The Decadence of the People s Car

like numbness or decadence or selfishness.

Those stinkweeds are another sign of your decadence.

What unites them, above all, is a process of competitive decadence.

Poverty, greed and decadence are, in my view, some of the primary causes.

The age of Intellect Ending with bread and circuses in the age of Decadence

You'd have taken it, but only after sneering at the decadence of the rich.

Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the decadence of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.

If that happens, the Russia China debate might be revived, this time as a comparison of competitive decadence.

There are common features to every age of decadence an undiciplined overextended military a conspicouous display of wealth

It holds a particular relevance for women, protesting against the decadence of the bourgeoisie... the role of housewife is all right but...

The political crisis led Indalecio Prieto to say in the Congress of Deputies We are at the most acute period of Spanish decadence.

The model s decadence is now so clear that Raúl Castro s government has begun heavy cuts in Cuba s enormous state bureaucracy and has allowed a limited number of private businesses.

The pope s words suggest that homosexuality is a kind of lifestyle choice, a form of modern decadence a secular, even blasphemous act against God and nature rather than a fact of birth.

Neo conservatives, for their part, see the European malaise as a form of typical Old World decadence, a collective state of nihilism bred by welfare states and soft dependence on hard American power.

In today s supposedly free and democratic Russia, however, Solzhenitsyn is idealized for his nationalism and Orthodox messianism, his contempt for the West s supposed decadence, all messages that Putin s regime proclaims loudly and daily.

The babyboomer generation we're born into this age of decadence, perhaps unwittingly they've broken the unspoken intergenerational contract through unfretted consumerism, spiraling houseprices, and the desire for eternal youth the babyboomers have squandered future generations inheritance

When Mao Zedong purged his most senior Party boss, Liu Shaoqi, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu s wife was paraded through the streets wearing ping pong balls around her neck as a symbol of wicked decadence and extravagance.

And no one wants make accusations of decadence, like one of the employees of the university did who argued with my graduate friend when she asked for her picture on her certificate to be as she is in reality, with uncovered hair.

I remember when I started practicing Buddhism 14 years ago, and I was told that the end of this practice was to be happy, I said, How could you be happy and live in this world of suffering and live in this world of pain? I mistook happiness for a lot of other things, like numbness or decadence or selfishness.