The slightly decadent, slightly corrupt, too comfortable air of Earth must have had a stifling effect on the man from beyond the stars.

"It's a slightly decadent ball, in sweat pants," said Ms. Clarke, who said she had conceived the setting while reading a biography of Marie Antoinette.

My mother fries her eggplant in crushed Ritz cracker crumbs, which is slightly decadent, but really, really tasty.

He writes imagistic, erotically charged and slightly decadent lyrics, sometimes veering off into Portuguese.

As the flaming caramel rum sauce is poured over the bananas, it hits you that this is slightly decadent.

The '97 vintage - concentrated, spicy, plush, round and satisfying - is slightly decadent in an autumnal way.

Put him in a satin vest, a waistcoat, breeches, and leggings, and he might have been Blue Boy, grown slightly decadent.

It also suggests that today's art is unusually obsessed with youth and a slightly decadent glamour and that these preoccupations have a history.

Even the best of these, though, have a parochial, slightly decadent feeling, and the admiration that greets them here tends to be subdued and respectful.

Contemporary perfume developers revisiting the past include Marc Jacobs, whose signature scent, a slightly decadent, gardenia-laced confection, might have been swiped from Hedy Lamarr.