolise what they regard as Western cultural decadence.
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These missions take her back into the land of her former owners, whose decadence and corruption are represented by Eliza, the Brodess matriarch (Jennifer Nettles), and her nasty son Gideon (Joe Alwyn).
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And thirdly, there are jihadist Salafis who think the only appropriate response to the decadence of the modern era, and to a lack of zeal in the historically Muslim world, is violence.
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You get the decadence of chicken parm and the practicality of hot dogs; it's the stuff of stoner dreams and a perfect wiener delivery system and the best of all possible worlds.
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The piece is a playful conflation of baking pastry with baking clay, but Wolek is not really joking — "Help Yourself" is an acid comment on the greed and decadence characterizing our civilization.
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"That's what many of the refugees who had arrived in Pakistan wanted -- decadence and luxury," he said, explaining that right up to the 1960s, Delhi was synonymous with all that was good.
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Visitors strolling the High Line this season encounter a sculpture contrasting a photograph of ice cream with a giant fan that, given the decadence of neighboring boutiques, somewhat resembles an industrial guillotine.
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Iggy Pop's curt lyrics cackle about decadence and disillusionment, but also — in "Break Into Your Heart," which starts as a boast and ends as something like an apology — show grown-up compassion.
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Designed with quilting that echoes its curvy shape, and logo detail to delight Rainbow Brite, the collection proves that the decade of decadence can, despite its garish reputation, be ever so chic.
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Digging into the "Adjaruli" variety served here — a hammock of dense bread carrying melted cheese, topped with a fried egg and a chunk of butter — is an exercise in artery-clogging decadence.
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Put the kids to bed, and then indulge in this adults-only burlesque fairy tale featuring a saucy mix of song, dance and circus with visual decadence and a distinctly coquettish vibe.
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But I think it's important for getting at the reality that decadence is something that comes on civilizations when they've reached a certain stage, and it's not clear where they go next.
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In which case we are left to choose between its darker rivals, between a comfortable decadence in which virtue erodes and the reaper beckons, or else some variant on Efrafa's totalitarian alternative.
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Credit...Victor Llorente for The New York Times What if the Roman Empire — with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate — never really ended?
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Their work expends far more energy on the melodrama of decline and decadence, on visions of Jews giving syphilis to Aryan maidens and on the Roman ruins, than on a positive future.
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Under the banner of civilization, he gains the flexibility to cast Russia not only as an Eastern enemy but alternately as a Western ally, standing tall against terrorist barbarism and secular decadence.
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Farther back is the dance floor, where three more glitter balls hang over the crowd, as strobe lights and sometimes fog effects recreate that old disco feeling without any of the decadence.
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A copy of From Dawn to Decadence was eventually put into his hands by a stranger, a woman who had attended a talk he had overcome his nerves to give after the storm.
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So, it came as some surprise when this town, whose skyline merges Hapsburgian decadence with shipyard cranes, was named European Capital of Culture for 2020 over other Croatian candidates like Dubrovnik and Split.
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For all of Miró's efforts to take art forward, he said, "my grandfather was a primitive poet, who also always liked to recall that art had been in decadence since the cave men."
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Julia Moskin has a marvelous exploration of the breakfast muffin, with a recipe for a whole-grain blueberry muffin with orange streusel, which straddles the line between healthful virtue and carb-laden decadence.
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As noted by Business Insider, the extra decadence does come at a caloric cost, with each fudge-covered Oreo clocking in at 90 calories versus the 50 calories per cookie of the original.
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Cruise, 23, stepped out to attend the Tyler Shields' Decadence exhibition at London's Maddox Gallery, marking her first high-profile event since marrying her IT consultant husband in a private ceremony in September.
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Like its scriptwriters, Uncharted 4 artists have learned a fine touch is often superior to flash and decadence, letting their landscapes be void of business save for a selective inclusion of small details.
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Still, it was from the late-nineteenth-century cult of decadence that the first seeds of modernism germinated; and in Pessoa the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth is fascinatingly visible.
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In 1997, it started to be served at Disney World — but it truly became an inescapable icon of chocolatey decadence for the masses when Chilis added it to its menu nationwide in 1998.
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"What this has revealed is a state of total decadence, and a total insouciance on the part of the elected officials," said Patrick Lacoste, head of an activist group, Center-City for Everybody.
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Hung at the Guggenheim against deep carmine walls, and with Wagner's "Parsifal" overture occasionally blasting from speakers overhead, "Mystical Symbolism" goes all in on the decadence of the Salon de la Rose+Croix.
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The shows have very different aesthetics—severed heads versus fedoras—but they share a chill, nonjudgmental air of decadence, a native flexibility about the joyful aspects of being drawn to the dark side.
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For the second year, the party will take over the entire ground and lower ground floors of the hotel, where guests can expect a night of live music, DJs, dining, dancing, and decadence.
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It was a spirit that continued to guide his photography when he moved to New York in 703, just as the city reached new heights of decadence just before the advent of AIDS.
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The free-wheeling Fitzgeralds have always been a source of fascination, and producers Nicole Yorkin and Dawn Prestwich -- working from the Zelda-centric book "Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" -- revel in their decadence.
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And with decent honesty, he acknowledges that the biggest challenge to Christianity's future may come not from the decadence and hostility of a secular world, but from things that have happened inside its walls.
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It wasn't so bad that I thought I might get sick while barreling down I-95 later, it just tasted more like a chewy, cheap fish sandwich, with none of the decadence of lobster.
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Violence was not merely the method through which revolution would be accomplished; it was valuable in and of itself, providing supporters with powerful 'bonding' experiences and 'cleansing' the nation of its weaknesses and decadence.
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Violence was not merely the method through which revolution would be accomplished; it was valuable in and of itself, providing supporters with powerful "bonding" experiences and "cleansing" the nation of its weaknesses and decadence.
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Decadence was founded on an impertinent reversal of the values of the time: in place of hard work and moral earnestness, writers like Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysmans elevated imaginative indolence and provocative paradox.
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Today glass bricks are most closely associated with the decadence of 1980s architecture, which channeled the elegance and streamlined surfaces of Art Deco — an '113s callback to the retro future imagined in the '20s.
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In essence, they were a perfect warm-up for the 1980s and 90s New York club scene, a place of decadence, excess, and ultimately tragedy, as the Aids epidemic ravaged the city's queer communities.
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A country so intensely suspicious about its leaders, so wide-eyed in its willingness to believe the worst, so thirsty for proof of betrayal and decadence, is not a country in a good place.
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We like to describe scallops as "sea marshmallows"; they're the perfect bite of decadence, just the right balance of airy and fatty to make for something more exciting than any old bite of fish.
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"Millennial Woes"—was giving a talk about the movie, suggesting it is a warning against the decadence of the modern world, longing for a purer time for strong, white, male characters such as Withnail.
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A protester took it upon themselves to mark one of the most glaring symbols of contemporary art excess and decadence — Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet at the Guggenheim Museum — with a "Decolonize This Place" sticker.
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By "decadence" he means a kind of cultural exhaustion and world-weariness he senses in our time and that worries him precisely because it seems to be sustainable rather than a prelude to collapse.
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"Though the film's portrait of Western decadence is laid on with a trowel, it's also pretty funny," Vincent Canby wrote when "Fatherland," then titled "Singing the Blues in Red," opened in New York in 1988.
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The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark In this debut novel from Anna Smith Spark, the Yellow Empire is on the verge of invasion, aided by decadence that has made its citizens vulnerable.
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An untiring breed of musical ambrosia, its genealogy extends from slowburners like Janet Jackson's "That's The Way Love Goes" (1993) to the arena-scale decadence of Rihanna's "Umbrella" (2007) and Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" (2010).
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"I think Heidi's whole business was about—I mean, there's a reason why they're called hookers, because they're trying to hook somebody into that mirage of decadence and that mirage of being important," says Wasilevich.
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This tower of decadence is the embodiment of French joie de vivre, and the ultimate comfort food you wish your mother made you while you were growing up, if only you grew up in France.
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This is reaffirmed, post-decadence, when I stop in the sightseer lounge and discover the rumors about the big windows are true and the next 47 hours are probably going to be a bloody treat.
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The use of private jets in particular has become a hot topic since the financial crisis, when the lavish spending of CEOs became an example of the decadence enjoyed by executives whose companies had cratered.
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I left the stall, looking back one last time at the decadence I was about to leave behind, and slid back down the stairs, still no closer to the sweet release of sleep's warming embrace.
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When: Friday June 24, 11PM-5AMWhere: The Gateway, 10001 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11221More info What: Bollywood decadence is going down at the eighth edition of Hot Pink Parade party on Friday in Hell's Kitchen.
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Opper chose to paint as if art history was a long game, which calls to mind an idea Jacques Barzun floated in his summary volume, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.
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Even so, makeup tends to be minimal or nonexistent and people generally dress conservatively, even at amusement parks and dolphin shows; there was no sign of bluejeans, thought to be a sign of Western decadence.
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Beneath those lofty peaks, however, stretches a city mired in violence, decadence, and cupidity, where nearly half of its 2100 million residents live in poverty while an infinitesimal percentage enjoys wealth on an appalling scale.
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" So she finds decadence by compulsively seducing strangers, co-workers and acquaintances, loathing the sex but finding comfort in the immediate aftermath, when she is "suspended between two worlds, the mistress of the present tense.
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And now that aspirant — who last year acquired the British accessories house Jimmy Choo — is swallowing up one of the last of the independent Italian houses, known for its baroque decadence and pop culture presence.
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So you can even build a case for decadence, not as a falling-off or disappointing end, but as a healthy balance between the misery of poverty and the dangers of growth for growth's sake.
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So you can even build a case for decadence, not as a falling-off or disappointing end, but as a healthy balance between the misery of poverty and the dangers of growth for growth's sake.
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Instead of ensuring that organisms are on an inexorable path to self-improvement, mate choice can drive a species into what I call maladaptive decadence — a decline in survival and fecundity of the entire species.
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Some of the decadence of the magazine certainly bled into the clubs, but Mr. Hefner sought to make them less risqué, said Patty Farmer, an entertainment historian who has written books about Playboy and the clubs.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 28883) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 223) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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This wasn't frivolous glamour though, but a dark take on the decadence of the time; models wore milky gray contact lenses, dark shadow in the corners of their eyes, and rubber gloves reaching beyond the elbow.
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Layering in the textile's signature jewel-tone shades, our velvet-lashes technique amplifies your go-to beauty basics with autumn's decadence and adds a pop of fall color worthy of all our pumpkin-spiced dreams. Bonus?
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He's filled with barely contained rage which he periodically releases in angry diatribes about the decadence of New York and in highly kinetic fight scenes where he shows the results of his extreme devotion to training.
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It's also worth mentioning that the Catholic aesthetic, for a variety of reasons, has also had a lot of overlap with the queer aesthetic, something noted by critic Hanson Ellis in his book Decadence and Catholicism.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (closes on Saturday) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 33) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 9212) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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"Usually I'm so blinkered when I approach work, but these were done for fun," said Ms. Mann, who thinks her work shares with Twombly's a kind of Southern melancholy or "moldering decadence," as she put it.
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He once memorably described his 20s as "gay hell": a haze of alcohol and drug abuse, anonymous sex and emotional nihilism, which he touted obliquely in songs like "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," his ode to decadence.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 23370) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 30) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 23) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (through April 220888) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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" Sahota takes it further in "The Year of the Runaways": "What decadence this belonging rubbish was, what time the rich must have if they could sit around and weave great worries out of such threadbare things.
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The decadence of 1962 Hollywood — not to mention Feud's stunning costume and production design — allows him to luxuriate in the richest details while telling stories about high glamor and the wasted scraps it inevitably leaves behind.
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As for the massive scale Schnabel worked on, and his use of uneven, unconventional surfaces, Frank Stella set the precedent, while his theatrical decadence owed more than a little something to Alfonso Ossorio and Michael Tracy.
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Goth is as much a fashion aesthetic as a musical one, and Leipzig will be awash in heavily made-up vampires, pagans, Victorians and pretty much anything to do with horror, decadence and the dark side.
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Sorrentino, who has plumbed the decadence of the Roman elite in "The Great Beauty" and splashed around in Vatican intrigue in "The Young Pope," shows more interest in the theater of politics than in its substance.
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Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 'Gilded Age Glamour: Fashions From the Bartow-Pell Collection' (Saturday through April 2244) On a superficial level, this exhibition's display of clothing and fashion illustrations is about the decadence of the Gilded Age.
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To them, the "illiberal" autocrats across the Atlantic are fast becoming the new standard-bearers in a global battle for traditional values, an antidote to what they see as rising decadence and moral relativism in the West.
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Roosevelt helped popularize eugenicist sentiments with a famous 1902 letter (which was reprinted in a book that same year), warning of the dangers of "race suicide" if "decadence and corruption" leads successful Americans to not have children.
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The Royal Palms Resort, the game's introductory area, is a beautiful juxtaposition to what waits beyond it, where the wealth, decadence and Westernization that infects all overseas hubs of luxury tourism is so very far from relevant.
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Mathilde is given a portal to her desired life of decadence when her husband, a lowly clerk, secures entree to a high-profile ball; her metamorphosis is made complete by the borrowing of a glittering diamond necklace.
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As with other features of our decadence, a Pax Americana sustained by indefinite police actions, indefinitely frozen conflicts and indefinite postponements of defeat is hardly the worst geopolitical scenario imaginable, and definitely preferable to certain bloodier alternatives.
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Rather, decadence is the feeling that America isn't working anymore, and that the nation has lost the can-do, problem-solving spirit that won World War II, landed humans on the moon, and enacted Social Security and Medicare.
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The video was a wonderful ode to the decadence of the decade and the trio looked the part of a funkadelic band, but according to Migos' stylist, Zoe Costello, there wasn't time for vision boards and custom looks.
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For as many changes, big and small, as Preacher has made to the comics, it couldn't escape that the books are, fundamentally, a road trip story about examining America and Christianity at the heights of decadence for both.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety The fascination of this is that instead of satirizing Ally's journey as some sort of plunge into synthetic marketing decadence, the movie says, in essence: This is the new landscape, same as the old landscape.
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Almost like Max Ernst's bird paintings bursting into three-dimensional reality, there is an air of mystery and decadence to Levisse's exhibition, which also features sculptural masks and kaleidoscopic wallpaper, creating an immersive multimedia environment inside the gallery.
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But while Vivian finds the freedom and decadence of her new life exhilarating, she's also becoming more and more selfish, and we can tell from the mounting tension of her narration that she'll soon make a terrible mistake.
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For Dzhibladze, Putin has been able to rally his country by focusing on "the enemy from without" — the West — as well as the "enemy from within": gays, who are widely seen as symptomatic of Western decadence or vice.
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Especially because — let's be completely blunt here — Moore's entire record of writings and arguments are hackish, his prominence a testament to cable-television's appetite for partisans with think-tank titles, and those titles a testament to conservatism's decadence.
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The correct answer might be nobody, because history doesn't actually repeat or mirror or rhyme that simply, and because the decadence of American institutions threatens to make every president effectively disjunctive, keeping real realignment forever out of reach.
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To travel from one empire in decline to countries whose golden eras were over 100 years in the past is to accept — and if possible, enjoy — the undeniable fact that disorientation can be its own kind of decadence.
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Adnan Khashoggi, the flamboyant Saudi arms trader who rose to spectacular wealth in the 1970s and 20093s while treating the world to displays of decadence breathtaking even by the standards of that era, died on Tuesday in London.
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The 1970s were perhaps the grossest chapter of recorded time, an era wherein the previous decade's flower power rotted on the vine and a politically engaged, protest-minded youth culture dissolved into an atmosphere of distinctly hostile decadence.
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Twenty four-karat toilets in China, a Birkin bag party in Mexico, debutante balls in Moscow that are sponsored by Maserati: It may be easy to spot the extreme decadence in places where luxury consumption is relatively novel.
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"Miami doesn't have the due-diligence culture like Wall Street and New York," said Roben Farzad, author of Hotel Scarface, a tome about the decadence and characters of The Mutiny Hotel in Miami during the Cocaine Cowboys era.
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This kind of costume decadence teeters on Studio 54 kitsch, but after seasons of enforced sportiness, there's something enticing about the idea of clothes meant for no organized aerobic activity whatsoever, save writhing in the strobe lights after dark.
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Mr. Slimane, a devout student of the YSL archives, had sealed his standing in the style-o-sphere by spiking such Saint Laurent classics with a touch of L.A. decadence and exporting that look to the runways of Paris.
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Weiner is so clearly trying to use The Romanoffs to say something — about modern decadence, about inequality, about what it means to cling desperately to an identity you might not have any claim to, and maybe even about whiteness.
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He devotes too much space to subjects that catch his imagination, and says too little about an important part of Britain's decadence: the way its obsession with the fripperies of aristocratic life diverted its attention from industry and commerce.
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One example of that hypocrisy was the way in which the Romanian Communist regime treated billiards—a game it considered a symbol of Western decadence, and so banned for normal Romanians, while dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu continued to play away.
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Witness Dries Van Noten's move to a darker side, which began as an exploration of the relationship between Marchesa Luisa Casati and Gabriele d'Annunzio, and then took off into questions of gender identity, decadence and the definition of luxury.
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JON PARELES Ah, the decadence: Lana del Rey and the Weeknd get together to "dance on the H of the Hollywood sign," cooing, "Take off all your clothes" to each other (although in the video they stay quite modest).
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It is divided between two cities: The Crystarium—a sanctuary city and your group's central hub—and Eulmore, the city of pleasures where the rich live in decadence at the end of days at the benefit of the poor.
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" In a way, Discotex is concerned with the celebration of decadence, a thing that, according to her, is "one of the things that art must do: [it must] reevaluate a place, an object, and the feelings related to it.
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But the tune's real star is Burden's mercurial voice, which you may recognize from her backup work with Warpaint's Jennylee, sliding between 60s pop decadence and Aladdin Sane fever dream before it all blows up into a grunge bridge.
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Given the attention to detail and flair for decadence (as far as the great outdoors is concerned), it makes sense that the resort that claims to have coined the term "glamping" is pushing a new high-end concept: s'moreology.
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It's possible to read all this—the circular self-obsessions, the cretinous sophistication, the various blinkered fixations that make it all so denuded and arch and inhuman—as symptoms of a broader and possibly terminal decadence loose in the culture.
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Founded in 1999, Simmons' Baby Phat became, specifically for women of color, a cultural symbol for the decadence, glamour, and sex appeal with her now iconic rhinestone tees, adorably chic feline logo, jaw-dropping magazine ads, and star-studded runway shows.
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New York audiences first became aware of Mr. Rickman as Valmont, the fatally attractive French nobleman in the 1987 production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's 18th-century epistolary novel of decadence and its discontents.
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Perhaps this: The polished nature of Keeping Up With The Kardashians makes the expensive clothes and private jets seem normal, but there's a jarring dissonance between Kylie's laid-back, low-budget filming style and the undeniable decadence of her life.
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But alas, while the trailer promises a romantic comedy-level combo of camaraderie and decadence, there is no set release date for The Wine Show beyond "spring 2016," and that date only applies to UK channels on ITV and ITV4.
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But Terrence Malick's output as a filmmaker has never been described as "obvious", and right from the beginning there's a strange tension between the satire of soulless, Hollywood decadence the film seems to be attempting and the director's own impressionistic tendencies.
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" In another letter to The New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson, he recalls passing the cafe and seeing Orson Welles, presumably in town for the filming of the 1003 film "Black Magic," sitting alone and "reading a book called DECADENCE.
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Consider, as a sign of the party's decadence, how quickly Bob Corker, a card-carrying member of the Republican Party elite — the center-right chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — caved in to this horribly miscast party standard-bearer.
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The more time you spend complaining about a given feature of the political or cultural landscape, the more you can come to take its power and permanence for granted, to imagine that its decadence must be too resilient to overthrow.
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In commemoration, a protester took it upon themselves to mark one of the most glaring symbols of contemporary art excess and decadence — Maurizio Cattelan's gold toilet named "America" (2016), installed at the Guggenheim Museum — with a "Decolonize This Place" sticker.
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Both styles, however different (Schad was an exquisite chronicler of Weimar decadence, while Wilde went after dreamlike, virtuosic mimesis and superficial shocks), were based in an optical examination of the real world, while Graham's work is undeniably a mental projection.
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It transported the biblical story of David to a world that looked a lot like America in 21983, but it was accented with motifs found in dystopian futuristic fantasies, such as a "Hunger Games"-like decadence in the capital city.
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Under crystal chandeliers, Jeremy Scott showed wide-hipped pannier dresses, brocade frock coats and a fairly literal "Let them eat cake" dress made from what looked like frosted pâtisserie tiers; adding to the deluge of decadence were the models' towering hairdos.
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The far right has taken great advantage of this sense of fatigue and has tried to recast this late-liberal, postwar moment as an era of decadence and decline, out of which it alone can lead us, surrounded by blinding light.
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He encouraged his followers to flee large cities and build communes in rural areas where they could separate themselves from the crime and the violence they faced in their old neighborhoods and the decadence that, in his view, pervaded secular society.
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Even the art world, its penchant for certain kinds of decadence notwithstanding, has made efforts to clean house of reported sexual harassers, and, partly as a result, to rectify the ways in which its women have been treated and overlooked.
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Part of what's going on in that text, and really in all of Nietzsche's texts, is a protest against the decadence of democratic culture, and certainly it's hard not to think of Trump in this context when revisiting Nietzsche's ideas. Absolutely.
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Hollywood's portrayal of the quintessential New York teenager is that of decadence and privilege; and while it may make for great entertainment, it isn't exactly an accurate depiction of how the majority of the city's under-20 set acts, talks, or dresses.
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It was a fixture of the one-hour show that takes place three times a night at Robot Restaurant, a kind of eye-melting Japanese dinner theater, a cabaret show of such migraine-inducing decadence that Las Vegas falls silent before it.
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While they were meant to hold something (something the size of a hair elastic, we're guessing), the Valentino pieces actually looked more like jewelry, adding an extra dose of decadence to the already elaborate fantasy gowns crafted from lace and carefully embroidered.
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At a private launch last week, McGrath told a group of editors that the shades in Mothership IV: Decadence (made of golds, blues, and browns) are her "crown jewels" — so it's only right that the packaging is printed with a blinged-out tiara.
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What isn't debatable is the fact that Fyre was the Altamont of our time; a loss of innocence, a point of no return, and a coming to terms with the decadence and false promises of an entire generation, beautifully embodied in a sandwich.
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In I Was / I Am (1973), Hammer recontextualizes an image she so loved to use — a naked 20th-century militant lesbian Amazon — this time borrowing from horror and B-movies, spicing the whole thing up with the cool decadence of marginal cinema.
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The final decision was to spare the collection by dividing it evenly, the more conservative half going to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the more extreme works to the Hermitage (where they would be shown to students as object lessons in bourgeois decadence).
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Their epic, immersive sculptural installation takes the form of a pink-and-white frosted, crystal-encrusted, sharp-toothed temple of decadence, and serves as the sugar-coated setting for a monthlong festival of creative multi-platform self-indulgence they're calling Breaking Bread.
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You might think that none of these things sound like they could possibly mimic the decadence of Doritos dust, but consider this: You can find out in less time than it takes to grab a bag of Cool Ranch from the corner store.
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Our inability to roll out testing rapidly, even when thousands of cases are probably in circulation, owes a lot to the inherent problems of medical bureaucracy and the regulatory state, and to the decadence that afflicts American institutions at almost every level.
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Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation's largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to escape New York City's temptations and decadence, died on Friday in Manhattan.
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Twenty years later — with the production's arrival at the Met, the addition of smartphones for onstage selfies and the relaxation of some aggressive late-'90s shoulder pads — the figures brought to mind by this tale of decadence and self-enrichment have inevitably changed.
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Moore was a sociable but serious boy, and today he remembers the decadence of Mardi Gras less vividly than the disapproval of some of his fellow-Baptists, to whom the debauchery seemed like proof that Catholics didn't take their Bible seriously enough.
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A glossy take on Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary banger, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Cruel Intentions enlists a cast of the era's heavy hitters—including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair—to dramatize this parable of decadence and manipulation.
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I'm not sure where or whether to draw the line, but if the first few Bootleg Series volumes served a useful function, officially releasing music that fans had been passing around for years, the project has long since tipped over into decadence.
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This should have alerted Rubio to something that's been clear to many of us on the outside of Republican politics, looking in: that the rise of Donald Trump is overwhelmingly a function of dynamics within the Republican Party, not of some greater national decadence.
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Gore (in which Scalia joined the Court's conservatives in trampling a heap of judicial norms) or if they now support candidates who would touch off multiple crises on inauguration day by voiding international agreements out of pure partisan spite (another horror show of institutional decadence).
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ACCEPTING the Republican Party's presidential nomination in Cleveland on July 21st, Donald Trump hailed himself as an American Caesar, sacrificing a life of private ease to enter the public arena and save a republic sunk in decadence, and betrayed by its corrupt and mendacious elites.
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The Heian conflation of taste, ethics, and identity, not to mention their preoccupation with sending each other poem fragments like so many text messages and then fretting about not getting replies, wasn't so far off from our own era of late decadence, the 21st century.
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In my reading about that, these depictions of sleeping women seemed to embody the malaise of an entire society that was sated on the comforts of capitalism but alienated from its own wants; a kind of decadence, if you like, but in its worst manifestations.
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Season 2 ended (spoiler alert) with Rath's discovering that the mysterious doctor-mesmerist-lecturer, Schmidt, was actually the brother Rath had abandoned for dead on the battlefield in World War I. Season 3 steams ahead through the oily waters of decadence, anxiety and political violence.
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Mr. Onfray's "Decadence" begins with early Christian history, traverses the French Revolution, then sweeps in the Holocaust, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie, which Mr. Onfray says prefigured the 2015 attacks at the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo.
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The second problem with conservative economic thought is that even aside from its complete lack of policy influence, it's in an advanced state of both intellectual and moral decadence – something that has been obvious for a while, but became utterly clear after the 2008 crisis.
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If everything has gotten lamer and worse since the moon landing, he says, it may be that our society "cannot help tending toward decadence so long as it remains earthbound," and it will take another celestial voyage (or divine intervention) to wake us up.
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Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the governing party, told supporters at a July campaign event staged to look like a family picnic in Kuczki-Kolonia, a village in central Poland, that it was their duty to defend the nation from what he called Western decadence.
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I can perceive all the value systems encoded here: sapped by the torpid decadence of India, with its eternal servitude, Mary can be healed only by contact with the rugged moors and wholesome English Nature, and by learning to respect the robust English working classes.
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They are a throwback, a constant rebuke to the decadence visible in every other American institution (their First Fan's White House very much included), a last bloom of the can-do genius that won us World War II … … sorry, getting a little carried away here.
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Accordingly, she performs with caution; even "Red Bull and Hennessy," whose perfect mechanical keyboard hook and stomping drums capture a buoyant sense of yearning, collapses into bathos when she enunciates "Hennessy" precisely, despairingly, as if the brand were a self-evident symbol of decadence.
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But seven hours of footage, some of which has been made public, finds the FPÖ pair musing on the possibility of building a media landscape modelled on Hungary's, thinking about ways to circumvent party-donation rules, and lamenting the West's "decadence"—before decamping to a nightclub.
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The early gouache, "The Watering Place" (1905-06), and the charcoal drawing "Old Man and Youth" (1906) achieve a tender classicism — Ingres by way of Degas — while the later chalk drawing, "Head of a Woman" (1922), is an intoxicating mix of sculptural rigor and sentimental decadence.
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But more important, the fact that both men are promising the implausible or the impossible — and the fact that Trump is openly contemptuous of our ragged republican norms — is a reminder that there are worse things than decadence, grimmer possibilities for the future than drift and repetition.
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By the turn of the 19th century the machine could be found on beaches across Europe, and reached rare levels of decadence; King Alfonso XIII had a luxury bungalow mounted on rails to allow the royal family to bathe in peace on the shores of San Sebastian.
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Antidotes and Skins, of course, exist as separate pieces of art, and though they found strikingly common ground between vibrant, hedonistic decadence and visions of love, Foals left enough room for the listeners to fit the songs around whatever experiences they had within their own lives.
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"I'm really interested in the disjunctive forces—technological, political, religious—that could bring decadence to an end and usher in either something more frightening—like a landscape ravaged by the coronavirus—or something that looks more like a Renaissance or an Age of Exploration," he says.
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Mr. Trump has built his image on gold-plated decadence and acts of dominance and degradation; in a sexist society, money and power continue to be the blunt masculine equivalents of the more enigmatic female sex appeal (which itself is largely measured and rewarded by men).
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Malafaia, for example, has said things like, "No human being has absolute power over her body," that he loves homosexuals as much as he loves criminals, and that the right to marriage in the US is only another chapter in the moral decadence of the country.
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By the 20th century, the British themselves had got into the habit of admiring the Wahhabis and those who appeared to be their Indian followers, whom they saw as the Protestants of Islam out to destroy the decadence and superstition of their corrupt and Catholic coreligionists.
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Matthew Yokobosky, the curator who organized David Bowie is, has now created Studio 54: Night Magic, an inquiry into the midtown Manhattan nightclub that opened in 1977 and closed three years later but still serves, 40-plus years on, as a metonym for glamour, decadence, drugs, celebrity.
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I argued last week that Europe seems closer to such a moment than America — the tensions within its version of the liberal order are more profound, the weak points of its system more obvious, its social-cultural decadence somewhat more advanced, the external pressure more severe.
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Joe Masteroff, the playwright who won a Tony and international renown for "Cabaret," the often-revived 1966 Broadway musical about soulless lovers lost in the decadence of a seedy Berlin nightclub and the rising fascism of prewar Germany, died on Friday in Engelwood, N.J. He was 98.
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Philadelphia—the city still best known for Rocky, terrible sports teams, a rather ambivalent attitude towards the concept of "brotherly love," and unbridled cheese steak sandwich decadence—has long been a breeding ground for shredders, jazz freaks, and grimy, lo-fi punk of the highest order.
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Although people have arguably engaged with campish appearances for centuries — think the over-the-top decadence of Versailles and the reign of Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV — the aesthetic was formally labeled in 1964 when writer Susan Sontag published her essay, "Notes on Camp," in the Partisan Review.
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And yet, despite the music's ubiquity in movies and TV, the singer's discography can be daunting to outsiders—in part because it encompasses such a vast range of stylistic guises, from the sunny 60s pop of his early work to the boozed-up decadence of his mid-70s meltdown.
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Perhaps it is a testament to our own cultural decadence as a society that flourishes on selfies, Instagram and Twitter that now nearly two dozen Americans feel they are qualified to lead the Democratic Party and take back the White House from America's reality-show president, Donald Trump.
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"Thrown Under the Omnibus," by P. J. O'Rourke, who always makes me laugh; "Collected Poems" of E. E. Cummings, which reminds me of how moved I was by his reading at Michigan; "From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life," by my severely missed friend Jacques Barzun.
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The album's hardly a more objective take on decadence than those of his contemporaries, as if such a thing were possible, but by dunking his head in a bubbling swamp of textured sound until any vestige of received songform evaporates, he dodges the convention of identifiable/relatable performative subjectivity.
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If New York Fashion Week can be defined as, at times, too cool for its own good, Milan Fashion Week remains a site of earnest decadence; of showgoers dressed to the nines even early in the morning; of runways boasting sequins, fringe, beading, tulle, and other super-feminine detailing.
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Which is weird, as Mucha's version of Art Nouveau — an inimitable mixture of sumptuous pattern and voluptuous female goddess form — was synonymous with the champagne gaiety and decadence of Belle Époque Paris during a period where technological and aesthetic innovation was only first meeting exotic eclecticism at various World Fairs.
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"I'm all about like cheese and pork belly and decadence, and as a result of the increased vanity of being on camera all the time and working out and eating healthy, I'm developing a fast-casual food concept restaurant that I'm gonna be opening here in New York," he said.
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As a porn star sues President Donald Trump over a deal to keep her quiet about an alleged affair, and his White House is drained of everyone but his family, it's hard not to think that America is entering into a period of decadence that rivals Imperial Rome in luridness.
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By then, the operator could do no wrong at home, and his gauntlet was taken up by pastors, hunters, good ol' boys, and stars of reality shows like Duck Dynasty, whose beards mixed easily with their demagogic condemnations of American cultural decadence, even as they hawked their branded outdoor gear.
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In the current issue of the Weekly Standard, Kristol, shot back in an essay called "Donald and Decadence": There's no reason to believe most D.C. lobbyists would recognize such a threat if it strolled into their well-appointed offices and plopped itself down on one of their well-upholstered settees.
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By all rights, his pictorial illogic should be a source of irritation, but instead of exasperating over the jagged planar disruptions, jarring color, indecipherable cultural appropriations of Japonisme and Chinoiserie, and abrupt transitions between softly molded forms and flat, abstract patterns, we find ourselves surrendering to their stupendously beautiful decadence.
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I spoke to Douthat by phone about the story he wanted to tell in this book, why our dysfunctional politics is a sign of a much deeper problem, if his book is — deep down — an indictment of liberal capitalism, and if he sees any way out of the decadence he diagnoses.
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In particular, the articles by two of the symposium's prominent Christians—Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and R.R. Reno, editor of the journal First Things—create a sense of culture-war deja vu, placing complaints about Trump's vulgarity and decadence front-and-center.
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"I like to apply my fragrance to my hair, on my belly button, behind my ears and behind my knee — and then one spritz of fragrance on my clothes," Lima told The Coveteur at an event celebrating the launch of the new Marc Jacobs Divine Decadence scent (for which she's the brand ambassador).
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Glenn Frey, the guitarist, singer and songwriter who co-founded the Eagles, whose country-tinged, melodic rock tunes, wistful love ballads, philosophical anthems, observations of the outlaw life and testaments to the wages of decadence made it perhaps the leading American band of the 2360s, died on Monday in New York City.
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Like the original viennoiserie, which were painstakingly elegant pastries designed for the Hapsburg court in imperial Vienna that eventually became indispensable to the city's sidewalks, their decadence is matched by the virtuosity of their construction and their element of surprise: They are, then as now, as much for beholding as for eating.
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Yams was a rap fan first, and expressed this through his work with Rocky, who grew to be an avatar for so many of the things that his mentor loved: the stylish decadence of Sean Combs's New York, the muddy starkness of DJ Screw's Houston, the creative fearlessness of Lil B's Internet.
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I mean, we don't exist anymore, we wouldn't be very interested in playing a regular show, and it was the 10-year anniversary of our most well known album [Dancing for Decadence] I guess so it was like, let's do it, let's have some fun and remember how cool it was 10 years ago.
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Bone-thin, dressed in trim gray vests, with a freckled, meditative air, Taylor has a neutrality that highlights the other characters' specificity—masculinity becomes exotic, from the chest-thumping bloviations of the Axe Cap salesman Dollar Bill to the mustache-twirling decadence of Axe's lieutenant, Wags, and the sweet decency of Mafee, Taylor's new partner.
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In the case of the G.O.P., that decadence was the party's "Reagan yesterday, Reagan today, Reagan forever" commitments, which seemed to me misguided but powerfully entrenched, so that an assault on party orthodoxy as frontal as the one that Trump mounted would eventually forge a defensive unity among the party's politicians and ideological enforcers.
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The Weeknd and Ms. Nicks signal the Hollywood decadence that Ms. Del Rey often chronicles and indicts: the Weeknd joining her in "Lust for Life" to sing about dancing on the Hollywood sign and getting naked, and Ms. Nicks collaborating on a piano ballad, "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems," that teases at its own narcissism.
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" The Black Party's theme this year is "SUBmerged," and according to the event's website, it will be centered around a fantastical "world of surging sea levels and drowning cities, [where] rogue submarines break the surface in the black of night to whisk willing survivors to an unregulated subterranean world of brothels, dungeons and decadence lorded over by maritime pirates.
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In keeping with a spirit of tireless reinvention, last season's brazenly transparent gowns gave way to airy but discrete variations in lace or tulle; trouser suits stepped in for the conventional floor-sweeping gown; bared shoulders emerged as bridal wear's latest erogenous zone; and a flurry of boudoir inspirations were sexy without crossing into outright decadence.
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But alongside anger, these images of decadence can also offer the opportunity to imagine a very different world, where wealth is not simply defined by money and possessions but by good health, valuable experiences, and the strength of social relationships, a world where the competitive display of wealth is no longer practiced because luxury is held in common.
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But Ruskin found in art a force equal to the natural and organic worlds it mirrored, and that equilibrium, combined with his conviction that art's meaning must exceed its sensual pleasures, corresponded to Proust's growing unease with fin de siècle decadence, art-for-arts sake, and trendy forms of arty obscurantism – not least his own tendencies toward those excesses.
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DEVOTION AND DECADENCE: THE BERTHOUVILLE TREASURE AND ROMAN LUXURY The largest hoard of ancient silver ever unearthed, found by a Norman farmer in 1830 and amounting to about 50 pounds of statuary devoted to the god Mercury, will be joined in this dazzling show by another 75 objects from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Oct. 17-Jan.
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This bastion of decadence is composed of a crispy, herbaceous chicken tender sandwiched between two halves of a pillowy hot dog bun, and topped with caramelized onions cooked in unnecessary amounts of butter, then finished off with a generous dose of homemade truffle mayo for the umami kicker that you probably don't need but you sooooo want.
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Crossing his long dancer's legs and taking a sip of pinot noir, he basked in his creation, while orchestrating the arrival of a carpaccio of sea scallops with blood orange, cucumber, raw rhubarb, red onion, olive oil, avocado and cilantro shoots (though there were health fanatics present, the chef is a fervent believer in butter and decadence in moderation).
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"Chef Humm is set to return for the second year, serving every decadence from caviar by the gallon to truffle quesadillas and late-night upscale 'Chicken & Waffles', all with the Eleven Madison signature treatment, perfectly paired with magnum after magnum of Jay-Z's prestige Armand de Brignac (Ace of Spades) Brut Gold champagne," the rep explained to Refinery29 via email this afternoon.
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But it did, and in order to remind ourselves of the true meaning of "iconic"—and reclaim some much needed gravitas for the word—we need to travel back to that sublime moment of decadence, when the low-end couture of gossip magazines and pop-world iconography coalesced into what can only be described as one of the modern world's most iconic moments.
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Where Succession's central family is one of coastal decadence, The Righteous Gemstones centers on a family of televangelists whose megachurch empire has earned them considerable sums of money, but who seem to have forgotten the whole "It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven" thing.
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While I wished I could have delighted in this elegant decadence with you at my side, dear reader, the best I can do is regale you with details of the pleasure that betid me: It was a crisp, bright, clean, Granny Smith-apple tartness, which, while I&aposm no sommelier, I could pick out in a blind taste test of 20 offerings.
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In suggesting that this decadence might be sustainable, he remains too star-struck to ask for whom it is sustainable—after all, there are millions of people in the United States for whom the present does not feel in any way decadent, to say nothing of the billions worldwide who have yet to see the benefits of his beloved running water.
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It can be no coincidence that such a piece — which, in its portrayal of destroyed decadence, echoes themes of the collapsed American dream of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby — would find a resting place in a lasting testament to America's industrial prowess built in 1924, a mere two years after the events in the classic American novel take place.
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While giving Vogue a walking tour (and we do mean walking) of the multi-room closet within her Tribeca triplex, the singer showed plenty to reinforce her reputation as the queen of decadence — a room of shoes, trays of sunglasses, beaded gowns on display (or as she puts it, "positioned... simply because they're there"), and yes, eons of clothes, all color coded with backlights.
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Background Reading: Ross on Trump's dangerous underreaction to the coronavirus, American decadence and "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success" David on what you can do to fight coronavirus and the threat it poses to Trump's presidency I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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Taking place in an unspecifiable moment in the 20th century that somehow evokes the late '40s, the mid-70s and the years just before both world wars, Marcello's mock-epic includes documentary footage, wealthy decadence, left-wing politics, angry speeches (in Italian!), beautiful women, square-jawed men, quotations from Baudelaire and the heroic deployment of manual typewriters, hand-rolled cigarettes, ascots and Volvo sedans.
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Douthat hesitates to identify the principal cause of this decadence, though, perhaps in order to avoid committing to a stance that would alienate any faction of his readers: There is room here for both the enemies of cultural Marxism and those who see a specter haunting Europe, to say nothing of those who believe, as Douthat seems to, in something like a Hegelian spirit of the age.
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" Nearly 22019 years later, our decadence had been codified in what observers such as David Foster Wallace calls politically correct English (PCE) in "Consider the Lobster" (2011): "PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is, in fact — in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself — of vastly more help to conservatives and the U.S. status quo.
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On the Italian quartet's new album, Feast for Water (out April 6 via Aural Music), they've embraced those outré elements with a vengeance, dipping further into their well of influences, and doubling down on the jazz on songs like the understated, velvety "Leah," or the meandering, 70s-flecked "Tulsi"—which, in their hands, comes across as smooth but complex, like fine wine, with a dusky, lush tone that feels almost Satanic in its decadence.
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For some, it revealed the dangers of over-civilization: the (relatively) barbarian Germans had proved physically stronger and militarily fiercer than French men softened by modern, urban life and the influence of women … Paintings like Sylvestre's did not offer an accurate representation of the Roman past, but served as vehicles for late nineteenth-century French anxieties about national decadence, the "racial" degeneration of French men, and geopolitical competition in an age of aggressive nationalism.
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The pictures that he took of Stephen Tennant and his other bohemian friends not only mark the beginnings of his formal photography career, but also exist as invaluable documents of this sub-culture of young men and women who in 1920s London lived a life of grandeur and decadence typical of the 1890s — the decade that shocked the rigid Victorian morality with its hubristic aestheticism, sensuality, and transgressive openness to sexual and political experimentation.
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Whether it's Brody Dalle screaming like a cat warning off its neighbors as part of The Distillers, or Sky Ferreira forever toying with the duel concepts of vulnerability and power in her music, or Lana Del Rey singing inward-looking ballads about how fucked up Hollywood decadence can be, the world Courtney created has seeped so deeply into the blood of what we listen to, it's easy to forget it's even there.
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Background Reading: Ross on how Democratic moderates' failure to consolidate helps Sanders and America's social decadence Michelle on Sanders's vulnerabilities and the increasing likelihood that he will win the Democratic nomination David on Sanders's front-runner status, Amy Klobuchar's strengths as a candidate and how Michael Bloomberg could become a bigger contender in the race I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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Elite decadence doesn't seem to be the story Packer set out to tell, but he's too gifted a writer to fail to notice it ("A whole class of people in Washington and New York sent other people's children to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq while they found ways to get rich"), even if his affection for his protagonist means that Holbrooke emerges in this account as flawed, yes, and fallibly human, of course, but ultimately meaning well.
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