But the intellectual has sold him out, has betrayed their common source, has failed in his own job and has brought men to spiritual bankruptcy.

Seeing spiritual bankruptcy in an American Dream that equates success with possessions, they have deliberately decided to earn and spend less.

First there was alcoholism, spiritual bankruptcy and destitution.

He visits courtesans, a sign of "spiritual bankruptcy" and also the dancing girls' performances adds glamour to the film to sustain the audience's film experience.

The fear here being that painting, as a more sincere and visceral medium, is being completely outmoded by the cold 'spiritual bankruptcy' of conceptual art.

In so doing, he exposed its bankruptcy - financial, political, moral and spiritual.

But this good-looking, empty-headed production speaks of spiritual bankruptcy in ways that Ms. Egloff probably never intended.

Nevertheless, Nunez gives us inklings of her artist/intellectual's moral and spiritual bankruptcy.

You will have nothing," she was, in fact, confessing her own spiritual bankruptcy.

She's also an archetype for spiritual bankruptcy.