For some time afterwards he remained true to his humble origins in his opinions despite an ever grander and more decadent style of life.

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This was the decadent late stage of Neolithic life.

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The author, Paul French, vividly reconstructs her life, emphasising both the elegant and decadent.

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At one point, when Bruce adopts the Eurotrashy role of a decadent playboy, Mr. Bale shows some genuinely amusing signs of life, but the decadence is soon lost or set aside in favor of less flamboyant moods.

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Murasaki's style became the Japanese model for writing, if not for morality: her hero's active sex life, and the luxury of the ancient court, as she represents it, were deplored as decadent by Japanese purists into the 20th century.

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