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Despite the mention of a lack of cream, I don't see how anybody reading that could help but think that Turtle Mountain Purely Decadent is ice cream.
Archive 2007-05-01 Steve Carper 2007
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Despite the mention of a lack of cream, I don't see how anybody reading that could help but think that Turtle Mountain Purely Decadent is ice cream.
Turtle Mountain Adds New Dairy-Free Flavors Steve Carper 2007
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In 2008, romance novelist Virginia Henly published a novel called The Decadent Duke, about Georgy, Francis, 5th Duke of Bedford, and John, 6th Duke of Bedford.
Archive 2009-07-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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The syndicate of its members, known as Decadent Racing, has combined with Mr Sangster and Boujis bosses Carlo Carello and Jake Parkinson-Smith.
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Duane Reade to pick up some Delish chocolate chip cookies, "known in Canada as the President's Choice 'Decadent' cookie."
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"Decadent" art-to oversimplify-was concerned with artifice instead of nature, sensual experience instead of discipline, and experimentation.
Vue Weekly Lucas Crawford / lucas@vueweekly.com 2010
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"Decadent" art-to oversimplify-was concerned with artifice instead of nature, sensual experience instead of discipline, and experimentation.
Vue Weekly Lucas Crawford / lucas@vueweekly.com 2010
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For those of you who haven't read "Decadent", Thompson and his illustrator Ralph Steadman get drunk, mace waiters, and cause general disarray in the vicinity of Derby weekend while chronicling the drunken, good-ol-boy backslapping and wheeler-dealin 'that goes on by the wannabe fatcats in the clubhouse.
unknown title 2009
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"Decadent" forms of art, such as surrealism and expressionism, were banned and, paradoxically for a "revolutionary" society, artists were encouraged to explore edifying themes, often celebrating the simple virtues of labour in factory and field.
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"Decadent," he said, "and you should hardly take it as a compliment, for they anticipate your failure.
The Courts of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1978
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