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After all, Luce and Emmott do not envision a benign post-American world where rising powers create economic opportunities for all; theirs is a more Spenglerian view of civilizational decline.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2017

"Ta" was used in TS Eliot's The Waste Land as the poet parodied lower-class London speech to suggest, perhaps, a Spenglerian decline in values of English usage.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2013

That is not the Spenglerian pessimism that is so often associated with you.

From Time Magazine Archive

His Time Chart, marking off the exact number of years spent by each culture in each Spenglerian phase of its doomed history, was riddled with errors of fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Spenglerian perspective is based on the assumption of a normal pattern in the growth and decline of civilizations.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott