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Example sentences for: siècle

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(John McCain is a hard case, being conventionally brave and forthright but also kind of a cutup; his crack about propping up a dead Alan Greenspan à la Weekend at Bernie's was very fin de siècle .) However, to give an appropriate nod to the underdogs, the TR model also speaks well for the chances of Gary Bauer, Orrin Hatch, and Alan Keyes (none of whom has an ironic or decadent bone in his body, as far as Chatterbox can see).
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.
Bill Clinton's sexual indiscretions (not to mention his casual perjury about them) make him a very fin de siècle president, though as a policymaker he's clearly superior to William McKinley.
(To sample some bona fide fin de siècle art and poetry, click here.)
And very fin de siècle it is, too.