Words similar to siècle
Example sentences for: siècle
How can you use “siècle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
And very fin de siècle it is, too.
(Chatterbox is not so fin de siècle as to contemplate that this president would take office as Roosevelt did--succeeding a predecessor who dies in office.)
By clicking on the various section headings, you can get a drop-down list of their current contents and go directly to any article or feature in Slate . We will soon be adding this bar at the bottom of pages, too (in the optimistic belief that even in fin de siècle America, some people will a] finish reading an article and b] wish to read another).
It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.
Or it may be a symptom of our present obsession with childhood and children--the simultaneous detonation of the postwar baby boom and the fin de siècle baby boom.