Example sentences for: late-

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  • Some of them recognized it: The Moodies responded with "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band"; Some didn't: My personal favorite example of late-'60s pretension will always be Blood Sweat and Tears' "Symphony for the Devil/Sympathy for the Devil."

  • of, relating to, characteristic of, or resembling the late-19 th -century literary and artistic climate of sophistication, escapism, extreme aestheticism, world-weariness, and fashionable despair.

  • Dumping their tax-deductible loot by the millions, the corporations (Archer Daniels Midland, GE, Mobil, Exxon, Chevron, Dupont, Metropolitan Life) encouraged the sort of shows only a member of the Business Roundtable could love: centrist news programs, conservative talk shows, Wall Street advice shows, lions-of-the-Serengeti documentaries, and historical dramas that set all human conflict in late-19 th -century England.

  • Former New York magazine editor, Spy co-founder, and current New Yorker writer Kurt Andersen's satire of late-'90s culture wins good reviews, but many carp about its weaknesses.

  • It was a bit of late Romanticism, which flourished in English literature, then in German cinema, and reached an apogee of acceptance in 1973 in a stylish volume by Angelo Maria Ripellino called, after a phrase by André Breton, Magic Prague . But the mystic interpretation is exactly what Peter Demetz, a professor of German at Yale, wishes to counter in his own Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes From the Life of a European City . Demetz's Prague is the city of the late-16 th century Emperor Rudolf II (a scientific-minded man, though he did go mad at the end) and the 19 th century logician Bernard Bolzano.


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