Decadence

Mistaking cadenza with decadence would be a great mistake.

Modern dances? It's not dancing anymore, it's decadence.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

It's great that you like to be good, to grow, to evolve; however, doing it at the cost of others or undervaluing his or her work is unforgivable. Who commits it is, in fact, in decadence rather than ascension.

All acts against nature are decadence. The most decadent of men are priests: they teach that which is against nature. Debating isn't effective against priests, only prison is.

Italian decadence may have its origins in the Middle Ages.

Both Decadence and Aestheticism, as intellectual movements, have fallen into the nadir of oblivion, and the dust lies heavy upon them, but they left a little leaven to lighten the heavy inertness of correct and academic literature; and now Symbolism, a greater movement than either, is in the ascendant, giving another turn to the wheel, and to all who think deeply about such matters it seems as though Symbolist literature is to be the literature of the future.

His sources of instruction had not been of the best and he worked in an atmosphere tainted with artistic and political decadence.

Mixing up cadence and decadence would be a big mistake.

Decadence always arrives sooner or later.