Example sentences for: baudelaire

How can you use “baudelaire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Victor Hugo, in exile in Guernsey, was writing Les Misérables, while Baudelaire was working on Les Fleurs du Mal, and Offenbach was composing jolly operettas, such as La Belle Hélène.

  • More quintessentially Roman, on nearby Via Condotti, is the city’s oldest coffee house, the 18th-century Caffè Greco — popular, as you’ll see from pictures, busts, and autographs, with Goethe, Byron, Baudelaire, Liszt, Casanova, and Fellini.

  • I recently encountered a somewhat different quotation from the poet Baudelaire:

  • As Baudelaire put it in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life": "All the complicated material conditions to which [dandies] submit, from an impeccable toilette at every hour ...

  • It's like that great comic Baudelaire said about the true ironist: You have to be "a disinterested spectator of yourself," especially when your self is watching its nest egg quickly dwindle to "what the hell, blow it all in one big bash!"


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